Journal: International Journal of Oncology
Article Title: Drug resistance-related sunitinib sequestration in autophagolysosomes of endothelial cells
doi: 10.3892/ijo.2019.4924
Figure Lengend Snippet: Induction of drug resistance in HMEC-1 cells and sunitinib-induced activation of autophagy. (A) Replication times of cultured HMEC-1 cells in the presence of indicated concentrations of sunitinib. Data were calculated from more than two repetitions. (B) Evolution of the IC50 of sunitinib in HMEC-1 cells after treatment with 6 µ M sunitinib for different time periods. (C) Plotted survival rates of HMEC-1 cells and sunitinib-resistant HMEC 6 µ M cells. Normal HMEC-1 cells and sunitinib-resistant HMEC 6 µ M cells were exposed to the indicated concentrations of sunitinib for 72 h, and the cells were trypsinized and counted. Non-treated cells were set as 100%. (A-C) Curves are derived from the means of more than three experiments. (D) LysoTracker DND-99 density of HMEC-1 cells following incubation with 6 µ M sunitinib for different time periods. Cells were treated with sunitinib for 24 or 48 h and LysoTracker DND-99 was added followed by flow cytometric analysis. (E) LysoTracker DND-99 density of sunitinib-treated HMEC-1 cells and HMEC 6 µ M cells. The cells were washed five times and then incubated with LysoTracker DND-99. Fluorescence was measured with the control cells without LysoTracker DND-99 staining using flow cytometry. (F-H) Western blot analysis using anti-LAMP-1, anti-LC3 and anti-p62 antibodies. HMEC-1 and HMEC 6 µ M cells were exposed to 6 µ M sunitinib, or autophagy inducer 5 µ M rapamycin, or Hanks' media for 24 h. Subsequently, the cells were collected and extracted proteins were used for western blotting. The experiments were repeated at least three times. * P<0.05 vs. control HMEC-1 cells. (I) Colocalization of LC3 protein labeling with green sunitinib fluorescence. HMEC-1 and HMEC 6 µ M cells were treated with 6 µ M sunitinib for 24 h. Subsequently, the cells were stained with anti-LC3 (red fluorescence) (magnification, ×100). DAPI was added to stain the nuclei. (J) Colocalization of LAMP-1 protein labeling with green sunitinib fluorescence. HMEC-1 and HMEC 6 µ M cells were treated with 6 µ M sunitinib for 24 h. Subsequently, the cells were stained with anti-LAMP-1 (red fluorescence) (magnification, ×100). DAPI was added to stain the nuclei. LAMP-1, lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1; LC3, microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3; SQSTM1, sequestosome 1; Suni, sunitinib.
Article Snippet: Anti-microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3 (LC3; cat. no. 0231-100/LC3-5F10) was obtained from Enzo Life Sciences, Inc.; anti-lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1 (LAMP-1; H4A3; cat. no. sc-20011) was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.; anti-sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1)/p62 (cat. no. 5114) was obtained from Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.; horseradish peroxidase-labeled anti-rabbit/mouse IgG antibodies (cat. no. 31460/31430) were obtained from Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.; anti-β-actin (cat. no. A5316) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA; goat anti-mouse IgG and goat anti-rabbit IgG coupled to Alexa Fluor 594 (cat. no. A-11005/A-11012) were also obtained from Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. Bafilomycin A1 (BAF; 10 nM) and chloroquine (CQ; 20 µ M) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA; sunitinib was from Selleck Chemicals; and Lyso-ER, Lyso-NIR and DAPI were purchased from Abcam.
Techniques: Activation Assay, Cell Culture, Derivative Assay, Incubation, Fluorescence, Staining, Flow Cytometry, Western Blot, Labeling