Regulators of mitotic arrest and ceramide metabolism are determinants of sensitivity to paclitaxel and other chemotherapeutic drugs - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2007 Jun;11(6):498-512.

doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2007.04.011.

Michela Marani, Olivier Pardo, Patricia H Warne, Gavin Kelly, Erik Sahai, Frédéric Elustondo, Jenny Chang, Jillian Temple, Ahmed A Ahmed, James D Brenton, Julian Downward, Barbara Nicke

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Regulators of mitotic arrest and ceramide metabolism are determinants of sensitivity to paclitaxel and other chemotherapeutic drugs

Charles Swanton et al. Cancer Cell. 2007 Jun.

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Abstract

Cytotoxic drug resistance is a major cause of cancer treatment failure. We report an RNA interference screen to identify genes influencing sensitivity of different cancer cell types to chemotherapeutic agents. A set of genes whose targeting leads to resistance to paclitaxel is identified, many of which are involved in the spindle assembly checkpoint. Silencing these genes attenuates paclitaxel-induced mitotic arrest and induces polyploidy in the absence of drug. We also identify a ceramide transport protein, COL4A3BP or CERT, whose downregulation sensitizes cancer cells to multiple cytotoxic agents, potentiating endoplasmic reticulum stress. COL4A3BP expression is increased in drug-resistant cell lines and in residual tumor following paclitaxel treatment of ovarian cancer, suggesting that it could be a target for chemotherapy-resistant cancers.

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