Development of the sulfur mustard resistant keratinocyte cell line HaCaT/SM

Schmidt, Annette; Steinritz, Dirk and Thiermann, Horst (2016): Development of the sulfur mustard resistant keratinocyte cell line HaCaT/SM. In: Toxicology Letters, Vol. 244: pp. 44-48

Abstract

Pairs of corresponding cytotoxic drug sensitive and resistant cell lines are powerful tools to develop treatment strategies. Developing cytotoxic drug resistant cell lines is a well-established method in cancer research. In more than fifty years of sulfur mustard (SM) resistant research such a cell pair has never been produced. Hereinafter we describe the first successful approach to develop a SM resistant keratinocyte cell line. Starting with the SM sensitive keratinocyte cell line HaCaT we used a strategy of continuous exposure with gradually increased concentrations. Cells were cultured in total for more than 40 months starting with an initial concentration of 0.07 mu M SM twice a week up to a final concentration of 7.2 mu M SM. The achieved cell line HaCaT/SM had an LC50 resistance increase of 4.7-fold and an LC90 increase of 8.2-fold. Hereinafter we demonstrate the production of the first sulfur mustard (SM) resistant cell line. The new achieved cell line called HaCaT/SM is able to tolerate a continuous exposure of an SM concentration, which is associated with an inhibitory effect of 93% within the original HaCaTcells, which were used as starting point. (C) 2015 ELSEVIER. All rights reserved.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Medicine
• Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medicine and health
• ISSN: 0378-4274
• Language: English