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ArticleMolecular pharmacology2010

Acquired activation of the Akt/cyclooxygenase-2/Mcl-1 pathway renders lung cancer cells resistant to apoptosis.

Wenjie Chen, Lang Bai, Xia Wang, Shanling Xu, Steven A Belinsky, Yong Lin

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Article in Molecular pharmacology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wenjie ChenMolecular Biology and Lung Cancer Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 2425 Ridgecrest Dr., SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA.
Lang Bai
Xia Wang
Shanling Xu
Steven A Belinsky
Yong Lin
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute · US

Funding

Nutrient Flavonoids and Lung Cancer PreventionR03CA125796 · NCI · LOVELACE BIOMEDICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LIN, YONG · 2007 to 2008
$205k
NCI NIH HHS R03 CA125796NCI NIH HHS R03-CA125796
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acquired apoptosis resistance plays an important role in acquired chemoresistance in cancer cells during chemotherapy. Our previous observations demonstrated that acquired tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand resistance in lung cancer cells was associated with Akt-mediated stabilization of cellular FLICE-like inhibitory protein (c-FLIP) and Mcl-1. In this report, we determined that these cells also have acquired resistance to apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin and doxorubicin (Adriamycin), which was detected in vitro in cell cultures and in vivo in xenografted tumors. We further found that cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is dramatically overexpressed in cells with acquired apoptosis resistance. COX-2 seems to be a crucial mediator in acquired apoptosis resistance because suppressing COX-2 activity with a chemical inhibitor or reducing COX-2 protein expression level with COX-2 small interfering RNA dramatically alleviated resistance to therapeutic-induced apoptosis. Inhibiting Akt markedly suppressed COX-2 expression, suggesting COX-2 is a downstream effector of this cell survival kinase-mediated apoptosis resistance. Furthermore, the expression of Mcl-1 but not c-FLIP was significantly reduced when COX-2 was suppressed, and knockdown of Mcl-1 substantially sensitized the cells to apoptosis. Our results establish a novel pathway that consists of Akt, COX-2, and Mcl-1 for acquired apoptosis resistance, which could be a molecular target for circumventing acquired chemoresistance in lung cancer.

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AnimalsApoptosisCell Line, TumorCyclooxygenase 2DoxorubicinDrug Resistance, NeoplasmEnzyme ActivationHumansLung NeoplasmsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeMyeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 ProteinProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Signal TransductionCyclooxygenase 2DoxorubicinMcl1 protein, mouseMyeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 ProteinProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2

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PMID19933775
PMCPMC2835422
OpenAlexW2117513711

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