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Published on: November 10, 2017
[The relationship between cyclin B1 and multidrug resistance in adult patients with acute leukemia]
Wei-dong Ma1, Shi-rong Xu, Xiao-nan Guo
1Department of Hematology, The Second Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050000, China. hbxushirong@haoyisheng.com.cn
Objective:
To investigate the relation between the expression of cyclin B1 and multidrug resistance in adult patients with acute leukemia.
Methods:
The proteins expression of cyclin B1, p170 was measured with flow cytometric analysis in 85 adult de novo acute leukemia patients (AL) and 17 normal control (NC). The expression of cyclin B1, multidrug resistance gene (mdr-1), topoisomerase IIalpha, beta (TOPOIIalpha, beta) and bcl-2 mRNA in these patients was measured with semi-quantify reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
Results:
(1) The expression of cyclin B1 protein (M = 12.3%) and mRNA (M = 0.217) in the treatment resistance group was significantly lower than the sensitive group cyclin B1 protein (M = 22.7%) and mRNA (M = 0.563) (P < 0.05), so was the mRNA of TOPOIIalpha (M = 0.236), TOPOIIbeta (M = 0.328) than the sensitive group TOPOIIalpha (M = 0.514), TOPOIIbeta (M = 0.635) (P < 0.01). Cyclin B1 protein expression was lower than 5% and there were no expression of cyclin B1, TOPOIIalpha, mdr-1 mRNA in the NC group under the same condition. (2) The p170 protein (M = 14.3%) and mdr-1 (M = 1.071), bcl-2 (M = 0.941) mRNA expression in the resistant group was significant higher than the sensitive group p170 protein (M = 3.6%) and mdr-1 (M = 0.094), bcl-2 (M = 0.153) (P < 0.01). (3) The expression of cyclin B1 protein and TOPOIIalpha, TOPOIIbeta mRNA was positive correlated (r(TOPOIIalpha) = 0.472, P < 0.01; r(TOPOIIbeta) = 0.683, P < 0.01), so was the cyclin B1 mRNA (r(TOPOIIalpha) = 0.319, P < 0.05; r(TOPOIIbeta) = 0.527, P < 0.05). (4) There was no correlation between cyclin B1 and p170, mdr-1, bcl-2. (5) By Binary logistic forward conditional analysis we concluded that cyclin B1 correlated with atypital mutidrug resistance.
Conclusions:
Low expression of cyclin B1 might be a unfavorable prognostic factor for patients with AL and measurement of both cyclin B1 and TOPOIIalpha, TOPOIIbeta gene expression would predict drug resistance in adult acute leukemia patients.
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