Biological sample pretreatment is an important step in biological sample analysis. Due to the diversity of biological matrices, the analysis of target substances in these samples presents significant challenges to sample processing. To meet these emerging demands on biopharmaceutical analysis, this paper summarizes several new techniques of on-line biological sample processing: solid phase extraction, solid phase micro-extraction, column switching, limited intake filler, molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction, tubular column, and micro-dialysis. We describe new developments, principles, and characteristics of these techniques, and the application of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) in biopharmaceutical analysis with these new techniques in on-line biological sample processing.
Abstract. Sorcin, a calcium-binding protein was found upregulated in the vincristine-induced multi-drug resistance (MDR) gastric cancer cell line SGC7901/VCR, over its parental SGC7901 cells in our previous proteomic studies. The present study explored the role and mechanism of sorcin in the development of MDR in gastric cancer. We constructed the recombinant plasmids FLAG-sorsin-pcDNA3.1 containing the full open reading frame of sorcin and a FLAG affinity tag. Overexpression of sorcin by gene transfection was able to confer drug resistance to vincristine, adriamycin, taxol and 5-fluorouracil in SGC7901 cells.Down-regulation of sorcin expression by sorcin antisense oligonucleutides, (ASO) increased sensitivity to vincristine. The intracellular concentration of vincristine in SGC7901 cells decreased in sorcintransfected cells and increased in sorcin ASO-transfected cells, indicating that sorcin had a direct or indirect function on pumping the drug out of cells. Overexpression of sorcin up-regulated the expression of P-gp and P-gp inhibitor verapamil partially reversed the sorcin-mediated MDR in SGC7901 cell, suggesting that regulation of P-gp might be one of the mechanisms of sorcin-mediated MDR. The further study of the interaction protein of sorcin may be helpful for understanding the mechanisms of MDR in gastric cancer and developing possible strategies to treat gastric cancer.
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