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CELL CYCLE
卷 8, 期 20, 页码 3349-3354出版社
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/cc.8.20.9845
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RNA interference; gene therapy; multidrug resistance; cancer; E. coli; ABCB1; MDR1
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- Bundesministerium fur Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) [01GU0615]
Delivery of RNA interference (RNAi)-mediating agents to target cells is one of the major obstacles for the development of RNAi-based therapies. One strategy to overcome this barrier is transkingdom RNAi (tkRNAi). This technology uses non-pathogenic bacteria to produce and deliver therapeutic short hairpin RNA (shRNA) into target cells to induce RNAi. In this study, the tkRNAi approach was used for modulation of the classical ABCB1-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR) in human cancer cells. Subsequent to treatment with anti-ABCB1 shRNA expression vector bearing E. coli, MDR cancer cells (EPG85 257RDB) showed 45% less ABCB1 mRNA expression. ABCB1 protein expression levels were reduced to a point at which merely a weak band could be detected. Drug accumulation was enhanced 11-fold, to an extent that it reached 45% of the levels in non-resistant cells and resistance to daunorubicin was decreased by 40%. The data provide the proof-of-concept that tkRNAi is suitable for modulation of classical MDR in human cancer cells. Overall, the prototype tkRNAi system tested here did not yet attain the levels of gene silencing seen with conventional siRNAs nor virally delivered shRNAs; but the tkRNAi system for gene-silencing of ABCB1 is still being optimized, and may become a powerful tool for delivery of RNAi effectors for the reversal of cancer MDR in future.
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