申请人:BML, Inc.
公开号:EP1715041A1
公开(公告)日:2006-10-25
It is an object of the present invention to find out a novel gene marker by which a drug-resistant cancer cell can be detected and provide a means of efficiently and comprehensively detecting a drug-resistant cancer cell using this marker. In the present invention, gene amplifications or deletions have been analyzed in cancer cell strains resistant to drugs, which are anticancer drugs having particularly serious side effects and being administered to cancer patients at a high frequency (namely, camptothecins, cisplatins, etoposides, adriamycins (ADM), and cytosine arabinosides), and parent cancer cell strains. As a result, it was found out that the acquisition of drug-resistance to an anticancer drug in a test cancer cell can be detected by detecting amplification of one or more genes selected from ABC transporter genes and BCL2 family genes consisting of ABCA3 gene, ABCB6 gene, ABCB8 gene, ABCB10 gene, ABCC4 gene, ABCC9 gene, ABCD3 gene, ABCD4 gene, ABCE1 gene, ABCF2 gene, BCL2L2, BCL2L10, BCL2L1, and BCL2A1 which are novel gene markers relating to the acquisition of drug resistance of cancer cells.
本发明的目的是找出一种新的基因标记,通过这种标记可以检测出耐药癌细胞,并提供一种利用这种标记有效而全面地检测耐药癌细胞的方法。本发明分析了耐药癌细胞株和母本癌细胞株的基因扩增或缺失情况,耐药癌细胞株是指副作用特别严重、癌症病人经常服用的抗癌药物(即喜树碱类、顺铂类、依托泊苷类、阿霉素类(ADM)和胞嘧啶阿拉伯糖苷类)。ABCB6 基因、ABCB8 基因、ABCB10 基因、ABCC4 基因、ABCC9 基因、ABCD3 基因、ABCD4 基因、ABCE1 基因、ABCF2 基因、BCL2L2 基因、BCL2L10 基因、BCL2L1 基因和 BCL2A1 基因,这些基因是与癌细胞获得抗药性有关的新型基因标记。