Hemin reduces cellular sensitivity to imatinib and anthracyclins via Nrf2 |
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Authors: | Nagai Tadashi Kikuchi Satoru Ohmine Ken Miyoshi Takuji Nakamura Makiko Kondo Takahito Furuyama Kazumichi Komatsu Norio Ozawa Keiya |
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Affiliation: | Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan. t-nagai@jichi.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Heme plays an important biomodulating role in various cell functions. In this study, we examined the effects of hemin on cellular sensitivity to imatinib and other anti-leukemia reagents. Hemin treatment of human BCR/ABL-positive KCL22 leukemia cells increased IC(50) values of imatinib, that is, the drug resistance, in a dose-dependent manner without any change in the BCR/ABL kinase activity. Imatinib-induced apoptosis was also suppressed by hemin treatment in KCL22 cells. Hemin treatment increased the activity of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) light subunit gene promoter, which contains a Maf recognition element (MARE). Protein levels of gamma-GCS and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), two MARE-containing genes, were also increased after hemin treatment. Knockdown of Nrf2 expression by RNA interference largely abolished the effect of hemin on imatinib-treated cells, suggesting that Nrf2 recognition of MARE is essential for the hemin-mediated protective effect. Similar to hemin, treatment of cells with delta-aminolevulinic acid (delta-ALA), the obligatory heme precursor, also increased IC(50) values of imatinib. In contrast, inhibition of cellular heme synthesis by succinylacetone increased the sensitivity of cells to imatinib in two imatinib-resistant cell lines, KCL22/SR and KU812/SR. Hemin treatment also decreased the sensitivity of cells to four anthracyclins, daunorubicin, idarubicin, doxorubicin, and mitoxantrone, in BCR/ABL-negative leukemia U937 and THP-1 cells, as well as in KCL22 cells. These findings thus indicate that cellular heme level plays an important role in determining the sensitivity of cells to imatinib and certain other anti-leukemia drugs and that the effect of heme may be mediated via its ability to upregulate Nrf2 activity. |
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Keywords: | heme imatinib anthracyclin Nrf2 KCL22 drug resistance |
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