Increased epidermal growth factor receptor in multidrug‐resistant human neuroblastoma cells Journal Article


Authors: Meyers, M. B.; Violet Shen, W. P.; Spengler, B. A.; Ciccarone, V.; O'Brien, J. P.; Donner, D. B.; Furth, M. E.; Biedler, J. L.
Article Title: Increased epidermal growth factor receptor in multidrug‐resistant human neuroblastoma cells
Abstract: Multidrug‐resistant human neuroblastoma cell lines obtained by selection with vincristine or actinomycin D from two independent clonal lines, SH‐SY5Y and MCIXC, have 3‐ to 30‐fold more cell surface epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors than the drug‐sensitive parental cells as indicated by EGF binding assays and immunoprecipitation, affinity‐labeling, and phosphorylation studies. Reversion to drug sensitivity in one line was accompanied by a return to the parental level of EGF receptor. SH‐EP cells, a clone derived from the same neuroblastoma cell line as SH‐SY5Y but which displays melanocyte rather than neuronal lineage markers, also express significantly more EGF receptor than SH‐SY5Y cells. By nucleic acid hybridization analysis with a molecularly cloned probe, increased receptor level in multidrug‐resistant cells was shown to be the result of higher levels of EGF receptor mRNA in drug‐resistant than in drug‐sensitive cells. The increased steady state amount of specific RNA did not result from amplification of receptor‐encoding genes. A small difference was observed in the electrophoretic mobility under denaturing conditions of EGF receptor immunoprecipitated from drug‐resistant and drug‐sensitive cells. Quantitative and qualitative modulation of the EGF receptor might reflect alterations in the transformation and/or differentiation phenotype of the resistant cells or might result from unknown selective pressures associated with the development of multidrug resistance. Copyright © 1988 Alan R. Liss, Inc.
Keywords: human cell; cells, cultured; epidermal growth factor receptor; vincristine; cell differentiation; receptor, epidermal growth factor; drug resistance; phosphorylation; rna; cell culture; neuroblastoma; neuroblastoma cell; cell transformation; immunoprecipitation; dactinomycin; blotting, northern; electrophoresis; binding assay; egf receptor; blotting, southern; human neuroblastoma; human; support, non-u.s. gov't; support, u.s. gov't, p.h.s.; multidrug‐resistance; transformation/differentiation
Journal Title: Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0730-2312
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons  
Date Published: 1988-10-01
Start Page: 87
End Page: 97
Language: English
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240380203
PUBMED: 2464605
PROVIDER: scopus
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  2. June   Biedler
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  3. David B. Donner
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  4. Marian B. Meyers
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  5. Mark Furth
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