ELISA assays, Western blot analyses, and TUNEL staining showed that NET1 contributes to ALL cell doxorubicin resistance, whereas NET1 inhibition reduces resistance.
We studied the expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), multidrug resistance (MDR)-associated protein (MRP), and major vault protein/lung resistance protein (LRP) in 141 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 27 with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by flow cytometry.
Overexpression of the multidrug resistance gene, MDR1, is of prognostic relevance in acute myeloid leukemia, while its role in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is still under debate.
This in vitro study suggests that bcr-abl-positive ALL is relatively resistant to daunorubicin, but this resistance is not mediated through mdr1 gene expression.
We found a high frequency of MDR1 gene expression: 10 out of 20 with de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 8 out of 17 with de novo acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and none of the 3 with de novo acute mixed leukemia, were MDR1 mRNA-positive.
In whole ALL, CD13/CD33 was associated closely with the presence of stem-cell antigen CD34, and in T-lineage ALL, CD13/CD33 had a significant correlation with additional stem-cell features, such as HLA-DR, multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) and c-kit gene expression.
In order to investigate the phenomenon of multidrug resistance as a possible mechanism for poor response to treatment in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from India, a series of 32 cases of de novo untreated ALLs were analyzed by a cDNA-PCR approach to estimate the relative mRNA levels of the MDR-associated genes encoding MDR1, MRP, GSTpi, and GSTmu.
This meta-analysis suggests there was no association between MDR1C3435T polymorphism and children ALL risk in overall populations, but significant association with an increased risk in Asians.
From this study, it is clear that P-gp/170 is expressed to a higher degree in leukemic cells and this is greater in relapsed compared to de novo cases and more in AML than ALL blasts.
We examined ABCB5 gene expression using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in leukemia cells from 29 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), 24 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), 42 with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 22 with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), 17 with lymphoma and 10 with multiple myeloma (MM).
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most prevalent cancer among children, and multidrug efflux mediated by overexpression of ABC transporters is the major impediment to successful chemotherapy in this malignancy.
Considering the direct and significant relationship between the increased expression of ABCA2, ABCA3, MDR1, and MRP1 genes and positive risk of MRD in children with ALL, evaluating the expression profile of these genes on diagnosis may identify high risk individuals and help plan a more efficient treatment strategy.
Since the resistance of BALL‑1/VCR cells is potentially attributed to the overexpression of MDR‑associated protein 1 (MRP1), the development of drug resistance in relapsed ALL may associated with the overexpression of MRP1 and P‑glycoprotein.
We found a concomitant increase in mdr1 and mrp gene expression combined with a decreased expression of topoisomerase II alpha in the course of the second relapse of an acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of ABCC1-6 gene expression pattern for estimating recurrence in Iranian pediatric patients with ALL.
Using, semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 167 patients of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from India at different stages of the disease (presentation 125, remission 33, first relapse nine), MRP1 and GSTpi expression were significantly higher at relapse than presentation (P=0.03 and P=0.01, respectively) and remission (P=0.007 and P=0.003, respectively).
High expression of MDR1 and BCL-2 in AML and MRP1 gene in ALL was associated with response to induction chemotherapy (p=0.001, p=0.02 and p=0.007 respectively).
The findings suggest that high MRP1 expression was associated with poor clinical outcome and was correlated with the M5 subtype and poor cytogenetic subgroups among AML patients but not among ALL patients.
In this study the expression of the MRP2, MRP3, MRP4, MRP5, and SMRP genes was measured using TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 103 children with previously untreated acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (precursor B-cell ALL [B-ALL], n = 71; T-cell ALL [T-ALL], n = 32).