1. Anion exchanger 2 mediates the action of arsenic trioxide
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Xiao-Yan Pan, Guo-Hui Fu, Guo-Qiang Chen, Stephen Buscemi, and Li Cai
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Programmed cell death ,Cell Survival ,SLC4A Proteins ,Intracellular pH ,Anion Transport Proteins ,Blotting, Western ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Apoptosis ,Antiporters ,Arsenicals ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Arsenic Trioxide ,Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute ,Cell Line, Tumor ,medicine ,Humans ,Annexin A5 ,Arsenic trioxide ,Arsenic ,CD11b Antigen ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Chemistry ,Oxides ,Biological activity ,Hematology ,Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ,Flow Cytometry ,Molecular biology ,CD11c Antigen ,Mechanism of action ,Biochemistry ,DIDS ,medicine.symptom ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Anion exchanger 2 (AE2) mediates the exchange of C1-/HCO3- across the plasma membrane and plays a role in the regulation of intracellular pH. The present study showed that AE2 protein expression was upregulated immediately after exposure to either low (0.5 micromol/l) or high (1 and 2 micromol/l) concentrations of arsenic trioxide. This suggests that arsenic trioxide may act via regulation of intracellular pH. Changing the culture pH in NB4 cells modulated the degradation of promyelocytic leukaemia-retinoic acid receptor-alpha (PML-RARalpha), PML and RARalpha, which supported this hypothesis. DIDS (4,4'-diisothiocyanodihydrostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid) inhibited AE2 function, preventing the arsenic trioxide-induced degradation of RARalpha and low concentration showed synergistic effects on the expression of CD11c, which is related with cell differentiation. In addition, DIDS rescued the cells from 1 micromol/l arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis. In conclusion, AE2 mediated the action of arsenic trioxide via regulation of intracellular pH and a novel pathway for the mechanism of action of arsenic trioxide is reported.
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- 2006
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