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NEOPLASMA
卷 62, 期 2, 页码 180-190出版社
AEPRESS SRO
DOI: 10.4149/neo_2015_023
关键词
insulin resistance; drug resistance; P-gp; endoplasmic reticulum stress; HepG2 cells
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资金
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [lzujbky-2013142]
- project of youth science and technology fund of Gansu province of China [1308RJYA05]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) [IRT1137]
Insulin resistance has a close relationship with tumorigenesis, tumor progression, and cancer prognosis. Importantly, the liver is the main target tissue of insulin, and the resistance to chemotherapeutic agents has been reported in hepato-carcinoma. However, little is known about the relationship between drug resistance and insulin resistance in hepatocarcinoma. Therefore, we treated HepG2 cells (a human hepatoma cell line) with high concentrations of insulin to establish a cell-based model of insulin resistance (HepG2/IR cells) to define the relationship between insulin resistance and the resistance to chemotherapy. We identified that HepG2/IR cells exhibited stable insulin resistance, with decreased glucose consumption, reduced glycogen synthesis, and decreased expression of the insulin receptor gene. HepG2/IR cells also exhibited endoplasmic reticulum (ER) dilatation and degranulation. Molecular markers of endoplasmic reticulum stress, including glucose-regulated protein78 (GRP78) and phosphorylated protein kinase R-like ER kinase (p-PERK), increased significantly, which was accompanied by increased reactive oxygen metabolism and decreased mitochondrial membrane potential. In addition, HepG2/IR cells were resistant to the chemotherapy agent Adriamycin, which was accompanied by the upregulation of multidrug resistance gene 1/ P-glycoprotein (P-gp; an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone that plays a role in ER stress), and enhanced drug efflux. These data suggest that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response was active in HepG2/IR cells, and that insulin resistance was related to drug resistance in HepG2 cells. Interestingly, the ER stress and chemotherapy resistance observed in HepG2/IR cells could be reversed by treatment with the insulin sensitizer pioglitazone. Therefore, our study suggests that there is a close relationship between the resistance to chemotherapy and insulin resistance in HepG2 cells, and that the ER stress response play a role in insulin resistance-mediated drug resistance in hepatocarcinoma cells.
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