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imatinib reverses intrinsic doxorubicin resistance by blocking STAT3 phosphorylation, which inhibits a HSP27/p38/Akt survival pathway and Lonafarnib SCH66336 promotes activation of an NF kB mediated pro apoptotic pathway. Here, we show that imatinib prevents intrinsic and acquired resistance to doxorubicin by: 1) inhibiting c Abl/Arg activation, 2) promoting doxorubicin mediated cell cycle arrest at G2/M, 3) inhibiting activation of a STAT3 dependent HSP27/p38/Akt emergency route, 4) promoting NF kB mediated inhibition of anti-apoptotic protein expression in a STAT3 dependent manner, and 5) inhibiting up-regulation of the drug transporter, ABCB1, and directly inhibiting ABCB1 function. These data are important and new since the mechanisms that govern NF kB mediated transcriptional repression have not previously been identified. Moreover, this will be the first demonstration that HSP27/p38/Akt increase doxorubicin resistance in melanoma cells, and we are the first showing that STAT3 Chromoblastomycosis is associated with activation of this pathway. The role of NF kB in doxorubicin induced cell death is questionable as doxorubicin mediated activation of NF kB prevents cell death in certain cell types, whilst in other cells, doxorubicin mediated activation of NF kB encourages apoptosis by repressing expression of anti apoptotic genes. Additionally, the mechanism through which NF kB is converted by anthracyclines in to a repressor is under debate. Barker and colleagues showed that doxorubicin induces p65 nuclear localization and DNA binding of the non acetylated/non phosphorylated form of p65, which prevents NF kB transcriptional activity in a histone deacetylase independent fashion. In comparison, Perkins and colleagues demonstrated that anthracyclines induce phosphorylation/acetylation and nuclear translocation Ubiquitin ligase inhibitor of p65 in mouse embryo fibroblasts, and p65 represses gene expression by recruiting HDACs to gene targets. Additionally, Yu and colleagues showed that p65 acetylation is required for its nuclear retention, which is inconsistent with data from Barker and colleagues who show that non phosphorylated/non acetylated p65 binds DNA, and thus, is in the nucleus. Here, we demonstrate that doxorubicin induces p65 phosphorylation and nuclear translocation, which will be improved by imatinib treatment or silencing STAT3, and correlates with decreased NF kB transcriptional activity and downregulation of NF kB targets. Thus, STAT3 service checks doxorubicin mediated p65 nuclear localization, which will be unlike data obtained in untreated cancer cells indicating that STAT3 encourages p65 nuclear retention. Thus, our data show that STAT3 probably has an opposite role in regulating p65 nuclear localization in response to stimuli that convert NF kB in to a repressor. Our data are consistent with Perkins and colleagues who show that doxorubicin raises NF kB phosphorylation/ acetylation/DNA binding but this activated NF kB represses in the place of stimulates transcription.