A549 Sagopilone

Anticancer drug sagopilone in lung cancer line A549. We performed gene expression analysis of lung cancer cell line A549 treated with sagopilone and paclitaxel. The aim was to analyse gene expression differences between the two drugs in two different concentrations. A549 cells were treated with medium containing either 2.5 nM sagopilone, 40 nM sagopilone, 4 nM paclitaxel or 40 nM paclitaxel, respectively, vehicle (ethanol 0.1%), or were left untreated for 18 hours. The two different concentrations were chosen according the phenotypes they have caused in A549 cells. Treatment with 2.5 nM sagopilone, 4 nM paclitaxel induced an aneuploid cell population, whereas treatment with 40 nM sagopilone and 40 nM paclitaxel induced mitotic arrest.