Multidrug resistance (mdr) genes in human cancer.
Multidrug resistance (mdr) genes in human cancer.
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DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1991.152
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发表时间:
1991-05
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Herweijer H
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作者:
Nooter K;Herweijer H
Results of treatment with anticancer agents have steadily improved over the years following the introduction of more effective drugs and theestablishment of better designed chemotherapy strategies. Still, chemotherapy failure due to cellular drug resistance remains a major problem in most cancer patients. Using cell lines made resistant to anticancer agents, several types of drug resistance have been character-ised, among which are alterations in target proteins (Cabral et al., 1980; Flintoff & Essani, 1980), carrier mediated drug uptake (Redwood & Colvin, 1980; Sirotnak et al., 1981), cellular drug metabolism (Aronow et al., 1984) and cellular repair mechanisms (Bedford & Fox, 1982). A very intriguing development in drug resistance research is the discovery of the phenomenon of multidrug resistance (MDR)(Bradley et al., 1988; van der Bliek & Borst, 1989). In MDR cells, selection for resistance to'naturally occurring'drugs, eg anthracyclines, vinca alkaloids, podo-phyllotoxins, and colchicine, results in the development of cross-resistance to other members of the MDR drug family (Bech-Hansen et al., 1976; Dan0, 1972; Inaba & Johnson, 1977; Skovsgaard, 1978). The MDR related drugs are struc-turally dissimilar and have different intracellular targets. What these drugs have in common is thatthey are lipophilic compounds derived from various natural products. In gen-eral, MDR cells are not cross-resistant to alkylating agents (eg chlorambucil and cyclophosphamide), antimetabolites (eg cytarabine, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil), or cis-platin.A striking feature of the classical MDR phenotype is its reduced ability to accumulate drugs, as compared to the parent cell lines. This reduced drug accumulation is most likely the main cause of multidrug resistance (Dan0, 1973; Kessel & Bosmann, 1970; Riehm & Biedler, 1972; Sirotnak et al., 1986, among other references). It is assumed that the reduced drug accumulation is due to activity of an energy dependent unidirectional drug efflux pump with broad sub-strate specificity. This drug pump is composed of a trans-membrane glycoprotein (P-glycoprotein) with a molecular weight of 170 kD (Chen et al., 1986; Gerlach et al., 1986; Gros et al., 1986). It uses energy in the form of ATP to transport drugs through a channel formed by the transmem-brane segments (Hamada & Tsuruo, 1988; Horio et al., 1988).