title: Drug accumulation in the presence of the multidrug resistance pump: dissociation between verapamil accumulation and the action of P-glycoprotein.
abstract: We studied the interaction between the multidrug transporter, P-glycoprotein, and two compounds that interact with it: vinblastine, a classical substrate of the pump, and verapamil, a classical reverser. Steady-state levels of accumulation of these two drugs were determined in a multidrug resistant P388 leukemia cell line, P388/ADR. The time course of accumulation of these drugs, and the effect of energy starvation and the presence of chloroquine on the level of their steady-state accumulation were quite disparate. Vinblastine inhibited the accumulation of verapamil whereas it enhanced the accumulation of daunomycin, another classic substrate of P-glycoprotein. Verapamil did not compete with the intracellular binding sites of vinblastine. In all these aspects, vinblastine behaved as a typical substrate of P-glycoprotein but verapamil did not. Our data suggest that verapamil is a reverser of P-glycoprotein but that its intracellular accumulation is not affected by this membrane-bound transporter.
authors.affiliation: Biological Chemistry Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ayesh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Litman
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D000818:Animals; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D002738:Chloroquine / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D003630:Daunorubicin / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D051379:Mice; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014700:Verapamil / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D014747:Vinblastine / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D014747:Vinblastine; D002738:Chloroquine; D014700:Verapamil; D003630:Daunorubicin