Drug resistance remains a major challenge in breast cancer chemotherapy,yet the metabolic alterations underlying this phenomenon are not fully understood.There is much evidence indicating the cellular heterogeneity am...Drug resistance remains a major challenge in breast cancer chemotherapy,yet the metabolic alterations underlying this phenomenon are not fully understood.There is much evidence indicating the cellular heterogeneity among cancer cells,which exhibit varying degrees of metabolic reprogramming and thus may result in differential contributions to drug resistance.A home-built single-cell quantitative mass spectrometry(MS)platform,which integrates micromanipulation and electro-osmotic sampling,was developed to quantitatively profile the tricarboxylic acid(TCA)cycle metabolites at the single-cell level.Using this platform,the metabolic profiles of drug-sensitive MCF-7 breast cancer cells and their drug-resistant derivative MCF-7/ADR cells were compared.This results revealed a selective upregulation of downstream TCA cycle metabolites includingα-ketoglutarate,succinate,fumarate,and malate in drug-resistant cancer cells,while early TCA metabolites remained largely unchanged.Furthermore,notable variations in the abundance of the metabolites were observed in individual cells.The comparative analysis also revealed that not all MCF-7/ADR cells exhibit the same degree of metabolic deviation from the parental line in the metabolites during resistance acquisition.The observed metabolic profiles indicate enhanced glutaminolysis,altered mitochondrial electron transport chain activity,and increased metabolic flexibility in drug-resistant cancer cells that support their survival under chemotherapeutic stress.The findings further suggest the potential for incorporating cellular metabolic heterogeneity into future drug resistance studies.展开更多
Multidrug resistance(MDR)is a serious obstacle encountered in cancer treatment.This study was performed to explore the reversal MDR activity of ivermectin(IVM)from avermectin family and moxidectin(MOX)belonging to mil...Multidrug resistance(MDR)is a serious obstacle encountered in cancer treatment.This study was performed to explore the reversal MDR activity of ivermectin(IVM)from avermectin family and moxidectin(MOX)belonging to milbemycin family.The two compounds(5μmol•L-1)showed strong potency to increase adriamycin cytotoxicity toward adriamycin-resistant rat glioma cells C6/adr with fold reversal(FR)of 31.02 and 13.40,respectively.In addition,the mechanisms of them on p-glycoprotein(P-gp)-mediated MDR demonstrated that the two compounds significantly increased the intracellular accumulations of adriamycin and Rh123 via inhibiting P-gp efflux.Based on the analysis of P-gp,MDR1 and MRP1 gene expressions by using immunofluorescence flow cytometry and RT-PCR,the results revealed that the two compounds could down regulate the expression of P-gp,and that MDR1 and MRP1 gene expressions were down regulated.These findings suggested that ivermectin and moxidectin probably represented potent agents for reversing MDR in cancer therapy,and especially ivermectin was a better modulator.展开更多
Abscract:OBJECTIVE To detect the reversal effect of Guizhi Fuling Wan on cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer SKOV3/DDP cells and its relationship with protein expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog(PTEN) and meta...Abscract:OBJECTIVE To detect the reversal effect of Guizhi Fuling Wan on cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer SKOV3/DDP cells and its relationship with protein expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog(PTEN) and metadherin(MTDH).METHODS Guizhi Fuling Wan(GFW) concentrated solution was prepared according to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2015 edition,Wistar rats were given GFW viagavage at 4 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),8 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),16 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),or given saline as blank control for 5 days.Blood samples were taken and the corresponding drug-containing low-dose sera,medium-dose sear,highdose sera and blank sera were prepared.The XCELLigence RTCA S16 real-time label-free cell analyzer was used to detect the reversal effect by the sera combined with cisplatin or paclitaxel in SKOV3/DDP cells.Annexin V-FITC and PI double-staining were used to detect the apoptosis-inducing effect of the sera in the cells.RT-qPCR and western blot were used to detect the mRNA and protein expression of PTEN and MTDH after the cells treated with the sera.RESULTS The inhibition rate of low-dose sera against SKOV3/DDP cells was less than 5%.After the low-dose sera combined with cisplatin or pacli.taxel,the IC50 of SKOV3/DDP cells against cisplatin and paclitaxel decreased by 3.01 and 1.79-fold,respectively.The total apoptosis rates induced by the low-dose sera,medium-dose sear,high-dose sera and blank sera in SKOV3/DDP cells were 11.08±0.13,19.42±0.30,24.23±0.31,and 3.21±0.24,respec.tively;there was a significant difference between the groups(P<0.01).RT-qPCR results showed that,compared with the blank serum,the sera can up-regulate the expression of PTEN mRNA and downregulate the expression of MTDH mRNA in a dose-dependent manner.Western blot results showed that the induction effect to PTEN protein and the inhibition effect to MTDH protein by the sera were gradually enhanced with thesera dose increasement.CONCLUSION The resistance reversal effect of Guizhi Fuling Wan on ovarian cancer SKOV3/DDP cells may be related to the inhibition of MTDH,up-regulation of PTEN and induction of apoptosis,providing with an experiment basis for the applica.tion of Guizhi Fuling Wan as a reversal agent for chemotherapy resistance of ovarian cancer.展开更多
Industrial applications of aluminium and its alloys are restricted because of their poor tribological properties. Thermal spraying, laser surfacing, electron beam welding are the most widely used techniques to alter t...Industrial applications of aluminium and its alloys are restricted because of their poor tribological properties. Thermal spraying, laser surfacing, electron beam welding are the most widely used techniques to alter the surface morphology of base metal. Preliminary studies reveal that the coating and layering of aluminium alloys with ceramic particles enhance the ballistic resistance. Furthermore, among aluminium alloys,7075 aluminium alloy exhibits high strength which can be compared to that of steels and has profound applications in the designing of lightweight fortification structures and integrated protection systems. Having limitations such as poor bond integrity, formation of detrimental phases and interfacial reaction between reinforcement and substrate using fusion route to deposit hard particles paves the way to adopt friction stir processing for fabricating surface composites using different sizes of boron carbide particles as reinforcement on armour grade 7075 aluminium alloy as matrix in the present investigation. Wear and ballistic tests were carried out to assess the performance of friction stir processed AA7075 alloy. Significant improvement in wear resistance of friction stir processed surface composites is attributed to the change in wear mechanism from abrasion to adhesion. It has also been observed that the surface metal matrix composites have shown better ballistic resistance compared to the substrate AA7075 alloy. Addition of solid lubricant Mo S2 has reduced the depth of penetration of the projectile to half that of base metal AA7075 alloy. For the first time, the friction stir processing technique was successfully used to improve the wear and ballistic resistances of armour grade high strength AA7075 alloy.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(22374080,22174068,21722504)Primary Research&Development Plan of Jiangsu Province(BK20221303,BE2022796)+1 种基金Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine(SKLRM-2022BP1,JX116GSP20240507)Science and Technology Development Fund of NJMU(NJMUQY2022003)。
文摘Drug resistance remains a major challenge in breast cancer chemotherapy,yet the metabolic alterations underlying this phenomenon are not fully understood.There is much evidence indicating the cellular heterogeneity among cancer cells,which exhibit varying degrees of metabolic reprogramming and thus may result in differential contributions to drug resistance.A home-built single-cell quantitative mass spectrometry(MS)platform,which integrates micromanipulation and electro-osmotic sampling,was developed to quantitatively profile the tricarboxylic acid(TCA)cycle metabolites at the single-cell level.Using this platform,the metabolic profiles of drug-sensitive MCF-7 breast cancer cells and their drug-resistant derivative MCF-7/ADR cells were compared.This results revealed a selective upregulation of downstream TCA cycle metabolites includingα-ketoglutarate,succinate,fumarate,and malate in drug-resistant cancer cells,while early TCA metabolites remained largely unchanged.Furthermore,notable variations in the abundance of the metabolites were observed in individual cells.The comparative analysis also revealed that not all MCF-7/ADR cells exhibit the same degree of metabolic deviation from the parental line in the metabolites during resistance acquisition.The observed metabolic profiles indicate enhanced glutaminolysis,altered mitochondrial electron transport chain activity,and increased metabolic flexibility in drug-resistant cancer cells that support their survival under chemotherapeutic stress.The findings further suggest the potential for incorporating cellular metabolic heterogeneity into future drug resistance studies.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81201723)。
文摘Multidrug resistance(MDR)is a serious obstacle encountered in cancer treatment.This study was performed to explore the reversal MDR activity of ivermectin(IVM)from avermectin family and moxidectin(MOX)belonging to milbemycin family.The two compounds(5μmol•L-1)showed strong potency to increase adriamycin cytotoxicity toward adriamycin-resistant rat glioma cells C6/adr with fold reversal(FR)of 31.02 and 13.40,respectively.In addition,the mechanisms of them on p-glycoprotein(P-gp)-mediated MDR demonstrated that the two compounds significantly increased the intracellular accumulations of adriamycin and Rh123 via inhibiting P-gp efflux.Based on the analysis of P-gp,MDR1 and MRP1 gene expressions by using immunofluorescence flow cytometry and RT-PCR,the results revealed that the two compounds could down regulate the expression of P-gp,and that MDR1 and MRP1 gene expressions were down regulated.These findings suggested that ivermectin and moxidectin probably represented potent agents for reversing MDR in cancer therapy,and especially ivermectin was a better modulator.
文摘以经产荷斯坦奶牛外周血白细胞为材料,分离Poly(A)+ RNA,反转录合成单链及双链cDNA,经酶切成平均大小为400～600 bp的片段,将患乳房炎奶牛cDNA分成2组,分别与2种不同的接头连接,再与健康奶牛cDNA进行2次消减杂交和2次抑制性PCR扩增,将第2次PCR产物与pGEM-T载体连接,转化大肠杆菌TOP10感受态细胞进行文库扩增,构建了具有高消减效率的奶牛乳房炎抗性相关cDNA文库.文库扩增后得到610个白色阳性克隆,随机挑选克隆进行PCR鉴定,插入片段主要分布在250～750 bp 之间.文库的成功构建为进一步筛选、克隆与奶牛乳房炎抗性相关的基因奠定了基础,对研究奶牛乳房炎抗性的分子机制以及乳房炎的综合防制具有重要意义.
基金supported by Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (162300410204)
文摘Abscract:OBJECTIVE To detect the reversal effect of Guizhi Fuling Wan on cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer SKOV3/DDP cells and its relationship with protein expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog(PTEN) and metadherin(MTDH).METHODS Guizhi Fuling Wan(GFW) concentrated solution was prepared according to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2015 edition,Wistar rats were given GFW viagavage at 4 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),8 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),16 g·kg^(-1)·d^(-1),or given saline as blank control for 5 days.Blood samples were taken and the corresponding drug-containing low-dose sera,medium-dose sear,highdose sera and blank sera were prepared.The XCELLigence RTCA S16 real-time label-free cell analyzer was used to detect the reversal effect by the sera combined with cisplatin or paclitaxel in SKOV3/DDP cells.Annexin V-FITC and PI double-staining were used to detect the apoptosis-inducing effect of the sera in the cells.RT-qPCR and western blot were used to detect the mRNA and protein expression of PTEN and MTDH after the cells treated with the sera.RESULTS The inhibition rate of low-dose sera against SKOV3/DDP cells was less than 5%.After the low-dose sera combined with cisplatin or pacli.taxel,the IC50 of SKOV3/DDP cells against cisplatin and paclitaxel decreased by 3.01 and 1.79-fold,respectively.The total apoptosis rates induced by the low-dose sera,medium-dose sear,high-dose sera and blank sera in SKOV3/DDP cells were 11.08±0.13,19.42±0.30,24.23±0.31,and 3.21±0.24,respec.tively;there was a significant difference between the groups(P<0.01).RT-qPCR results showed that,compared with the blank serum,the sera can up-regulate the expression of PTEN mRNA and downregulate the expression of MTDH mRNA in a dose-dependent manner.Western blot results showed that the induction effect to PTEN protein and the inhibition effect to MTDH protein by the sera were gradually enhanced with thesera dose increasement.CONCLUSION The resistance reversal effect of Guizhi Fuling Wan on ovarian cancer SKOV3/DDP cells may be related to the inhibition of MTDH,up-regulation of PTEN and induction of apoptosis,providing with an experiment basis for the applica.tion of Guizhi Fuling Wan as a reversal agent for chemotherapy resistance of ovarian cancer.
基金Financial assistance from Armament Research Board, New Delhi, India
文摘Industrial applications of aluminium and its alloys are restricted because of their poor tribological properties. Thermal spraying, laser surfacing, electron beam welding are the most widely used techniques to alter the surface morphology of base metal. Preliminary studies reveal that the coating and layering of aluminium alloys with ceramic particles enhance the ballistic resistance. Furthermore, among aluminium alloys,7075 aluminium alloy exhibits high strength which can be compared to that of steels and has profound applications in the designing of lightweight fortification structures and integrated protection systems. Having limitations such as poor bond integrity, formation of detrimental phases and interfacial reaction between reinforcement and substrate using fusion route to deposit hard particles paves the way to adopt friction stir processing for fabricating surface composites using different sizes of boron carbide particles as reinforcement on armour grade 7075 aluminium alloy as matrix in the present investigation. Wear and ballistic tests were carried out to assess the performance of friction stir processed AA7075 alloy. Significant improvement in wear resistance of friction stir processed surface composites is attributed to the change in wear mechanism from abrasion to adhesion. It has also been observed that the surface metal matrix composites have shown better ballistic resistance compared to the substrate AA7075 alloy. Addition of solid lubricant Mo S2 has reduced the depth of penetration of the projectile to half that of base metal AA7075 alloy. For the first time, the friction stir processing technique was successfully used to improve the wear and ballistic resistances of armour grade high strength AA7075 alloy.
