Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Arti Shukla
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21750 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Shukla Arti A Hillegass Jedd M JM MacPherson Maximilian B MB Beuschel Stacie L SL Vacek Pamela M PM Pass Harvey I HI Carbone Michele M Testa Joseph R JR Mossman Brooke T BT
Molecular cancer 20101215
<h4>Background</h4>Malignant mesotheliomas (MM) have a poor prognosis, largely because of their chemoresistance to anti-cancer drugs such as doxorubicin (Dox). Here we show using human MM lines that Dox activates extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK1 and 2), causally linked to increased expression of ABC transporter genes, decreased accumulation of Dox, and enhanced MM growth. Using the MEK1/2 inhibitor, U0126 and stably transfected shERK1 and shERK2 MM cell lines, we show that inhibition ...[more]