Does the BCR/ABL-mediated increase in the efficacy of DNA repair play a role in the drug resistance of cancer cells?
Does the BCR/ABL-mediated increase in the efficacy of DNA repair play a role in the drug resistance of cancer cells?
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DOI:
10.1006/cbir.2002.0865
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发表时间:
2002-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Skórski, T
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作者:
Majsterek, I;Blasiak, J;Skórski, T
BCR/ABL oncogenic tyrosine kinase is responsible for the pathogenesis of Philadelphia chromosome-positive human leukemia and is generated by a specific reciprocal chromosome translocation, t(9;22)(q34 - ;q11 +. We examined the role of DNA repair in therapeutic drug resistance to idarubicin in the murine pro-B lymphoid cell line BaF3 and its BCR/ABL-transformed clone. These cells can be used as models of human leukemias. The MTT assay revealed that BCR/ABL-transformed cells displayed resistance to idarubicin in the range 0.3-0.5 muM, compared with the control BaF3 cells. Idarubicin at 0.3 and 1 muM induced DNA damage in the form of strand-breaks and/or alkali labile sites in both transformed and control cells in comet assays. The BCR/ABL-transformed cells needed only 60 min to remove damage to their DNA, whereas controls took 120 min. We hypothesize that this observed increase in the efficacy of repair in BCR/ABL-positive cells is involved in their resistance to idarubicin. (C) 2002 Academic Press Ltd. All rights reserved.