Transmembrane transporters ABCC – structure, function and role in multidrug resistance of cancer cells

Journal Title: Advances in Hygiene and Experimental Medicine - Year 2011, Vol 65, Issue 0

Abstract

Resistance to cytotoxic drugs is a significant problem of systemic treatment of cancers. Apart from drug inactivation, changes in target enzymes and proteins, increased DNA repair and suppression of apoptosis, an important mechanism of resistance is an active drug efflux from cancer cells. Drug efflux across the cell membrane is caused by transport proteins such as ABC proteins (ATP-binding cassette). This review focuses on the ABCC protein subfamily, whose members are responsible for multidrug cross-resistance of cancer cells to cytotoxic agents. The authors discuss the structure of ABCC proteins, their physiological function and diseases provoked by mutations of respective genes, their expression in many different malignancies and its connection with resistance to anticancer drugs, as well as methods of reversion of such resistance.

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Sylwia Dębska, Agata Owecka, Urszula Czernek, Katarzyna Szydłowska-Pazera, Maja Habib, Piotr Potemski

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Sylwia Dębska, Agata Owecka, Urszula Czernek, Katarzyna Szydłowska-Pazera, Maja Habib, Piotr Potemski (2011). Transmembrane transporters ABCC – structure, function and role in multidrug resistance of cancer cells. Advances in Hygiene and Experimental Medicine, 65(0), 552-561. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-66528