Combination of Tissue Microarray Profiling and Multiplexed IHC Approaches to Investigate Transport Mechanism of Nucleoside Analog Drug Resistance

Debasis Nayak, Brenna Weadick, Rajgopal Govindarajan

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Abstract

Nucleoside analogs (NAs) are an established class of anticancer agents being used clinically for the treatment of diverse cancers, either as monotherapy or in combination with other established anticancer or pharmacological agents. To date, nearly a dozen anticancer NAs are approved by the FDA, and several novel NAs are being tested in preclinical and clinical trials for future applications. However, improper delivery of NAs into tumor cells because of alterations in expression of one or more drug carrier proteins (e.g., solute carrier (SLC) transporters) within tumor cells or cells surrounding the tumor microenvironment stands as one of the primary reasons for therapeutic drug resistance. The combination of tissue microarray (TMA) and multiplexed immunohistochemistry (IHC) is an advanced, high-throughput approach over conventional IHC that enables researchers to effectively investigate alterations to numerous such chemosensitivity determinants simultaneously in hundreds of tumor tissues derived from patients. In this chapter, taking an example of a TMA from pancreatic cancer patients treated with gemcitabine (a NA chemotherapeutic agent), we describe the step-by-step procedure of performing multiplexed IHC, imaging of TMA slides, and quantification of expression of some relevant markers in these tissue sections as optimized in our laboratory and discuss considerations while designing and carrying out this experiment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
PublisherHumana Press Inc.
Pages95-121
Number of pages27
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume2660
ISSN (Print)1064-3745
ISSN (Electronic)1940-6029

Keywords

  • Equilibrative nucleoside transporter (ENT), Concentrative nucleoside transporters (CNT)
  • Heat-induced antigen retrieval (HIER)
  • Immunohistochemistry, Multiplexing, Solute carrier (SLC) transporters
  • Nucleoside analogs
  • Nucleoside transporter (NT)
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Tissue microarray

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