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Blood, 15 February 2006, Vol. 107, No. 4, pp. 1546-1554. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on October 13, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-10-4126.
NEOPLASIA Up-regulation of MDR1 and induction of doxorubicin resistance by histone deacetylase inhibitor depsipeptide (FK228) and ATRA in acute promyelocytic leukemia cellsFrom the Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Departments of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Biostatistics, and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Departments of Clinical Pathology and Biochemistry, Juntendo University of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
The multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene product P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is frequently implicated in cross-resistance of tumors to chemotherapeutic drugs. In contrast, acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells do not express MDR1 and are highly sensitive to anthracyclines. The combination of ATRA and the novel histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACI) depsipeptide (FK228) induced P-gp expression and prevented growth inhibition and apoptosis in NB4 APL cells subsequently exposed to doxorubicin (DOX). ATRA/FK228 treatment after exposure to DOX, however, enhanced apoptosis. Both agents, ATRA or FK228, induced MDR1 mRNA. This effect was significantly enhanced by ATRA/FK228 administered in combination, due in part to increased H4 and H3-Lys9 acetylation of the MDR1 promoter and recruitment of the nuclear transcription factor Y alpha (NFYA) transcription activator to the CCAAT box. Cotreatment with specific P-gp inhibitor PSC833 reversed cytoprotective effects of ATRA/FK228. G1 cell-cycle arrest and p21 mRNA induction were also observed in response to ATRA/FK228, which may restrict DOX-induced apoptosis of cells in G2 phase. These results indicate that epigenetic mechanisms involving NF-YA transcription factor recruitment and histone acetylation are activated by ATRA and HDACI, induce MDR1 in APL cells, and point to the critical importance of mechanism-based sequential therapy in future clinical trials that combine HDAC inhibitors, ATRA, and anthracyclines.
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