Verapamil induces upregulation of P-glycoprotein expression on human monocyte derived dendritic cells

Immunological Investigations
Raj K IshriGary M Halliday

Abstract

Overexpression of P-glycoprotein, a transmembrane drug efflux pump that mediates efflux of chemotherapeutic agents contributes to drug resistance in many leukaemia and other cancerous cells. Non-malignant cells including leukocytes also express P-glycoprotein, but physiologic functions for P-glycoprotein are poorly defined. Recently, P-glycoprotein expression has been described in human mononuclear phagocytes and Langerhans cells. It has been shown to play a role in phagocytic cell transmigration through endothelial-lined vessels in an ablumenal-lumenal direction, a process that mimics their migration into lymphatic vessels. Using the monoclonal antibody 4E3, and the P-glycoprotein antagonist, verapamil, the expression of P-glycoprotein on human monocyte-derived dendritic cells was evaluated. Dendritic cells used in this study were CD1a+, CD11c+, CD14-, CD80+, CD83+, CD86+ and MHC-II(High). The expression of these markers increased significantly as the cells matured. P-glycoprotein expression was upregulated as the dendritic cells matured as well as in the presence of the "inflammatory stress" of the pathogenic bacteria Strept. pyogenes. Addition of verapamil or Strept. pyogenes to the culture medium during the final 24 hours s...Continue Reading

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