Department of Neurosurgery, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.
Department of Neurosurgery, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan
Anticancer Res. 2020 Mar;40(3):1315-1323. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.14073.
BACKGROUND/AIM: Temozolomide (TMZ) induces prolonged arrest of human glioma cells in the G/M phase and inhibition of the G checkpoint intensifies the effect of TMZ. These findings suggest that the G checkpoint is linked to DNA repair mechanisms.
To clarify the mechanism of TMZ resistance, we established TMZ-resistant (TR) clones by serial treatment of U87MG cells with TMZ. We evaluated TMZ-induced cell cycle arrest and the effect of various G checkpoint inhibitors.
We observed that longer exposure (over 6 months) to TMZ enriched the proportion of TR clones that underwent only minimal G arrest following TMZ treatment compared to short exposure (4 months) to TMZ. Expression of MSH6 was reduced in these clones. None of the G checkpoint inhibitors could resensitize TR clones to TMZ.
Longer drug treatment may induce resistance of cells to DNA damaging agent(s) by means of mismatch repair modification.
背景/目的:替莫唑胺(TMZ)可诱导人胶质瘤细胞在 G2/M 期长时间阻滞,并抑制 G 期检查点,从而增强 TMZ 的作用。这些发现表明 G 期检查点与 DNA 修复机制有关。
为了阐明 TMZ 耐药的机制,我们通过对 U87MG 细胞进行 TMZ 序贯处理,建立了 TMZ 耐药(TR)克隆。我们评估了 TMZ 诱导的细胞周期阻滞和各种 G 期检查点抑制剂的作用。
我们观察到,与短时间(4 个月)暴露于 TMZ 相比,长时间(超过 6 个月)暴露于 TMZ 可使 TR 克隆在 TMZ 处理后仅经历最小程度的 G 期阻滞,比例增加。这些克隆中 MSH6 的表达减少。没有一种 G 期检查点抑制剂能使 TR 克隆对 TMZ 重新敏感。
较长时间的药物治疗可能通过错配修复修饰诱导细胞对 DNA 损伤剂的耐药性。