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Title: | Combination Therapy with Gossypol Reveals Synergism against Gemcitabine Resistance in Cancer Cells with High BCL-2 Expression | Authors: | Wong, F.Y. Liem, N. Xie, C. Yan, F.L. Wong, W.C. Wang, L. Yong, W.-P. |
Issue Date: | 4-Dec-2012 | Citation: | Wong, F.Y., Liem, N., Xie, C., Yan, F.L., Wong, W.C., Wang, L., Yong, W.-P. (2012-12-04). Combination Therapy with Gossypol Reveals Synergism against Gemcitabine Resistance in Cancer Cells with High BCL-2 Expression. PLoS ONE 7 (12) : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050786 | Abstract: | Although gemcitabine is highly active in several cancer types, intrinsic and acquired drug resistance remains a major challenge. Overexpression of Bcl-2 has been associated with gemcitabine resistance. The aim of this study is to determine whether gossypol can overcome gemcitabine resistance in cell lines with high level of Bcl-2 expression in combination drug therapy. Our study demonstrated that in 10 cell lines derived from different cancers, high Bcl-2 baseline expression was observed in cell lines that were resistant to gemcitabine (GEM-R). Furthermore, synergistic effect of combination therapy was observed in gemcitabine-resistant (GEM-R) cell lines with high Bcl-2 expression, but not in a gemcitabine-sensitive (GEM-S) cell lines regardless of Bcl-2 expression. Gossypol treatment resulted in the decrease of anti-apoptotic genes such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-xl and an upregulation of the pro-apoptotic gene, Noxa. Furthermore, the addition of gossypol to gemcitabine resulted in lower expressions of anti-apoptotic genes compared to gemcitabine alone. Gene expression profiling in GEM-R and GEM-S cell lines suggest that anti-apoptotic genes such as pAkt and PI3KR2 may play important role in gemcitabine resistance, while pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 related genes (Bad, Caspase-6 and Calpain-1) may regulate synergistic interaction in combination therapy. © 2012 Wong et al. | Source Title: | PLoS ONE | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/116954 | ISSN: | 19326203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0050786 |
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