title: Interaction between radiation and drug damage in mammalian cells. VI. Radiation and doxorubicin age-response function of doxorubicin-sensitive and -resistant Chinese hamster cells.
abstract: A comparative study of the radiation and/or doxorubicin (DOX) survival response for synchronous populations of Chinese hamster V79 cells and two DOX-resistant variants (77A and LZ-8) was performed. The greatest cellular radiation sensitivity was observed in mitosis, while the greatest resistance was observed during late S phase for the three cell lines. The variation in radiation response throughout the cell cycle was expressed as a change in the width of the shoulder of the survival curves (Dq) with little change in D0. This suggests that each phase of the cell cycle has a different capacity for accumulation of radiation injury. The radiation age-response function for the three cell lines revealed that 77A and LZ-8 cells were more radiosensitive than V79 cells throughout the cell cycle. Exposure of synchronous populations to DOX (1.84 microM for V79, 9.21 microM for 77A, and 921 microM for LZ-8) for 1 h as a function of cell cycle phase revealed that V79, 77A, and LZ-8 cells exhibited the greatest sensitivity to DOX in mitosis and the most resistance to DOX during S phase, as indicated by the differences in the slope of the initial component of the survival curve. Levels of P-glyco-protein (P-gp) are probably not a factor contributing to DOX age-response function since P-gp levels remain constant throughout the cell cycle in all three cell lines. Synchronous populations of V79, 77A, and LZ-8 cells sequentially treated with DOX and radiation at various cell cycle phases were also analyzed. The results showed that the interaction between radiation and DOX damage resulted in a reduced cellular capacity for the accumulation of radiation damage throughout the cell cycle, as indicated by a decrease in the width of the shoulder of the survival curve. Overall, both DOX-sensitive V79 cells and DOX-resistant 77A and LZ-8 cells exhibited (1) a similar age-response function for radiation or DOX, and (2) no differences in the effects of DOX on radiation-induced damage throughout the cell cycle. These results indicate that acquired resistance to DOX associated with increased levels of P-gp in the cell membrane did not appear to affect the age-response function for radiation or DOX, and the nature of the interaction between damage caused by radiation and DOX was also not affected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Therapy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sweet
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sognier
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Belli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006224:Cricetinae; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004361:Drug Tolerance / Q000502:physiology; D011836:Radiation Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004317:Doxorubicin