Drug Resistance Updates 32 (2017) 23–46
Drug Resistance Updates 32 (2017) 23–46 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Drug Resistance Updates journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/drup Not only P-glycoprotein: Amplification of the ABCB1-containing MARK chromosome region 7q21 confers multidrug resistance upon cancer cells by coordinated overexpression of an assortment of resistance-related proteins ⁎ ⁎ Ilaria Genovesea,1, Andrea Ilarib,1, Yehuda G. Assarafc,1, Francesco Fazid, ,1, Gianni Colottib, ,1 a Dept. Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy b Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Italian National Research Council (IBPM-CNR), c/o Dept. Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy c The Fred Wyszkowski Cancer Research Lab, Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel d Dept. Anatomical, Histological, Forensic & Orthopedic Sciences, Section of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University, Via A. Scarpa 14-16, 00161 Rome, Italy ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: The development of drug resistance continues to be a dominant hindrance toward curative cancer treatment. ABC transporters Overexpression of a wide-spectrum of ATP-dependent efflux pumps, and in particular of ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein P-glycoprotein (P-gp) or MDR1) is a well-known resistance mechanism for a plethora of cancer chemotherapeutics including for ex- Cancer ample taxenes, anthracyclines, Vinca alkaloids, and epipodopyllotoxins, demonstrated by a large array of pub- Chemotherapeutic drugs lished papers, both in tumor cell lines and in a variety of tumors, including various solid tumors and hemato- Multidrug resistance logical malignancies. Upon repeated or even single dose treatment of cultured tumor cells or tumors in vivo with 7q21 amplicon Sorcin anti-tumor agents such as paclitaxel and doxorubicin, increased ABCB1 copy number has been demonstrated, resulting from chromosomal amplification events at 7q11.2-21 locus, leading to marked P-glycoprotein over- expression, and multidrug resistance (MDR).
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