Doxycycline at Low Concentrations Could Influence Your Experimental Results When Working With Prostate Cancer Cell Lines

Doxycycline is a tetracycline derivate commonly used in various inducible expression systems to study the function of different proteins. In this study, we show that 22Rv1 and PC3, two different, commonly used prostate cancer cell lines are very sensitive to this antibiotic and addition of the drug at inductive concentrations can affect cells in ways that can be misinterpreted as effects from the protein studied. Therefore, proper controls are very important in order to avoid conclusions drawn by artifacts caused by experimental conditions