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ArticleCell death & disease2017

Binding of doxorubicin to Sorcin impairs cell death and increases drug resistance in cancer cells.

Ilaria Genovese, Annarita Fiorillo, Andrea Ilari, Silvia Masciarelli, Francesco Fazi, Gianni Colotti

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ilaria GenoveseDepartment of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Annarita FiorilloDepartment of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Andrea IlariIBPM-CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
Silvia MasciarelliDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic &Orthopaedic Sciences, Section of Histology &Medical Embryology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Francesco FaziDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic &Orthopaedic Sciences, Section of Histology &Medical Embryology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Gianni ColottiIBPM-CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9913-0635
Sapienza University of Rome · ITInstitute of Molecular Biology and Pathology · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sorcin is a calcium binding protein that plays an important role in multidrug resistance (MDR) in tumors, since its expression confers resistance to doxorubicin and to other chemotherapeutic drugs. In this study, we show that Sorcin is able to bind doxorubicin, vincristine, paclitaxel and cisplatin directly and with high affinity. The high affinity binding of doxorubicin to sorcin has been demonstrated with different techniques, that is, surface plasmon resonance, fluorescence titration and X-ray diffraction. Although the X-ray structure of sorcin in complex with doxorubicin has been solved at low resolution, it allows the identification of one of the two doxorubicin binding sites, placed at the interface between the EF5 loop the G helix and the EF4 loop. We show that Sorcin cellular localization changes upon doxorubicin treatment, an indication that the protein responds to doxorubicin and it presumably binds the drug also inside the cell, soon after drug entrance. We also demonstrate that Sorcin is able to limit the toxic effects of the chemotherapeutic agent in the cell. In addition, Sorcin silencing increases cell death upon treatment with doxorubicin, increases the accumulation of doxorubicin in cell nucleus, decreases the expression of MDR1 and doxorubicin efflux via MDR1.

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Calcium-Binding ProteinsDoxorubicinDrug Resistance, MultipleDrug Resistance, NeoplasmNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasmsA549 CellsATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily BCell DeathCrystallography, X-RayHeLa CellsHumansProtein BindingProtein Structure, SecondaryABCB1 protein, humanATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily BCalcium-Binding ProteinsDoxorubicinNeoplasm ProteinsSRI protein, human

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PMID28726784
PMCPMC5550883
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