Analysis of the membrane proteome of ciprofloxacin-resistant macrophages by stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC)

PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e58285. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058285. Epub 2013 Mar 7.

Abstract

Overexpression of multidrug transporters is a well-established mechanism of resistance to chemotherapy, but other changes may be co-selected upon exposure to drugs that contribute to resistance. Using a model of J774 macrophages made resistant to the fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin and comparing it with the wild-type parent cell line, we performed a quantitative proteomic analysis using the stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture technology coupled with liquid chromatography electrospray ionization Fourier transform tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-FT-MS/MS) on 2 samples enriched in membrane proteins (fractions F1 and F2 collected from discontinuous sucrose gradient). Nine hundred proteins were identified with at least 3 unique peptides in these 2 pooled fractions among which 61 (F1) and 69 (F2) showed a significantly modified abundance among the 2 cell lines. The multidrug resistance associated protein Abcc4, known as the ciprofloxacin efflux transporter in these cells, was the most upregulated, together with Dnajc3, a protein encoded by a gene located downstream of Abcc4. The other modulated proteins are involved in transport functions, cell adhesion and cytoskeleton organization, immune response, signal transduction, and metabolism. This indicates that the antibiotic ciprofloxacin is able to trigger a pleiotropic adaptative response in macrophages that includes the overexpression of its efflux transporter.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Adhesion
  • Cell Culture Techniques
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Movement
  • Ciprofloxacin / pharmacology
  • Drug Resistance / genetics
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress
  • Isotope Labeling
  • Lipid Metabolism
  • Macrophages / drug effects
  • Macrophages / metabolism*
  • Membrane Proteins / metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins / genetics
  • Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins / metabolism
  • Protein Transport
  • Proteome*
  • Proteomics
  • Signal Transduction
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

  • Membrane Proteins
  • Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins
  • Proteome
  • Ciprofloxacin

Grants and funding

NEC and BM were respectively post-doctoral fellows of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S-FNRS) and of the Région Wallonne (programme FIRST post-doc). FVB is Maître de recherches of the F.R.S.-FNRS. This work was supported by the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Poles (Interuniversitaire Attractiepolen/Pôles d’attraction interuniversitaires) Research project P6/19 [research action P6]), IWT-Flanders (SBO project B/06921/01), the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Médicale (FRSM; grants no. 3.4.597.06 and 3.4.583.08) and a grant from the French Association Mucoviscidose: ABCF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.