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ABCG2/BCRP Expression Modulates D-Luciferin–Based Bioluminescence Imaging

¹ Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, ² Department of Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ³ The Kennedy Krieger Institute, ⁴ Department of Neurology, and ⁵ Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is becoming indispensable to the study of transgene expression during development and, in many in vivo models of disease such as cancer, for high throughput drug screening in vitro. Because reaction of D-luciferin with firefly luciferase (fLuc) produces photons of sufficiently long wavelength to permit imaging in intact animals, use of this substrate and enzyme pair has become the method of choice for performing BLI in vivo. We now show that expression of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family transporter ABCG2/BCRP affects BLI signal output from the substrate D-luciferin. In vitro studies show that D-luciferin is a substrate for ABCG2/BCRP but not for the MDR1 P-glycoprotein (ABCB1/Pgp), multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1/ABCC1), or multidrug resistance protein 2 (MRP2/ABCC2). D-Luciferin uptake within cells is shown to be modulated by ABC transporter inhibitors, including the potent and selective ABCG2/BCRP inhibitor fumitremorgin C. Images of xenografts engineered to express transgenic ABCG2/BCRP, as well as xenografts derived from the human prostate cancer cell line 22Rv1 that naturally express ABCG2/BCRP, show that ABCG2/BCRP expression and function within regions of interest substantially influence D-luciferin–dependent bioluminescent output in vivo. These findings highlight the need to consider ABCG2/BCRP effects during D-luciferin–based BLI and suggest novel high throughput methods for identifying new ABCG2/BCRP inhibitors. [Cancer Res 2007;67(19):9389–97]

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