The human ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein, Pgp) protein is an active exporter expressed in the plasma membrane of cells forming biological barriers. In accordance with its broad substrate spectrum and tissue expression pattern, it affects the pharmacokinetics...
ABCB1, also known as MDR1, is a gene that encodes P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a membrane-associated ATP-dependent transporter. P-gp is widely expressed in many healthy tissues—in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidney, and at the blood–brai...
The ABCB subfamily, a subset transporter of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily, is vital for various plant life processes, especially in the transport of polar auxin and brassinosteroids. Although ABCB transporters have been characterized in...
ABCB4 is almost exclusively expressed in the liver, where it plays an essential role in bile formation by transporting phospholipids into the bile. ABCB4 polymorphisms and deficiencies in humans are associated with a wide spectrum of hepatobiliary di...
ABCB1 is one of the major drug efflux transporters that is known to cause multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Inhibition of ABCB1 efflux function is im...
ABCB1 is a member of the ATP binding cassette transporter family and high ABCB1 activity is considered as a poor prognostic factor in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treated with intensive chemotherapy, its direct relation with drug resistance remains u...
Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) induce the expression of multidrug resistance (MDR) pumps and can even display the MDR phenotype in cell lines. This is the first report to include the profiles of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in int...
Objectives: ABCB1-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR) compromises chemotherapy efficacy in colorectal cancer (CRC). Despite decades of research, no selective ABCB1 inhibitor has achieved clinical success. This study investigates ML210 as a novel ABCB...
The aim of our study was to investigate the role of ABCB1 polymorphism in the pharmacokinetics of carbamazepine (CBZ) in children. The study enrolled 47 Serbian pediatric epileptic patients on CBZ treatment. Genotyping for ABCB1 1236C<T (rs1128503...
The expression of drug efflux pump ABCB1/P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a transmembrane protein belonging to the ATP-binding cassette superfamily, is a leading cause of multidrug resistance (MDR). We previously curated a dataset of structurally diverse and s...
Xanthohumol (XN) is a well-known prenylated flavonoid found in Humulus lupulus L. It is involved in several pharmacological activities, including the sensitization of doxorubicin-resistant breast cancer (MCF-7/ADR) cells to doxorubicin (DOX) through...
The overexpressing ABCB1 transporter is one of the key factors leading to multidrug resistance (MDR). Thus, many ABCB1 inhibitors have been found to be able to overcome ABCB1-mediated MDR. However, some inhibitors also work as a substrate of ABCB1, w...
Tree peony (Paeonia ostii T. Hong et J. X. Zhang) is an important medicinal and ornamental plant. It would be useful to propagate this plant in tissue culture, but it is difficult to induce root formation. Auxin plays a pivotal role in adventitious r...
Background: Multidrug resistance (MDR) remains a major obstacle in cancer chemotherapy, and overexpression of ABCB1 plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of MDR. Despite decades of research, significant clinical progress in the development of ABC...
2-Ethyl-6-methyl-3-hydroxypyridine succinate (EMHPS, Mexidol) is an original antioxidant and an anti-ischemic drug with the possibility of wide applications in the complex therapy of diseases, accompanied by the development of oxidative stress and is...
Uveal melanoma represents the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults; it may arise in any part of the uveal tract, with choroid and ciliary bodies being the most frequent sites of disease. In the present paper we studied ABCB5 expressio...
The ATP Binding Cassette transporter B1 (ABCB1) induces chemoresistance in osteosarcoma, because it effluxes doxorubicin, reducing the intracellular accumulation, toxicity, and immunogenic cell death induced by the drug. The ATP Binding Cassette tran...
Corneal transparency and avascularity are essential for vision. The avascular cornea transitions into the vascularized conjunctiva at the limbus. Here, we explore a limbal stromal cell sub-population that expresses ABCB5 and has mesenchymal stem cell...
ABCB1 belongs to a superfamily of membrane transporters that use ATP hydrolysis to efflux various endogenous compounds and drugs outside the cell. Cancer cells upregulate ABCB1 expression as an adaptive response to evade chemotherapy-mediated cell de...
Isobavachalcone (IBC) is an active substance from the medicinal plant Psoralea corylifolia. This prenylated chalcone was reported to possess antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anticancer activities. Multidrug resistance (MDR) associ...
(1) Background: The approach of bleeding complications in patients treated with non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) represents an important issue in clinical practice. Both dabigatran and apixaban are substrates for P-glycoprotein and, therefor...
The overexpression of ABC transporters induced by anticancer drugs has been found to be the main cause of multidrug resistance. It is actually also a strategy by which cancer cells escape being killed. Tetrandrine is a natural product extracted from...
The overexpression of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1; P-glycoprotein; MDR1) in some types of cancer cells is one of the mechanisms responsible for the development of multidrug resistance (MDR), which l...
In recent years, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been shown capable of inhibiting the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR). In this study, we determine whether osimertinib, a novel selective, irreversible...
Isoxanthohumol is a unique prenylflavonoid with the highest content in beer. Isoxanthohumol has multiple bioactivities and has recently received considerable attention in the scientific community. Nonetheless; its effect on drug resistant cancer cell...
Psoriasis is a chronic, T cell-mediated skin disease affecting 2–3% of the Caucasian population. Cyclosporine A is a calcineurin inhibitor that acts selectively on T cells. The cyclosporine A treatment response has been suggested to be modulate...
Docetaxel (DTX) is a mainstay in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer. Failure of DTX therapy is often associated with multidrug resistance caused by overexpression of efflux membrane transporters of the ABC family such as the glycoprotein ABC...
Multidrug resistance (MDR) caused by ATP-Binding Cassette Subfamily B Member 1 (ABCB1, P-glycoprotein, P-gp) is a major barrier for the success of chemotherapy in clinics. In this study, we designed and synthesized a total of 19 Lissodendrins B analo...
Genetic polymorphisms in ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1, also known as MDR1) have been reported to be possibly associated with the regulation of response to antiseizure medications. The aim of this study was to investigate the assoc...
ABCB5β is a member of the ABC transporter superfamily cloned from melanocytes. It has been reported as a marker of skin progenitor cells and melanoma stem cells. ABCB5β has also been shown to exert an oncogenic activity and promote cancer m...
Background: Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a significant economic oilseed crop, and saline-alkali soils restrict soybean yield. Identifying salt-tolerant genes is a key strategy for enhancing soybean productivity under saline-alkali conditions....
Echinochloa crus-galli var. zelayensis is a variant of E. crus-galli (L) Beauv, and it is the most pernicious weed in the east of China. Quinclorac, as synthetic auxin herbicide, could control this kind of weed effectively. In this study, two populat...
ATP-binding cassette transporter B1 (ABCB1, or P-glycoprotein) is known to be an important participant in multidrug resistance in mammals, and it also has been proved as a transporter for some insecticides in several lepidopteran insects, yet the pre...
(1) Background: The aim of our study was to analyze the possible relationship of ABCB1 and CYP1A1 gene variants with susceptibility and outcome of multiple myeloma (MM); (2) Methods: Genomic DNA samples from 110 newly-diagnosed MM patients and 100 he...
The limbus, the vascularized junction between the cornea and conjunctiva, is thought to function as a barrier against corneal neovascularization. However, the exact mechanisms regulating this remain unknown. In this study, the limbal epithelial stem...
Background/Objectives: The prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia has significantly improved with the incorporation of innovative therapies such as immunotherapy, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and CAR-T cell-based treatments. Drug resistance, mediat...
Citarinostat (ACY-241) is a promising oral histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6)-selective inhibitor currently in clinical trials for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the inevitable emergence of resistan...
The multidrug transporter ABCB1 (MDR1, Pgp) plays an important role in the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of a wide range of pharmaceutical compounds. Functional investigation of the ABCB1 expression is also essential in many d...
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Despite advances in cancer treatment, breast cancer (BC) remains one of the most common cancers affecting women worldwide. This study aimed to determine serum circFBXW7, circABCB10, and circ0103552 levels and compare BC patients and healthy controls...
Background: ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein) and ABCG2 (breast cancer resistance protein) are co-localized at the blood-brain barrier (BBB), where they restrict the brain distribution of many different drugs. Moreover, ABCB1 and possibly ABCG2 play a role in A...
This study examined how the 1199G > A polymorphism in the ABCB1 gene encoding P-glycoprotein (P-gp) affects the protein’s expression, ATPase activity, and ability to pump female steroid sex hormones out of LLC-PK1 cells. The ABCB1 (1199G) or ABCB1...
The P-glycoprotein (P-gp/ABCB1) is responsible for a xenobiotic efflux pump that shackles intracellular drug accumulation. Additionally, it is included in the dud of considerable antiviral and anticancer chemotherapies because of the multidrug resist...
Constitutive activation of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway is crucial for tumor growth and progression. As such, this pathway has been an enticing target for drug discovery. Although HS-173 is a potent PI3K inhibitor that h...
Background/Objectives: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a pregnancy-specific liver disorder with a multifactorial pathogenesis and a well-established genetic component. While pathogenic variants in genes such as ABCB4 and ABCB11 are imp...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory genetic disorder characterized by recurrent fevers and inflammation of the serous membranes in the abdomen, lungs, and joints. Currently, the standard treatment of FMF includes colchicine, whi...
The ATP-binding cassette subfamily B (ABCB) is an important transporter family, and many members are well known for their auxin transport function. However, reports on the function of the ABCB genes during Moso bamboo development are few. In this stu...
Tacrolimus (Tc) is an immunosuppressant used in transplant patients, but its therapeutic range is narrow, making precise dosing essential. This study investigates the association of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (ABCB1 3435C>T, 1236...
The ATP-binding cassette superfamily member ABCB5 identifies a subset of skin-resident mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that exhibit potent immunomodulatory and wound healing-promoting capacities along with superior homing ability. The ABCB5+ MSCs can b...
In tumors, the multi drug resistance phenomenon may occur through the efflux of chemotherapeutic drugs out of cancer cells, impeding their accumulation, and eventually reducing their toxicity. This process is mediated by transporters overexpressed in...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Currently, chemotherapy is a first-line treatment for CRC. However, one major drawback of chemotherapy is the emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR). It has been well-...
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