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ARCHIVES OF TOXICOLOGY
Volume 93, Issue 10, Pages 2835-2848Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-019-02557-9
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Cisplatin; Toxicities; Transporters; Mouse model
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [CI 107/11-1]
- National Institutes of Health [R01CA215802]
- Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia
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Cisplatin (CDDP) is one of the most important chemotherapeutic drugs in modern oncology. However, its use is limited by severe toxicities, which impair life quality after cancer. Here, we investigated the role of organic cation transporters (OCT) in mediating toxicities associated with chronic (twice the week for 4 weeks) low-dose (4 mg/kg body weight) CDDP treatment (resembling therapeutic protocols in patients) of wild-type (WT) mice and mice with OCT genetic deletion (OCT1/2(-/-)). Functional and molecular analysis showed that OCT1/2(-/-) mice are partially protected from CDDP-induced nephrotoxicity and peripheral neurotoxicity, whereas ototoxicity was not detectable. Surprisingly, proteomic analysis of the kidneys demonstrated that genetic deletion of OCT1/2 itself was associated with significant changes in expression of proinflammatory and profibrotic proteins which are part of an OCT-associated protein network. This signature directly regulated by OCT consisted of three classes of proteins, viz., profibrotic proteins, proinflammatory proteins, and nutrient sensing molecules. Consistent with functional protection, CDDP-induced proteome changes were more severe in WT mice than in OCT1/2(-/-) mice. Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry analysis demonstrated that the presence of OCT was not associated with higher renal platinum concentrations. Taken together, these results redefine the role of OCT from passive membrane transporters to active modulators of cell signaling in the kidney.
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