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Characterization of a Human Colorectal Carcinoma Cell Line with Acquired Resistance to Flavopiridol

Victoria Smith, Florence Raynaud, Paul Workman and Lloyd R. Kelland
Molecular Pharmacology November 2001, 60 (5) 885-893; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.60.5.885
Victoria Smith
CRC Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Florence Raynaud
CRC Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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CRC Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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CRC Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Flavopiridol is a broad-spectrum inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) and represents the first in this anticancer class to enter clinical trials. In anticipation of the likelihood that, as with other cancer drugs, acquired resistance may limit the drug's efficacy, an acquired resistance model has been established by in vitro drug exposure of the human colon carcinoma cell line HCT116. This stably resistant line, possessing 8-fold resistance to flavopiridol, showed a lack of cross-resistance to the anticancer agents etoposide, doxorubicin, paclitaxel, topotecan, and cisplatin, and notably to other chemical classes of cdk inhibitors: the aminopurines roscovitine and purvalanol A, 9-nitropaullone, and hymenialdisine. Resistance did not seem to be related to differences in the levels of multidrug resistance drug efflux proteins, P-glycoprotein, and MRP1. Moreover, there were no changes in overall drug accumulation between the resistant and sensitive cell lines. Flavopiridol induced cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and inhibition of retinoblastoma gene product phosphorylation on serine 780 in both parental and resistant lines, but the latter required 8-fold higher concentrations to achieve these effects. Cyclin E protein levels and cyclin E-associated kinase activity were increased in the resistant line, suggesting that overexpression of cyclin E may be the mechanism of resistance to flavopiridol. However, transfection of cyclin E to increase expression of this protein did not result in an increase in resistance to flavopiridol. Thus, up-regulation of cyclin E alone does not seem to cause resistance to this cdk inhibitor.

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