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Non-P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug-resistant human KB cells selected in medium containing adriamycin, cepharanthine, and mezerein

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Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics

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Human epidermoid KB cell lines resistant to high levels of adriamycin, C-A90, C-A120, C-A500, and C-A1000, were isolated in selection medium containing increasing concentrations of adriamycin, 1 μg/ml of cepharanthine, a multidrug-resistance (MDR) reversing agent, and 100 nM of mezerein, a protein kinase C activating agent. One of the adriamycin-resistant KB cell lines, C-A500, was cross-resistant to drugs that typify the classical multidrug resistance phenotype, such as vincristine, actinomycin D, VP-16, and colchicine. The accumulation of adriamycin and vincristine was decreased in C-A500 cells and the efflux of adriamycin from C-A500 was enhanced compared with parental KB-3-1 cells. These adriamycin-resistant KB cells did not contain detectable levels of P-glycoprotein or overexpressMDR1. Multidrug-resistance-associated protein (MRP) andMRP mRNA were expressed in the adriamycin-resistant KB cells, C-A120, C-A500, and C-A1000, but not in parental KB-3-1 and revertant C-AR cells. TheMRP gene was amplified in all the MDR cells that overexpressed MRP mRNA. DNA topoisomerase II levels were markedly decreased in C-A500 and C-A1000 cells but only slightly decreased in C-A120 cells. These results indicate that MRP overexpressed in the resistant cells may be responsible for the reduced accumulation of adriamycin and vincristine and that both the increased expression of MRP and decreased levels of topoisomerase II underlie the drug resistance in C-A120, C-A500, and C-A1000 cell lines.

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    Tomoyuki Sumizawa, Yutaka Chuman, Hidehiro Sakamoto, Kazuchiyo Iemura & Shin-ichi Akiyama

  2. Cancer Research Laboratories, Queen's University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Kurt C. Almquist, Roger G. Deeley & Susan P. C. Cole

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Sumizawa, T., Chuman, Y., Sakamoto, H. et al. Non-P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug-resistant human KB cells selected in medium containing adriamycin, cepharanthine, and mezerein. Somat Cell Mol Genet 20, 423–435 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02257459

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