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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
39
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-9-21
pubmed:abstractText
Epirubicin has been widely used for chemotherapeutic treatment of gastric cancer; however, intrinsic and acquired chemoresistance remains an obstacle to successful management. The mechanisms underlying epirubicin resistance are still not well defined. Here we report the construction and application of a partially randomized retrovirus library of 4 x 10(6) small interfering RNAs to identify novel genes whose suppression confers epirubicin resistance in gastric cancer cells SGC7901. From 12 resistant cell colonies, two small interfering RNAs targeting GAS1 (growth arrest-specific 1) and PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog), respectively, were identified and validated. We identified a previously unrecognized chemoresistance role for GAS1. GAS1 suppression resulted in significant epirubicin resistance and cross-resistance to 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin in various gastric cancer cell lines. GAS1 suppression promoted multidrug resistance through apoptosis inhibition, partially by up-regulating the Bcl-2/Bax ratio that was abolished by Bcl-2 inhibition. GAS1 suppression induced chemoresistance partially by increasing drug efflux in an ATP-binding cassette transporter and drug-dependent manner. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and BCRP (breast cancer resistance protein) but not MRP-1 were up-regulated, and targeted knockdown of P-gp and BCRP could partially reverse GAS1 suppression-induced epirubicin resistance. Verapamil, a P-gp inhibitor, could reverse P-gp substrate (epirubicin) but not non-P-gp substrate (5-fluorouracil and cisplatin) resistance in GAS1-suppressed gastric cancer cells. BCRP down-regulation could partially reverse 5-fluorouracil but not cisplatin resistance induced by GAS1 suppression, suggesting 5-fluorouracil but not cisplatin was a BCRP substrate. These results suggest that GAS1 might be a target to overcome multidrug resistance and provide a novel approach to identifying candidate genes that suppress chemoresistance of gastric cancers.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
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pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1083-351X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
284
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
26273-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19638344-ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Antibiotics, Antineoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Cell Cycle Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Cisplatin, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Drug Resistance, Multiple, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Epirubicin, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Fluorouracil, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-GPI-Linked Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-P-Glycoprotein, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-PTEN Phosphohydrolase, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-RNA, Small Interfering, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Stomach Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:19638344-bcl-2-Associated X Protein
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of GAS1 as an epirubicin resistance-related gene in human gastric cancer cells with a partially randomized small interfering RNA library.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't