Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: EC:3.4.23.5 (cathepsin D)
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Adriamycin widely used in the treatment of neoplastic conditions is nephrotoxic. In the present study the protective effect of lipoic acid was investigated in adriamycin-induced nephrotoxicity in adult male albino Wistar rats. Adriamycin-induced nephrotoxicity was characterized by hyperlipidemia, proteinuria, and hypoproteinemia, by decreased activities of the enzymes N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase and cathepsin D, by increased lipid peroxidation and decreases in serum catalase and glutathione activities, and by increased urinary and serum urea, creatinine and urinary glycosaminoglycans. Pretreatment with lipoic acid restored the changes, indicating that lipoic acid is renoprotective in adriamycin nephrotoxicity.
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PMID:The influence of lipoic acid on adriamycin-induced hyperlipidemic nephrotoxicity in rats. 1284 41

The available monolayer culture systems for the study of bone metastases constitute a suboptimal simulation of the in vivo pathophysiology of bone metastases, and therefore, do not provide sufficient information to assess the morphologic evidence of bone reaction to cancer cells, the nature of cell-specific mediators of osteolysis and osteoplasia and the response to treatment. Therefore, we have developed a three-dimensional (3-D) type I collagen gel system that allows co-culture of human osteoblasts (MG-63) with cancer cells, such as MCF-7, MDA-MB-231 or ZR-75 breast cancer cells, PC-3 prostate cancer, KLE endometrial cancer cells and Calu-1 lung cancer cells. We used type I collagen purified from rat tail tendons and the 3-D system was prepared by mixing MG-63 cells with type I collagen in 24-well plates. The 3-D system was inoculated with cancer cells and processed with standard cell culture procedures. After 1 week of culture, the matrix gel was fixed with formalin and embedded in paraffin. Serial sections were stained with trichrome Masson stain and modified Masson-Goldner stain, as well as analyzed by in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry and the TUNEL technique for semi-quantitative detection of apoptotic cell death, assessing the response to adriamycin therapy. The inoculation of PC-3 cells in this collagen matrix produced a blastic reaction, documented by an increased number of MG-63 cells and increased density of type I collagen. The human KLE cells and inoculation of cell-free media produced no reaction, while ZR-75, MCF-7 and Calu-1 cells produced local degradation of the collagen matrix. In situ hybridization revealed the expression of Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) mRNA, while immunohistochemistry detected differential expression of uPA and cathepsin D. Adriamycin induced apoptotic cell death in prostate cancer cells and estrogen receptor negative (ER-) MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells, while adriamycin did not induce apoptosis but cytostasis in ER+ MCF-7 cells. The adriamycin-induced apoptosis was inhibited by co-culture with osteoblast-like cells (MG-63). We conclude that this 3-D culture system is a useful in vitro model allowing the analysis of local mediators of osteolytic and osteoblastic reactions to bone metastases and treatment response.
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PMID:Three-dimensional type I collagen co-culture systems for the study of cell-cell interactions and treatment response in bone metastases. 1575 11

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle to successful cancer treatment. To understand the mechanism of MDR, many cancer cell lines have been established, and various mechanisms of resistance, such as ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter-mediated drug efflux, have been discovered. Previously, a MDR cell line MCF7/AdVp3000 was selected from breast cancer cell line MCF7 against Adriamycin, and overexpression of ABCG2 was thought to cause MDR in this derivative cell line. However, ectopic overexpression of ABCG2 in MCF7 cells could not explain the extremely high drug resistance level of the selected MCF7/AdVp3000 cells. We hypothesized that MCF7/AdVp3000 cells must have other resistance mechanisms selected by Adriamycin. To test this hypothesis, we compared the global protein profiles between MCF7 and MCF7/AdVp3000 cells. Following two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry analysis, 17 protein spots with differential levels between the two cell lines were identified. Although 14-3-3sigma, keratin 18, keratin 19, ATP synthase beta, protein disulfide isomerase, heat shock protein 27, cathepsin D, triose-phosphate isomerase, peroxiredoxin 6, and electron transfer flavoprotein were increased, nm23/H1, peroxiredoxin 2, nucleophosmin 1/B23, and inorganic pyrophosphatase were decreased in MCF7/AdVp3000 cells. The differential levels of these proteins were validated using Western blot. Furthermore, functional validation showed that the elevated 14-3-3sigma expression contributes considerably to the observed drug resistance in MCF7/AdVp3000 cells. We, thus, conclude that these proteins likely contribute to the resistance selected in the MCF7/AdVp3000 cells, and their altered expression in tumors may cause clinical resistance to chemotherapy.
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PMID:Identification of 14-3-3sigma as a contributor to drug resistance in human breast cancer cells using functional proteomic analysis. 1654 Jun 77