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JAK2 Inhibitor, Fedratinib, Inhibits P-gp Activity and Co-Treatment Induces Cytotoxicity in Antimitotic Drug-Treated P-gp Overexpressing Resistant KBV20C Cancer Cells

P-glycoprotein (P-gp) overexpression is one of the major mechanisms of multidrug resistance (MDR). Previously, co-treatment with Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) inhibitors sensitized P-gp-overexpressing drug-resistant cancer cells. In this study, we assessed the cytotoxic effects of JAK2 inhibitor, fedratinib...

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Autores principales: Oh, Yunmoon, Lee, Jin-Sol, Lee, Ji Sun, Park, Jae Hyeon, Kim, Hyung Sik, Yoon, Sungpil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9100550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35562984
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094597
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Sumario:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) overexpression is one of the major mechanisms of multidrug resistance (MDR). Previously, co-treatment with Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) inhibitors sensitized P-gp-overexpressing drug-resistant cancer cells. In this study, we assessed the cytotoxic effects of JAK2 inhibitor, fedratinib, on drug-resistant KBV20C cancer cells. We found that co-treatment with fedratinib at low doses induced cytotoxicity in KBV20C cells treated with vincristine (VIC). However, fedratinib-induced cytotoxicity was little effect on VIC-treated sensitive KB parent cells, suggesting that these effects are specific to resistant cancer cells. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), Western blotting, and annexin V analyses were used to further investigate fedratinib’s mechanism of action in VIC-treated KBV20C cells. We found that fedratinib reduced cell viability, increased G2 arrest, and upregulated apoptosis when used as a co-treatment with VIC. G2 phase arrest and apoptosis in VIC–fedratinib-co-treated cells resulted from the upregulation of p21 and the DNA damaging marker pH2AX. Compared with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-treated cells, fedratinib-treated KBV20C cells showed two-fold higher P-gp-inhibitory activity, indicating that VIC–fedratinib sensitization is dependent on the activity of fedratinib. Similar to VIC, fedratinib co-treatment with other antimitotic drugs (i.e., eribulin, vinorelbine, and vinblastine) showed increased cytotoxicity in KBV20C cells. Furthermore, VIC–fedratinib had similar cytotoxic effects to co-treatment with other JAK2 inhibitors (i.e., VIC–CEP-33779 or VIC–NVP-BSK805) at the same dose; similar cytotoxic mechanisms (i.e., early apoptosis) were observed between treatments, suggesting that co-treatment with JAK2 inhibitors is generally cytotoxic to P-gp-overexpressing resistant cancer cells. Given that fedratinib is FDA-approved, our findings support its application in the co-treatment of P-gp-overexpressing cancer patients showing MDR.