ORIGINAL PAPERS PK11195 potently sensitizes to apoptosis induction independently from the peripheral benzodiazepin receptor Rosa-Ana Gonzalez-Polo1, Gabrielle Carvalho1, Thorsten Braun1, Didier Decaudin2, Claire Fabre1, Nathanael Larochette1, Jean-Luc Perfettini1, Mojgan Djavaheri-Mergny3, Ibtissam Youlyouz-Marfak4, Patrice Codogno3, Martine Raphael5, Jean Feuillard4 and Guido Kroemer*,1 1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR8125, Institut Gustave Roussy, Pavillon de Recherche 1, 39 rue Camille-Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif, France; 2Department of Hematology, Institut Curie, 75005 Paris, France; 3Institut Andre Lwoff , INSERM U504, 16 avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France; 4Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR CNRS 6101 et Laboratoire d'Hematologie, faculte de Medicine et CHU Dupuytren, Limoges, France; 5Service d'Hematologie Biologique, U473, CHU Kremlin Bicetre, France 1-(2-Chlorophenyl-N-methylpropyl)-3-isoquinolinecarbox- amide (PK11195) is a prototypic ligand of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), a mitochondrial outer membrane protein. PK11195 can be used to chemosensitize tumor cells to a variety of chemotherapeutic agents, both in vitro and in vivo. PK11195 has been suggested to exert this effect via inhibition of the multiple drug resistance (MDR) pump and by direct mitochondrial effects which could be mediated by the PBR.
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- hela cells
- low-affinity mpbr
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- co pk11195
- starvation- induced cell
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