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Title: Overexpression of S100A4 in human cancer cell lines resistant to methotrexate
Author: Mencía Trinchant, Núria
Selga i Coma, Elisabet
Rico, Isabel
Almagro García, Ma. Cristina de
Villalobos Alberú, Xenia
Ramírez, Sara
Adan, Jaume
Hernández, José Luis
Noé Mata, Verónica
Ciudad i Gómez, Carlos Julián
Keywords: Metotrexat
Resistència als medicaments
Cèl·lules canceroses
Càncer
Quimioteràpia
Methotrexate
Resistència als medicaments
Cancer cells
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2010
Publisher: BioMed Central
Abstract: Background: Methotrexate is a chemotherapeutic drug that is used in therapy of a wide variety of cancers. The efficiency of treatment with this drug is compromised by the appearance of resistance. Combination treatments of MTX with other drugs that could modulate the expression of genes involved in MTX resistance would be an adequate strategy to prevent the development of this resistance. Methods: The differential expression pattern between sensitive and MTX-resistant cells was determined by whole human genome microarrays and analyzed with the GeneSpring GX software package. A global comparison of all the studied cell lines was performed in order to find out differentially expressed genes in the majority of the MTX-resistant cells. S100A4 mRNA and protein levels were determined by RT-Real-Time PCR and Western blot, respectively. Functional validations of S100A4 were performed either by transfection of an expression vector for S100A4 or a siRNA against S100A4. Transfection of an expression vector encoding for beta-catenin was used to inquire for the possible transcriptional regulation of S100A4 through the Wnt pathway. Results S100A4 is overexpressed in five out of the seven MTX-resistant cell lines studied. Ectopic overexpression of this gene in HT29 sensitive cells augmented both the intracellular and extracellular S100A4 protein levels and caused desensitization toward MTX. siRNA against S100A4 decreased the levels of this protein and caused a chemosensitization in combined treatments with MTX. beta-catenin overexpression experiments support a possible involvement of the Wnt signaling pathway in S100A4 transcriptional regulation in HT29 cells. Conclusions: S100A4 is overexpressed in many MTX-resistant cells. S100A4 overexpression decreases the sensitivity of HT29 colon cancer human cells to MTX, whereas its knockdown causes chemosensitization toward MTX. Both approaches highlight a role for S100A4 in MTX resistance.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-250
It is part of: BMC Cancer 2010, 10:250, p. 1-13
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/13643
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-250
ISSN: 1471-2407
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