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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-1
pubmed:abstractText
Lenalidomide plays an important role in our chemotherapeutic armamentarium against multiple myeloma, in part by exerting direct anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects. Unfortunately, long-term exposure leads to the development of drug resistance through unknown mechanisms, and we therefore sought to identify pathways that could be responsible for this phenotype. Chronic drug exposure produced myeloma cell lines that were tolerant of the direct effects of lenalidomide, with a degree of resistance of up to 2,500-fold. Gene expression profiling and pathway analysis identified dysregulation of the Wnt/?-catenin pathway as a consistent change across four independent cell isolates, and a pair of primary plasma cell samples. Acute drug treatment also increased ?-catenin transcription by 3-fold or more, and both acute and chronic exposure resulted in enhanced accumulation of ?-catenin protein by up to 20-fold or more. This produced Wnt/?-catenin pathway activation, as judged by increased activity of a lymphoid enhancer factor/T-cell factor promoter reporter, and enhanced accumulation of the downstream targets cyclin D1 and c-Myc. Components of the ?-catenin destruction complex were also impacted by lenalidomide, which suppressed casein kinase 1? expression while augmenting glycogen synthase kinase 3?/? phosphorylation. Stimulation of Wnt/?-catenin signaling with recombinant Wnt-3a, or by overexpression of ?-catenin, reduced the anti-proliferative activity of lenalidomide. Conversely, suppression of ?-catenin with small hairpin RNAs restored plasma cell sensitivity to lenalidomide. Together, these findings support the hypothesis that lenalidomide mediates activation of Wnt/?-catenin signaling in plasma cells as a mechanism of inducible chemoresistance through effects at the transcriptional and post-translational levels.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antineoplastic Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CCND1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Casein Kinase Ialpha, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclin D1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MYC protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Thalidomide, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/WNT3A protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Wnt Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Wnt3 Protein, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Wnt3A Protein, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta Catenin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/glycogen synthase kinase 3 alpha, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/lenalidomide
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1083-351X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
286
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11009-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Casein Kinase Ialpha, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Cyclin D1, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Multiple Myeloma, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Plasma Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Thalidomide, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Wnt Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Wnt3 Protein, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-Wnt3A Protein, pubmed-meshheading:21189262-beta Catenin
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Evidence of a role for activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in the resistance of plasma cells to lenalidomide.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural