TY - JOUR
T1 - A thermally targeted elastin-like polypeptide-doxorubicin conjugate overcomes drug resistance
AU - Bidwell, Gene L.
AU - Davis, Aisha N.
AU - Fokt, Izabela
AU - Priebe, Waldemar
AU - Raucher, Drazen
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the Wendy Will Case Cancer Fund grant to Drazen Raucher and The Welch Foundation (Houston, TX) grant to Waldemar Priebe.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - The ability of cancer cells to become simultaneously resistant to different drugs, a trait known as multidrug resistance, remains a major obstacle for successful anticancer therapy. One major mechanism of resistance involves cellular drug efflux by expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a membrane transporter with a wide variety of substrates. Anthracyclines are especially prone to induction of resistance by the P-gp mechanism. P-gp mediated resistance is often confronted by use of P-gp inhibitors, synthesis of novel analogs, or conjugating drugs to macromolecular carriers in order to circumvent the efflux mechanism. In this report, the effect of free and Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) bound doxorubicin (Dox) on the viability of sensitive (MES-SA and MCF-7) and multidrug resistant (MES-SA/Dx5 and NCI/ADR-RES) human carcinoma cells was studied in vitro. The resistant MES-SA/Dx5 cells demonstrated about 70 times higher resistance to free Dox than the sensitive MES-SA cells, and the NCI/ADR-RES cells were about 30 fold more resistant than the MCF-7 cells. However, the ELP-bound Dox was equally cytotoxic in both sensitive and resistant cell lines. The ELP-bound Dox was shown to accumulate in MES-SA/Dx5 cells, as opposed to free Dox, which was rapidly pumped out by the P-gp transporter. Since ELP is a thermally responsive carrier, the effect of hyperthermia on the cytotoxicity of the ELP-Dox conjugate was investigated. Both cytotoxicity and apoptosis were enhanced by hyperthermia in the Dox resistant cells. The results suggest that ELP-Dox conjugates may provide a means to thermally target solid tumors and to overcome drug resistance in cancer cells.
AB - The ability of cancer cells to become simultaneously resistant to different drugs, a trait known as multidrug resistance, remains a major obstacle for successful anticancer therapy. One major mechanism of resistance involves cellular drug efflux by expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a membrane transporter with a wide variety of substrates. Anthracyclines are especially prone to induction of resistance by the P-gp mechanism. P-gp mediated resistance is often confronted by use of P-gp inhibitors, synthesis of novel analogs, or conjugating drugs to macromolecular carriers in order to circumvent the efflux mechanism. In this report, the effect of free and Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) bound doxorubicin (Dox) on the viability of sensitive (MES-SA and MCF-7) and multidrug resistant (MES-SA/Dx5 and NCI/ADR-RES) human carcinoma cells was studied in vitro. The resistant MES-SA/Dx5 cells demonstrated about 70 times higher resistance to free Dox than the sensitive MES-SA cells, and the NCI/ADR-RES cells were about 30 fold more resistant than the MCF-7 cells. However, the ELP-bound Dox was equally cytotoxic in both sensitive and resistant cell lines. The ELP-bound Dox was shown to accumulate in MES-SA/Dx5 cells, as opposed to free Dox, which was rapidly pumped out by the P-gp transporter. Since ELP is a thermally responsive carrier, the effect of hyperthermia on the cytotoxicity of the ELP-Dox conjugate was investigated. Both cytotoxicity and apoptosis were enhanced by hyperthermia in the Dox resistant cells. The results suggest that ELP-Dox conjugates may provide a means to thermally target solid tumors and to overcome drug resistance in cancer cells.
KW - Doxorubicin
KW - Drug delivery
KW - Elastin-like polypeptide
KW - Multidrug resistance
KW - Thermal targeting
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U2 - 10.1007/s10637-007-9053-8
DO - 10.1007/s10637-007-9053-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 17483874
AN - SCOPUS:34250620539
SN - 0167-6997
VL - 25
SP - 313
EP - 326
JO - Investigational New Drugs
JF - Investigational New Drugs
IS - 4
ER -