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Toxicological Sciences, Vol 47, 176-180, Copyright © 1999 by Society of Toxicology

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Sodium arsenite enhances copper accumulation in human lung adenocarcinoma cells

IC Ho and TC Lee
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

In this report, we found that arsenite-resistant human lung adenocarcinoma cells, CL3R15, were more susceptible to CuCl2 than the parental CL3 cells. With the aid of atomic absorption spectrophotometry, we observed that CL3R15 cells accumulated more copper than CL3 cells. We further demonstrated that sodium arsenite treatment resulted in a dose-dependent increase of copper accumulation in the parental CL3 cells. In contrast, copper did not alter the levels of intracellular arsenite in CL3 cells treated in combination with sodium arsenite and CuCl2. Pretreatment of CL3 cells with sodium arsenite resulted in a significant increase of copper accumulation and cytotoxicity. These results indicate that intracellular copper accumulation is enhanced by arsenite. However, arsenite-enhanced copper accumulation was not observed in two fibroblastic cells, GM00220 and GM03700, derived from Menkes patients. The Menkes gene encodes a membrane pump responsible for copper exportation. Our results suggest that Menkes protein is a potential target of arsenite.
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