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Jing Chen, Nathan R. Wall, Kerry Kocher, Nicole Duclos, Doriano Fabbro, Donna Neuberg, James D. Griffin, Yang Shi, D. Gary Gilliland
Published in Volume 113, Issue 12
J Clin Invest. 2004; 113(12):1784–1791 doi:10.1172/JCI20673
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Stable siRNA expression sensitizes TEL-PDGFβR for small molecule inhibitors and overcomes drug resistance. (A) TPsiRNA expression sensitizes TEL-PDGFβR_transformed Ba/F3 cells to inhibition by imatinib in a cell viability assay. The percentage of cell growth was normalized to the growth of cells in the absence of drug treatment. (B) TPsiRNA sensitizes TEL-PDGFβR to inhibition by imatinib in auto-tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of TEL-PDGFβR downstream signaling components. Western blot analysis was performed as described in Figure 2. (C) TPsiRNA sensitizes TEL-PDGFβR_transformed Ba/F3 cells to the effects of mTOR inhibitor rapamycin in the cell viability assay. (D) Activation of mTOR assessed by phosphorylation of the mTOR target p70 S6 kinase. Ba/F3 cells transduced with empty retroviral vector were included as a control. (E) Schematic representation of NPM-ALK fusion tyrosine kinase. The fusion junction that the siRNA was designed to target is indicated in the upper panel. The lower panel shows the predicted short hairpin transcript with a 3′_U5 pol III stop signal. (F) NPM-ALK_specific siRNA (NAsiRNA) sensitizes Ba/F3 cells transformed with NPM-ALK (N/A) to rapamycin in the cell viability assay. (G) Decreased expression of NPM-ALK and phosphorylation of p70 S6 kinase by stable expression of NAsiRNA. Ba/F3 cells transduced with empty retroviral vector were included as a control.