Identification of hypermethylated genes associated with cisplatin resistance in human cancers.

ABSTRACT: Cisplatin is among the most widely used cytotoxic anticancer agents in solid tumors; however, the development of secondary resistance remains a major obstacle to clinical efficacy. Treatment-related DNA hypermethylation may play a role in creating drug-resistant phenotypes by inactivating genes that are required for cytotoxicity. We applied a pharmacologic unmasking approach to detect hypermethylated genes whose inactivation contributes to cisplatin resistance. Using three pairs of isogeneic, cisplatin-sensitive, and cisplatin-resistant cell lines derived from two parental cell lines (KB-3-1 and SCC25), we identified several hundred genes that were downregulated in each resistant cell line and reactivated by the DNA methyltransferase inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. Among them, 30 genes w

SUBMITTER: Chang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849007 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature