Abstract
Chinese hamster lung cells resistant to the DNA topoisomerase II inhibitor 9-OH-ellipticine (DC-3F/9-OH-E) are cross resistant to various drugs through the expression of the MDR phenotype. The myc oncogene was approximately 10-fold amplified and 20-fold overexpressed in parental DC-3F cells as compared with DC-3F/9-HO-E cells. Transfection of the resistant cells with a mouse c-myc gene did not alter the resistance to topoisomerase II inhibitors and, in cells with a low multidrug (MDR) expression, reversed this phenotype. Northern and Western blot analyses revealed an increased expression of pgp1 in the DC-3F/9-OH-E cells, which was not modified in the myc-transfected clones. However, myc expression in these clones resulted in an increased expression of pgp3, roughly in proportion to the level of myc expression. Transfection of the DC-3F/9-OH-E cells with the human MDR3 gene, homologous to pgp3, also resulted in the reversion of the MDR phenotype. These results show that (1) expression of the transfected myc gene positively regulates pgp3 expression but has no effect on pgp1; (2) when observed, reversion of the MDR phenotype is proportional to the levels of myc and pgp3 expression; and (3) this reversion, resulting from pgp3 exp...Continue Reading
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