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Discovery of Novel Doxorubicin Metabolites in MCF7 Doxorubicin-Resistant Cells

  • Xu Wang (Co-first Author)
  • , Renjie Hui (Co-first Author)
  • , Yun Chen
  • , Wentao Wang
  • , Yujiao Chen
  • , Xiaohai Gong
  • , Jian Jin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Doxorubicin (DOX) is metabolized to a variety of metabolites in vivo, which has been shown to be associated with cardiotoxicity. We speculate that metabolic processes are also present in tumor cells. A LC-MS/MS method was developed to detect intracellular metabolites. Drug resistant tumor cells with high drug stress tolerance and metabolically active are suitable as materials for this study. Our results show difference in drug metabolites between the wild-type and drug-resistant cells. Three novel doxorubicin metabolites were discovered after the LC-MS/MS analysis. All these metabolites and their profiles of metabolites are totally different from that in liver or kidney in vivo. Our results suggest that tumor cells and drug-resistant tumor cells have a unique drug metabolism pathway for doxorubicin. Copyright © 2019 Wang, Hui, Chen, Wang, Chen, Gong and Jin.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1434
JournalFrontiers in Pharmacology
Volume10
Online published6 Dec 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Copyright © 2019 Wang, Hui, Chen, Wang, Chen, Gong and Jin.

Funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30772586 and 81361168001) and The Clinical Science and Technology Projects (Grant No. BL2014019).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Research Keywords

  • drug resistant
  • doxorubicin
  • intracellular drug metabolism
  • LC-MS/MS
  • breast cancer

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