Glycan Alteration Imparts Cellular Resistance to a Membrane-Lytic Anticancer Peptide.

ABSTRACT: Although resistance toward small-molecule chemotherapeutics has been well studied, the potential of tumor cells to avoid destruction by membrane-lytic compounds remains unexplored. Anticancer peptides (ACPs) are a class of such agents that disrupt tumor cell membranes through rapid and non-stereospecific mechanisms, encouraging the perception that cellular resistance toward ACPs is unlikely to occur. We demonstrate that eukaryotic cells can, indeed, develop resistance to the model oncolytic peptide SVS-1, which preferentially disrupts the membranes of cancer cells. Utilizing fission yeast as a model organism, we show that ACP resistance is largely controlled through the loss of cell-surface anionic saccharides. A similar mechanism was discovered in mammalian cancer cells where removal of n

SUBMITTER: Ishikawa K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5316350 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature