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. 2022 Feb 11;11(4):632. doi: 10.3390/cells11040632

Table 1.

ATP-binding cassette ABC efflux pumps involved in enhanced drug efflux and reduced drug uptake stratified according to their TMD folds.

TMD Fold Subfamily Gene Function Upregulation in Cancer
Type IV ABCB ABCB1
(P-gp)
Drug efflux and regulator of lipids and
steroids homeostasis in
central and peripheral nervous system
Adrenocortical, breast, colorectal, leukemic, ovarian, and renal cancers
ABCB5 GSH mediator Leukemic, lung, melanoma, ovarian, renal, and thyroidal cancers
ABCB8 Iron metabolism and homeostasis,
OS protection
Head and neck,
pancreatic, and
renal cancers
ABCC ABCC1 (MRP1) Organic anion transporter and GSH mediator Breast, endometrium, glioma, head and neck, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, ovarian, prostate, neuroblastoma, and thyroid cancers
ABCC2 Organic anion transporter Colorectal, gastric, hepatic, and lung cancers
ABCC3 Organic anion transporter Breast, cervical, colorectal, gastric, hepatic, lung, ovarian pancreatic, renal, and thyroid cancers
ABCC4 Nucleoside transporter Breast, endometrial, gastric, head and neck,
hepatic, lung, neuroblastoma, ovarian, prostate, andrenal cancers
ABCC5 Nucleoside transporter Breast, cervical, glioma hepatic, lung, pancreatic, renal, and urothelial cancers
ABCC6 Putative biomineralization
modulator
Liver cancer
ABCC10 E(2)17βG transporter Breast, colorectal, liver, lung, and prostate cancers
ABCC11 Bile salts transporter Breast cancer
ABCC12 Unknown Breast, colorectal, liver, lung, and prostate cancers
Type V ABCG ABCG2 Toxin efflux, cell differentiation Cervical, glioma, liver, ovarian, prostate, pulmonary, renal, and testicular cancers
ABCA ABCA2 Lipid transporter Breast, colon, leukemia, and liver cancers
ABCA8 Lipophilic drugs transporter Ovarian cancer
- ABCF ABCF2 Inflammatory development Breast cancer