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Query: EC:3.6.3.44 (P-glycoprotein)
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The effects of a newly synthesized compound, N-ethoxycarbonyl-7-oxo-staurosporine (NA-382), on multidrug resistance in tumor cells were investigated. Protein kinase-inhibitory activity of NA-382 was lower but more selective to Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase than that of staurosporine. NA-382 at noncytotoxic concentrations effectively reversed in vitro multidrug resistance of Adriamycin-resistant P388 (P388/ADR) cells, without influencing the drug sensitivity of sensitive P388 cells. NA-382 inhibited extrusion of vinblastine (VBL) and increased intracellular accumulation of VBL, more in P388/ADR cells than in sensitive P388 cells, with higher potency than staurosporine. This compound also reduced VBL resistance of other multidrug-resistant cell lines, AH66 and K562/ADR, by inhibiting VBL efflux and promoting VBL accumulation. NA-382 also dose dependently potentiated the effects of VBL and Adriamycin in P388/ADR-bearing mice. The toxicity of staurosporine was too high to use the combination with VBL in vitro and in vivo. NA-382 accumulated VBL in P388/ADR cells even after desensitization of Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase by treatment with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and 18 h, while being suppressed by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate added simultaneously or shortly before NA-382. Both staurosporine and NA-382 inhibited the photolabeling of [3H]azidopine on M(r) 140,000 P-glycoprotein in the plasma membrane from P388/ADR cells. These results indicate that this new staurosporine analogue, NA-382, reverses multidrug resistance by directly inhibiting the drug binding to P-glycoprotein, but not by Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase inhibitory action.
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PMID:Inhibition of multidrug resistance by a new staurosporine derivative, NA-382, in vitro and in vivo. 809 55

The effects of eight isoquinolinesulphonamide compounds on resistance to vinblastine in adriamycin-resistant mouse leukaemia cells (P388/ADR) which overexpress the relative molecular weight (M(r)) 140 kDa P-glycoprotein in the plasma membrane were investigated. N-[2-(Methylamino)ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulphonamide (H-8) and N-(2-aminoethyl)-5-isoquinolinesulphonamide (H-9) did not reverse vinblastine resistance. N-[2-[N-[3-(4-Chlorophenyl)-2-propenyl]amino] ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulphonamide (H-86) and N-[2-[N-[3-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-methyl-2-propenyl] amino]ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulphonamide (H-87) caused accumulation of intracellular vinblastine and inhibition of vinblastine efflux from the cells and reversed the resistance. Addition of an aminoethyl group to the nitrogen atom of the sulphonamide group (W-66) or a formyl group at the terminal amino group (H-85) of H-86 reduced those activities. Conversion of the chlorophenyl group of H-87 to pyridinyl (H-31) or furanyl (H-34) markedly decreased activities against the drug resistance. The activity against vinblastine accumulation closely correlated with the apparent partition coefficient of compounds. These compounds dose-dependently inhibited photoaffinity labelling of a photosensitive analogue of vinblastine, N-(p-azido-(3-[125I)salicyl)-N'-beta-aminoethyl-vindesine ([125I]NASV), and there was a good correlation between inhibition of [125I]NASV-photolabelling and hydrophobicity. Although these isoquinolinesulphonamides inhibited protein kinase A with different magnitudes, this activity did not correlate with the effect on the drug resistance. These results indicate that isoquinolinesulphonamide compounds with a hydrophobic group interact with antitumour drugs on P-glycoprotein and reverse multidrug resistance without involvement of their activity on protein kinase A.
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PMID:Effects of isoquinolinesulphonamide compounds on multidrug-resistant P388 cells. 809 66

8-Chloro-cyclic AMP (8-Cl-cAMP) produces growth-inhibitory and differentiating activity in the promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60. Adriamycin (ADR)-resistant HL-60 (HL-60/AR) cells exhibit the multidrug-resistant phenotype but do not express the mdr1 gene product P-glycoprotein. To explore potential signaling processes that may be involved in this atypical form of drug resistance, 8-Cl-cAMP was used as a modulator of the cAMP second messenger signal transduction pathway. Treatment for 48 hr with a 10% inhibitory concentration of 8-Cl-cAMP potentiated ADR cytotoxicity 14-fold in HL-60/AR cells but not in the parental cell line. 8-Cl-cAMP was stable to hydrolysis in the medium after 48 hr and was present intracellularly predominantly as phosphorylated metabolites (70%) and the parent compound (30%). No difference occurred in ADR accumulation in HL-60/AR cells after treatment with 8-Cl-cAMP. Accompanying the 8-Cl-cAMP-mediated increase in ADR cytotoxicity in HL-60/AR cells was a reduction in the cytosolic type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and disappearance of the nuclear PKA holoenzyme. Coincident with these changes in drug-resistant cells was a marked reduction in the DNA-binding activity of the cAMP response element-binding protein to levels equivalent to those in sensitive cells. This effect appears to result from reduced phosphorylation of the cAMP response element-binding protein. These results suggest that the potentiation by 8-Cl-cAMP of ADR cytotoxicity in HL-60/AR cells occurs through down-regulation of nuclear type I PKA and cAMP response element-binding factors whose activities are regulated by PKA.
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PMID:Reversal of resistance to adriamycin by 8-chloro-cyclic AMP in adriamycin-resistant HL-60 leukemia cells is associated with reduction of type I cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase and cyclic AMP response element-binding protein DNA-binding activities. 838 2

The development of cross-resistance to many natural product anticancer drugs, termed multidrug resistance (MDR), is a serious limitation to cancer chemotherapy. MDR is often associated with overexpression of the MDR1 gene product, P-glycoprotein, a multifunctional drug transporter. Understanding the mechanisms that regulate the transcriptional activation of MDR1 may afford a means of reducing or eliminating MDR. We have found that MDR1 expression can be modulated by type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). This suggests that MDR may be modulated by selectively downregulating PKA activity to effect inhibition of PKA-dependent trans-activating factors which may be involved in MDR1 transcription. High levels of type I PKA occur in primary breast carcinomas and patients exhibiting this phenotype show decreased survival. The selective type I PKA inhibitors, 8-Cl-cAMP and Rp8-Cl-cAMP[S], may be particularly useful for downregulating PKA, and inhibit transient expression of a reporter gene under the control of MDR1 promoter elements. Thus, investigations of the signalling pathways involved in transcriptional regulation of MDR1 may lead to a greater understanding of the mechanisms governing the expression of MDR and provide a focus for pharmacological intervention.
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PMID:Regulation of multidrug resistance through the cAMP and EGF signalling pathways. 856 4

The effect of several opiate compounds on I- efflux was investigated in cultured cell lines. I- efflux was evoked by two distinct stimuli, namely cell swelling and elevation of cellular cAMP levels by prostaglandin E2. Cells expressing the multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein were found to have increased I- efflux in response to hypo-osmotic challenge. This increased I- efflux in P-glycoprotein containing cells was reduced to levels found in parental cells by the opiates morphine, pentazocine and naloxone. Addition of prostaglandin E2 to T84 cells resulted in elevated cellular cAMP levels and a significant I- efflux. This cAMP stimulated efflux was also inhibited by several opiates. None of the opiates was able to alter cAMP levels or protein kinase A mediated phosphorylation of immunoprecipitated cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl- channel in T84 cells. The ability of opiates to alter ion conductances is discussed in relation to the anti-diarrheal effects of these compounds.
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PMID:Opiates inhibit ion conductances elicited by cell swelling and cAMP in cultured cells. 856 69

The predominant characteristics of multidrug resistant (MDR) cancer cells are broad spectrum resistance to chemotherapeutic agents and a pronounced defect in intracellular accumulation of the drugs, in association with overexpression of the drug efflux pump P-glycoprotein. Protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylates the linker region of P-glycoprotein. Evidence has been presented that the isozyme PKC-alpha may contribute to the drug resistance phenotype of human breast cancer MCF7-MDR cells, PKC-alpha is markedly overexpressed in MCF7-MDR cells, and artificial overexpression of PKC-alpha in MCF7 constructs that overexpress P-glycoprotein significantly enhances the MDR phenotype of the cells in association with increased P-glycoprotein phosphorylation. Verapamil, cyclosporin A, and a number of other agents that compete with cytotoxic drugs for binding sites on P-glycoprotein can potently reverse MDR, but this is accompanied by severe toxicity in vivo. In this report, we demonstrate that an N-myristoylated peptide that contains a sequence corresponding to the pseudosubstrate region of PKC-alpha (P1) partially reverses multidrug resistance in MCF7-MDR cells by a novel mechanism that involves inhibition of PKC-alpha. P1 and two related PKC inhibitory N-myristoylated peptides restored intracellular accumulation of chemotherapeutic drugs in association with inhibition of the phosphorylation of three PKC-alpha substrates in MCF7-MDR cells: PKC-alpha, Raf-1 kinase, and P-glycoprotein. A fourth N-myristoylated peptide substrate analog of PKC, P7, did not affect drug accumulation in the MCF7-MDR cells and failed to inhibit the phosphorylation of the PKC-alpha substrates. The effects of P1 and verapamil on drug accumulation in MCF7-MDR cells were additive. P1 did not affect P-glycoprotein expression. MCF7-MDR cells were not cross-resistant to P1, which suggest that the peptide was not transported by P-glycoprotein. Furthermore, P1 was distinguished from MDR reversal agents such as verapamil and cyclosporin A by its inability to inhibit [3H]azidopine photoaffinity labeling of P-glycoprotein. P1 actually increased [3H] azidopine photoaffinity labeling of P-glycoprotein in MCF7-MDR cells, providing evidence that the effects of P1 on P-glycoprotein in MCF7-MDR cells are not restricted to inhibition of the phosphorylation of the pump. P1 may provide a basis for developing a new generation of MDR reversal agents that function by a novel mechanism that involves inhibition of PKC-alpha-catalyzed P-glycoprotein phosphorylation.
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PMID:Partial reversal of multidrug resistance in human breast cancer cells by an N-myristoylated protein kinase C-alpha pseudosubstrate peptide. 856 66

To assess the role of phosphorylation of the human multidrug resistance MDR1 gene product P-glycoprotein for its drug transport activity, phosphorylation sites within its linker region were subjected to mutational analysis. We constructed a 5A mutant, in which serines at positions 661, 667, 671, 675, and 683 were replaced by nonphosphorylatable alanine residues, and a 5D mutant carrying aspartic acid residues at the respective positions to mimic permanently phosphorylated serine residues. Transfection studies revealed that both mutants were targeted properly to the cell surface and conferred multidrug resistance by diminishing drug accumulation. In contrast to wild-type P-glycoprotein, the overexpressed 5A and the 5D mutants exhibited no detectable levels of phosphorylation, either in vivo following metabolic labeling of cells with [32P]orthophosphate or in vitro in phosphorylation assays with protein kinase C, cAMP-dependent protein kinase, or a P-glyco-protein-specific protein kinase purified from multidrug-resistant KB-V1 cells. These results reconfirm that the major P-glycoprotein phosphorylation sites are located within the linker region. Furthermore, the first direct evidence is provided that phosphorylation/dephosphorylation mechanisms do not play an essential role in the establishment of the multidrug resistance phenotype mediated by human P-glycoprotein.
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PMID:Characterization of phosphorylation-defective mutants of human P-glycoprotein expressed in mammalian cells. 857 73

c-Jun NH2-terminal protein kinase (JNK), a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family, is activated in response to many stressful stimuli including heat shock, UV irradiation, protein synthesis inhibitors, and inflammatory cytokines. In this study, we investigated whether JNK plays a role in the cellular response to different drugs commonly used in cancer chemotherapy. Treatment of human KB-3 carcinoma cells with Adriamycin resulted in a time- and dose-dependent activation of JNK of up to 40-fold. Treatment with vinblastine or etoposide (VP-16) also activated JNK, with maximum increases of 6.5- and 4.3-fold, respectively. Consistent with these findings, increased c-Jun phosphorylation was observed after drug treatment of cells. In contrast, none of the drugs significantly activated the extracellular response kinase/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. Since these drugs are transport substrates for the MDR1 gene product, P-glycoprotein, JNK was assayed in two multidrug-resistant (MDR) KB cell lines, KB-A1 and KB-V1, selected for resistance to Adriamycin and vinblastine, respectively. Relative to KB-3 cells, basal JNK activity was increased 7-fold in KB-A1 cells and 4-fold in KB-V1 cells, with no change in JNK protein expression, indicating that JNK is present in a more highly activated form in the MDR cell lines. Under conditions optimal for JNK activation, Adriamycin, vinblastine, and VP-16 all induced MDR1 mRNA expression in KB-3 cells. Our findings suggest that JNK activation is an important component of the cellular response to several structurally and functionally distinct anticancer drugs and may also play a role in the MDR phenotype.
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PMID:Role of the stress-activated/c-Jun NH2-terminal protein kinase pathway in the cellular response to adriamycin and other chemotherapeutic drugs. 894 82

The ATP binding cassette transporter ABC1 is a 220-kDa glycoprotein expressed by macrophages and required for engulfment of cells undergoing programmed cell death. Since members of this family of proteins such as P-glycoprotein and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator share the ability to transport anions, we have investigated the transport capability of ABC1 expressed in Xenopus oocytes using iodide efflux and voltage-clamp techniques. We report here that ABC1 generates an anion flux sensitive to glibenclamide, sulfobromophthalein, and blockers of anion transporters. The anion flux generated by ABC1 is up-regulated by orthovanadate, cAMP, protein kinase A, and okadaic acid. In other ABC transporters, mutating the conserved lysine in the nucleotide binding folds was found to severely reduce or abolish hydrolysis of ATP, which in turn altered the activity of the transporter. In ABC1, replacement of the conserved lysine 1892 in the Walker A motif of the second nucleotide binding fold increased the basal ionic flux, did not alter the pharmacological inhibitory profile, but abolished the response to orthovanadate and cAMP agonists. Therefore, we conclude that ABC1 is a cAMP-dependent and sulfonylurea-sensitive anion transporter.
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PMID:ABC1, an ATP binding cassette transporter required for phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, generates a regulated anion flux after expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes. 900 6

P-glycoprotein, the multidrug resistance transporter, is phosphorylated in vivo and the major phosphorylation domain has been identified as the linker region (amino acids 629-686). The linker region is a highly charged segment of the transporter in which the negative and positive amino acid side chains are spatially segregated. Both of these charged domains contain several consensus phosphorylation sites for protein kinases. Three of the consensus phosphorylation sites for basic-directed kinases in murine mdr1b P-glycoprotein are utilized in vivo and have been identified as serines 665, 669, and 681. Mutagenesis of all the consensus basic-directed kinase phosphorylation sites in the linker region of human MDR1 P-glycoprotein did not alter the ability of the mutated transporter to confer the multidrug resistance phenotype in stably transfected cell lines. These studies would suggest that phosphorylation/dephosphorylation within the basic domain of the linker region is not directly involved in regulation of drug transporter activity. We now report that the linker region of mdr1b P-glycoprotein is also phosphorylated in vivo within the acidic domain (amino acids 631-658). These sites have been mapped using casein kinase II, a prototypic acidic-directed kinase, and a recombinant mdr1b linker region peptide (amino acids 621-687). Electrospray mass spectrometry demonstrated that casein kinase II could introduce up to five phosphates into the recombinant peptide. Two-dimensional phosphopeptide mapping indicated that all the phosphates were contained in a tryptic peptide consisting of amino acids 631-658. Phosphopeptide mapping of in vivo labeled P-glycoprotein, isolated from either J7.V1-1, a murine vinblastine-resistant cell line, or HeLa cells stably transfected with mdr1b P-glycoprotein cDNA, revealed that this tryptic peptide was phosphorylated in both proteins.
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PMID:Identification of the in vivo phosphorylation sites for acidic-directed kinases in murine mdr1b P-glycoprotein. 903 9


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