| Literature DB >> 23267433 |
Tony Huynh1, Murray D Norris, Michelle Haber, Michelle J Henderson.
Abstract
Resistance to cytotoxic drugs is thought to be a major cause of treatment failure in childhood neuroblastoma, and members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily may contribute to this phenomenon by active efflux of chemotherapeutic agents from cancer cells. As a member of the C subfamily of ABC transporters, multidrug resistance-associated protein MRP4/ABCC4 has the ability to export a variety of endogenous and exogenous substances across the plasma membrane. In light of its capacity for chemotherapeutic drug efflux, MRP4 has been studied in the context of drug resistance in a number of cancer cell types. However, MRP4 also influences cancer cell biology independently of chemotherapeutic drug exposure, which highlights the potential importance of endogenous MRP4 substrates in cancer biology. Furthermore, MRP4 is a direct transcriptional target of Myc family oncoproteins and expression of this transporter is a powerful independent predictor of clinical outcome in neuroblastoma. Together, these features suggest that inhibition of MRP4 may be an attractive therapeutic approach for neuroblastoma and other cancers that rely on MRP4. In this respect, existing options for MRP4 inhibition are relatively non-selective and thus development of more specific anti-MRP4 compounds should be a major focus of future work in this area.Entities:
Keywords: ATP-binding cassette transporter protein; MRP4/ABCC4; neuroblastoma
Year: 2012 PMID: 23267433 PMCID: PMC3526013 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00178
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Oncol ISSN: 2234-943X Impact factor: 6.244
Drug and endogenous substrates of MRP4.
| Folic acid | Leucovorin | Cyclic and | cGMP |
| DNA | Topotecan | Purine | Urate |
| Eicosanoids | PGE[ | ||
| Anti-viral | Adefovir[ | Folates | Folic acid |
| PMEA[ | Bile acids | Cholate | |
| Ceftizoxime | Cholytaurine | ||
| Tenofovir[ | |||
| Anti-metabolite | 6-Mercaptopurine[ | Conjugated | DHEAS |
| Methotrexate | |||
PMEA, para-methoxyethylamphetamine; PG, prostaglandin; cGMP, cyclic-guanosine monophosphate; cAMP, cyclic-adenosine monophosphate; ADP, adenosine diphosphate; DHEAS, dehydroepiandrosterone; E217βG, estradiol-17-β-D-glucuronide.
Table modified from Russel et al. (2008)
Norris et al., 2005
Schuetz et al., 1999
Janke et al., 2008
Relevant to neuroblastoma treatment; camptothecins
Nucleotide and nucleoside analog drugs.
MRP4 inhibitors and their selectivity.
| Dipyridamole | Nucleoside transport inhibition | P-gp, MRP1 |
| Sildenafil | PDE5 inhibitor | MDR1, BCRP |
| MK571 | Leukotriene antagonist | MRP1, MRP2, MRP5 |
| Indomethacin | Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory | MRP1, MRP2 |
| Celecoxib | COX-2 inhibitor | MRP1 |
| Probenecid | Organic anion | MRP2, MRP3 |
| Sulindac | Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory | MRP2 |
| Losartan | Angiotensin II type I receptor antagonist | P-gp |
| Quercetin | Flavonoid | MRP1, MRP2, MRP5 |