@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00047646,
 author = {李, 惠子 and 松本, 孔貴 and 古澤, 佳也 and 鎌田, 正 and 李 惠子 and 松本 孔貴 and 古澤 佳也 and 鎌田 正},
 issue = {5},
 journal = {Journal of Radiation Research},
 month = {May},
 note = {PU-H71, a Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitor, has yielded therapeutic efficacy in many preclinical models and is currently in clinical trials. Carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) has provided successful tumor control; however, there is still a room for improvement, particularly in terms of tumor-specific radiosensitization. The Hsp90 inhibitor PU-H71 has been shown to sensitize tumor cells to X-ray radiation. 
A murine osteosarcoma cell line (LM8) and a normal human fibroblast cell line (AG01522) were treated with PU-H71 before X-ray, 14 or 50 keV/µm carbon-ion beam (C-ion) irradiation. Cell survival and protein expression were evaluated with colony formation and western blot, respectively. 
Treatment with PU-H71 alone was shown to be nontoxic to both cell lines; however, PU-H71 was shown to significantly sensitize LM8 cells to not only X-ray but also to C-ion irradiation, while only a minimal sensitizing effect was observed in AG01522 cells. PU-H71 treatment was found to suppress the protein expression levels of Rad51 and Ku70, which are associated with the homologous recombination pathway and the non-homologous end-joining pathway of double-strand break repair. 
The findings reported here suggest that PU-H71 could be a promising radiosensitizer for CIRT.},
 pages = {572--575},
 title = {PU-H71, a novel Hsp90 inhibitor, as a potential cancer-specific sensitizer to carbon-ion beam therapy},
 volume = {57},
 year = {2016}
}