title: Up-regulation of P-glycoprotein expression in rat liver cells by acute doxorubicin treatment.
abstract: Expression of P-glycoprotein, a plasma-membrane glycoprotein involved in multidrug resistance and encoded by mdr genes, was investigated in cultured rat liver cells acutely exposed to doxorubicin. This anticancer drug was shown to increase mdr mRNA levels in a dose-dependent manner in both rat liver epithelial (RLE) cells and primary rat hepatocytes. This induction of mdr transcripts was detected as early as a 4-h exposure to doxorubicin used at 0.5 microg/ml. It occurred through increased expression of the mdr1 gene as assessed by northern blot analysis using rat mdr-gene-specific probes. In addition, RLE cells exposed to doxorubicin displayed an overexpression of a 140-kDa P-glycoprotein as demonstrated by western blotting. Moreover, doxorubicin-treated RLE cells displayed enhanced cellular efflux of the P-glycoprotein substrate rhodamine 123 that was inhibited by the P-glycoprotein blocker verapamil, thus providing evidence that doxorubicin-induced P-glycoprotein was functional in liver cells. Doxorubicin-mediated mdr mRNA induction was found to be fully inhibited by actinomycin D, thus indicating its dependence on RNA synthesis; it was demonstrated to be not associated with alteration of protein synthesis, suggesting it differed from the known mdr mRNA overexpression occurring in response to cycloheximide. In contrast to P-glycoprotein, other liver detoxification pathways such as cytochromes P-450 1A were not induced by doxorubicin treatment. These data indicate that doxorubicin can act as a potent acute inducer of functional P-glycoprotein in rat liver cells and therefore may modulate both chemosensitivity of hepatic cells and P-glycoprotein-mediated biliary secretion of xenobiotics.
authors.affiliation: Unité Détoxication et Réparation Tissulaire, U456 de l'INSERM, Faculté de Pharmacie, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fardel
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lecureur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daval
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corlu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillouzo
mesh_terms: D018435:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B; D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000494:pharmacology; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003513:Cycloheximide / Q000494:pharmacology; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 / Q000235:genetics; D019388:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2 / Q000235:genetics; D003609:Dactinomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple / Q000235:genetics; D019450:Genes, MDR; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D018435:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B; D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D003609:Dactinomycin; D004317:Doxorubicin; D003513:Cycloheximide; C095122:multidrug resistance protein 3; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1; D019388:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2