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2.1.6. Aim of the Study<br />

Investigat<strong>in</strong>g prote<strong>in</strong> <strong>profiles</strong> and understand<strong>in</strong>g the dynamic alterations of<br />

cellular prote<strong>in</strong>s are of great importance for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes <strong>in</strong><br />

cl<strong>in</strong>ical sett<strong>in</strong>gs. This is because most diseases, cancers <strong>in</strong> particular, are reflected as<br />

driven by prote<strong>in</strong> alterations <strong>in</strong> cells. As such, proteomic methods enhance our<br />

understand<strong>in</strong>g of the characteristics of various cancers via, mak<strong>in</strong>g it possible to<br />

discrim<strong>in</strong>ate healthy and malignant cells more accurately, development of novel<br />

therapeutics that target altered prote<strong>in</strong> signal<strong>in</strong>g pathways, and assessment of what<br />

<strong>changes</strong> occur at the prote<strong>in</strong> level <strong>in</strong> cells <strong>in</strong> response to treatment with drugs, lead<strong>in</strong>g to<br />

the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy.<br />

In the light of this valuable knowledge, the objective of this project was ma<strong>in</strong>ly<br />

to both determ<strong>in</strong>e the cytotoxic and apoptotic effects of Bortezomib on Multiple<br />

Myeloma U-266 cells and f<strong>in</strong>d out the <strong>changes</strong> <strong>in</strong> prote<strong>in</strong> <strong>profiles</strong> of MM U-266 cells<br />

when they exposed to Bortezomib, by proteomics studies.<br />

The cytotoxic effects were determ<strong>in</strong>ed by measur<strong>in</strong>g the IC-50 value us<strong>in</strong>g XTT<br />

cell proliferation assay and apoptotic effects were assessed measur<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>changes</strong> <strong>in</strong><br />

caspase-3 enzyme activity and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). After<br />

assign<strong>in</strong>g the MM U-266 cells as a control while, Bortezomib <strong>applied</strong> MM U-266 cells<br />

as a Bortezomib, prote<strong>in</strong> isolation was carried out from these two compartments<br />

separately. Follow<strong>in</strong>g to the extraction of total prote<strong>in</strong> content, a comparison of prote<strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>profiles</strong> <strong>in</strong> these two different states was carried out us<strong>in</strong>g two-dimensional<br />

polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE). Differentially expressed prote<strong>in</strong> spots<br />

(<strong>in</strong>creased and/or decreased or appear and/or disappear) were <strong>in</strong>-gel digested and<br />

identified by MALDI-TOF-TOF Mass Spectrometry, and database searches were<br />

performed (Mascot search eng<strong>in</strong>e and NCBInr prote<strong>in</strong> database) <strong>in</strong> order to discover the<br />

differences <strong>in</strong> details between Bortezomib <strong>applied</strong> and control group MM U-266 cells at<br />

the level of prote<strong>in</strong>s. The functions of Bortezomib related prote<strong>in</strong>s were also discussed.<br />

Proteomic study provides an excellent opportunity to f<strong>in</strong>d the differentiated<br />

prote<strong>in</strong>s depend<strong>in</strong>g on Bortezomib effect. For future perspectives, these differentiated<br />

prote<strong>in</strong>s can let to be possible to treat other cancer types by same anti-cancer agent.<br />

Additionally, the data obta<strong>in</strong>ed by this study can be helpful for medical schools and<br />

drug designers and may also provide new treatments.<br />

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