title: The role of reduced growth rate in the development of drug resistance of HOB1 lymphoma cells to vincristine.
abstract: An MDR cell line resistant to 1.0 microM vincristine (designated HOB1/VCR1.0) was established. The growth rate of HOB1/VCR1.0 cells was slow. The cells did not go into active proliferation although the drug treatment was released for two months (revertant cells). The HOB1/VCR1.0 cell line and its revertant were resistant to a high dose of vincristine (up to 20 microM). These two cell lines showed a decrease in expression of the hyperphosphorylated form of the retinoblastoma protein, of which the hypophosphorylated form has been considered to be a tumor suppressor. Similar phenomena were observed in the parental cells surviving brief treatment with a lethal dose of vincristine (0.05 microM). The current study gives the impression that self-inhibited growth rate may participate in the initial drug resistance before the expression of P-glycoprotein when tumor cells are suddenly exposed to chemotherapeutic agents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010766:Phosphorylation; D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D014316:Tritium; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014750:Vincristine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein; D014316:Tritium; D014750:Vincristine