Deleted in cancer 1: Search for a function in prostate cancer

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16095-e16095
Author(s):  
J. Hirsch ◽  
T. Nelius ◽  
C. Pfarr ◽  
W. De Riese ◽  
I. Wieland ◽  
...  

e16095 Background: Deleted In Cancer 1 (DICE1/INTS6) gene was recently identified to colocalize with the microsatellite marker D13S284 in 13q14.3, a region frequently affected by allelic deletion in many solid tumors including prostate cancer (PrCa). DICE1 missense mutations have been previously detected in PrCa cell line LNCap, and reduced DICE1 expression appears to be associated with CpG promoter hypermethylation in PrCa cells. DICE1 is a highly conserved nuclear protein suggesting its involvement in DNA repair, transcription, or RNA splicing. In mouse, the DICE1 homologue interferes with the response to insulin-like growth factor 1 and suppresses anchorage-independent growth of transformed mouse cells. The totality of these results suggests that DICE1 is a tumor suppressor gene and insist on the need to better characterize DICE1 function in PrCa. Methods: Expression of DICE1 was evaluated by Northern Blot in PrCa cell lines LNCap, DU145, PC3, PC3ml and CPTX1532 and compared to expression level in normal prostate cell line NPTX1532. DICE1 growth inhibitory effects were analyzed by colony formation assay on PC3 and DU145 cells transfected with DICE1 expression plasmid or control vector. Apoptosis was assessed by visualization of genomic DNA fragmentation on agarose gel. PCR arrays (SABiosciences) were used to identify specific signaling pathways modulated in response to DICE1 expression. Results: Markedly decreased DICE1 mRNA levels were detected in PrCa cell lines LNCap, DU145, PC3 and PC3ml as well as CPTX1532 as compared to NPTX1532, a cell line derived from normal prostate tissue. Ectopic expression of DICE1 cDNA in DU145 and PC3 cells substantially suppressed their ability to form colonies in vitro. This growth inhibition was not due to immediate induction of apoptosis suggesting growth suppression by other pathways. Expression profiling identified multiple pathways, such as Wnt, Hedgehog, PI-3 Kinase, NFκB and Insulin pathways, regulated in response to ectopic DICE1 expression. Furthermore, various transcription factors including Fos, Jun, CEBPA and PPAR-γ were up-regulated in response to DICE1. Conclusions: These results clearly illustrate the growth inhibitory ability of DICE1 in PrCa. Expression profiling links DICE1 function to growth factor signaling and cell-cell communication. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Salemi ◽  
Filippo Fraggetta ◽  
Antonio Galia ◽  
Pietro Pepe ◽  
Laura Cimino ◽  
...  

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequent cancer among men in many developing countries, and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men. A genetic component has been implicated in PCa onset and development. The cerebellar degeneration-related autoantigen 1 ( CDR1) gene, mapping in Xq26-q27.2, is expressed in cerebrum, cerebellum, heart, lung, liver, and kidney. In addition, CDR1 expression has been detected in neuroblastoma, renal carcinoma cell lines, and other cancer cell lines. In this study, we investigated the expression of the CDR1 gene in the LNCaP and PC-3 PCa cell lines, and in the PNT1A normal prostate cell line. CDR1 mRNA expression was evaluated by qRT-PCR. We found that the CDR1 gene was overexpressed in the LNCaP and PC-3 PCa cell lines as compared with the PNT1A normal prostate cell line. These data suggest that CDR1 could be a new biomarker for PCa identification.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila E. Kobayashi ◽  
Patrícia F. Lainetti ◽  
Antonio F. Leis-Filho ◽  
Flávia K. Delella ◽  
Marcio Carvalho ◽  
...  

Canine prostate cancer (PC) presents a poor antitumor response, usually late diagnosis and prognosis. Toceranib phosphate (TP) is a nonspecific inhibitor of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), including vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR), platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), and c-KIT. This study aimed to evaluate VEGFR2, PDGFR-β, and c-KIT protein expression in two established canine PC cell lines (PC1 and PC2) and the transcriptome profile of the cells after treatment with TP. Immunofluorescence (IF) analysis revealed VEGFR2 and PDGFR-β protein expression and the absence of c-KIT protein expression in both cell lines. After TP treatment, only the viability of PC1 cells decreased in a dose-dependent manner. Transcriptome and enrichment analyses of treated PC1 cells revealed 181 upregulated genes, which were related to decreased angiogenesis and cell proliferation. In addition, we found upregulated PDGFR-A, PDGFR-β, and PDGF-D expression in PC1 cells, and the upregulation of PDGFR-β was also observed in treated PC1 cells by qPCR. PC2 cells had fewer protein-protein interactions (PPIs), with 18 upregulated and 22 downregulated genes; the upregulated genes were involved in the regulation of parallel pathways and mechanisms related to proliferation, which could be associated with the resistance observed after treatment. The canine PC1 cell line but not the PC2 cell line showed decreased viability after treatment with TP, although both cell lines expressed PDGFR and VEGFR receptors. Further studies could explain the mechanism of resistance in PC2 cells and provide a basis for personalized treatment for dogs with PC.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguang Xiao ◽  
Irina Lerman ◽  
Stephen R Hammes

Abstract Studies examining many different cancers have demonstrated that inflammation plays a critical role in tumor progression, in part through the release of proteases from stromal cells that function to either remodel the tumor microenvironment or to directly stimulate cancer cells to grow. One specific protease, neutrophil elastase (NE), has been shown to be a critical regulator of cancer growth in several mouse models. Accordingly, our laboratory demonstrated that NE, most likely from granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells, potentially promotes prostate cancer progression in several different in-vivo and in-vitro models. To date, however, little is known regarding the mechanisms utilized by NE to promote tumor growth. It has been suggested that NE might cleave epidermal growth factor (EGF) or transforming growth factor-α from the cell surface to induce activation of EGFR/ERK signal transduction in an autocrine fashion. Alternatively, NE has been shown to enter into early endosomes to degrade insulin receptor substrate-I, ultimately resulting in phosphoinositol 3-kinase hyperactivity and subsequent tumor cell proliferation. Here we demonstrate that NE triggered proliferative signals in six prostate cell lines representing the spectrum of prostate cell differentiation, including normal prostatic epithelium, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and metastatic prostate cancer. Focusing on ERK signaling, we found that the stimulatory effect of NE on ERK phosphorylation was dose dependent and was abrogated by small interfering RNA induced EGFR knockdown, as well as by pretreatment of cells with irreversible EGFR inhibitor AG1478. Unlike EGF, however, NE-initiated EGFR phosphorylation was minimal. Thus, while EGFR appears to be critical for NE-induced ERK activation, perhaps it is not extensively activated directly by NE. Notably, discoidin domain receptor-1 (DDR1) was strongly expressed in normal prostate epithelium cells, but gradually decreased and had little expression in benign and metastatic prostate cancer cells sequentially. Nevertheless, similar to EGFR knockdown, silencing of DDR1 in all cell types inhibited NE mediated pERK upregulation, suggesting that DDR1 may also be important for NE-induced action. Together, our data suggest that NE, in concert with low level signals from the EGFR and DDR1, play an important role in promoting prostate cell proliferation both in normal and cancerous prostate epithelial cells.


Cancers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Stefan Worst ◽  
Christopher Previti ◽  
Katja Nitschke ◽  
Nicolle Diessl ◽  
Julia Christina Gross ◽  
...  

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are shed by many different cell types. Their nucleic acids content offers new opportunities for biomarker research in different solid tumors. The role of EV RNA in prostate cancer (PCa) is still largely unknown. EVs were isolated from different benign and malignant prostate cell lines and blood plasma from patients with PCa (n = 18) and controls with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) (n = 7). Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), Western blot, electron microscopy, and flow cytometry analysis were used for the characterization of EVs. Non-coding RNA expression profiling of PC3 metastatic PCa cells and their EVs was performed by next generation sequencing (NGS). miRNAs differentially expressed in PC3 EVs were validated with qRT-PCR in EVs derived from additional cell lines and patient plasma and from matched tissue samples. 92 miRNAs were enriched and 48 miRNAs were depleted in PC3 EVs compared to PC3 cells, which could be confirmed by qRT-PCR. miR-99b-5p was significantly higher expressed in malignant compared to benign EVs. Furthermore, expression profiling showed miR-10a-5p (p = 0.018) and miR-29b-3p (p = 0.002), but not miR-99b-5p, to be overexpressed in plasma-derived EVs from patients with PCa compared with controls. In the corresponding tissue samples, no significant differences in the miRNA expression could be observed. We thus propose that EV-associated miR-10a-5p and miR-29b-3p could serve as potential new PCa detection markers.


PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleena A. Saidova ◽  
Daria M. Potashnikova ◽  
Anna V. Tvorogova ◽  
Ivan V. Maly ◽  
Wilma A. Hofmann ◽  
...  

Background Prostate cancer (PC) diagnostics and treatment often present a challenging task due to cancer subtype heterogeneity and differential disease progression in patient subgroups. Hence, the critical issue is finding a reliable and sensitive diagnostic and prognostic PC marker, especially for cases of biopsies with low percentages of cancer cells. Isoform A of myosin 1C was shown to be expressed in PC cells and responsible for their invasive properties, however, its feasibility for diagnostic purposes remains to be elucidated. Methods To verify the role of myosin 1C isoform A mRNA expression as a putative prostate cancer marker we performed RT qPCR normalized by three reference genes (GAPDH, YWHAZ, HPRT1) on PC3, RWPE-1, LNCaP and 22Rv1 cell lines. Myosin 1C isoform A detection specificity was confirmed by immunofluorescence staining, cancer and non-cancer prostate cell lines were immunophenotyped by flow cytometry. Results Median normalized mRNA expression level of myosin 1C isoform A in PC cells (PC3 and 22Rv1) is two orders of magnitude higher compared to RWPE-1 cells, which functionally correspond to benign prostate cells. Myosin 1C isoform A expression allows PC cell detection even at a dilution ratio of 1:1000 cancer to non-cancer cells. At the protein level, the mean fluorescence intensity of myosin 1C isoform A staining in PC3 nuclei was only twice as high as in RWPE-1, while the immunophenotypes of both cell lines were similar (CD44+/CD90-/CD133-/CD57-/CD24+-). Conclusions We report a distinct difference in myosin 1C isoform A mRNA levels in malignant (PC3) and benign (RWPE-1) prostate cell lines and suggest a combination of three reference genes for accurate data normalization. For the first time we provide an immunophenotype comparison of RWPE-1 and PC3 cells and demonstrate that RT qPCR analysis of MYO 1C A using appropriate reference genes is sufficient for PC detection even in low-abundance cancer specimens.


1999 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Nickerson ◽  
H Huynh

Vitamin D analogues have an antiproliferative effect on prostate cancer cells in vitro and thus have been proposed as candidates for chemoprevention of prostate cancer. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I has been shown to protect cells from apoptosis and plays an essential role in normal prostate physiology. We have studied the effects of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 analogue EB1089 on the IGF system in the prostate in vivo. Treatment of rats with EB1089 for 14 days caused a 25% decrease in ventral prostate weight. Apoptosis was detected in prostate sections of EB1089-treated rats by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling(TUNEL) assay and histologic examination of hematoxylin/eosin stained tissue sections indicated that secretory epithelial cells were flattened, a characteristic of cells undergoing pressure-induced atrophy. Ventral prostate regression was associated with 15- to 25-fold increases in gene expression of IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs)-2,-3,-4 and -5. We also observed a 40-fold increase in prostatic IGF-I mRNA levels in response to EB1089. Although we have previously shown that castration of rats leads to upregulation of IGFBPs in the ventral prostate, EB1089 treatment had no effect on serum levels of dihydrotestosterone or free testosterone. These results suggest that prostate regression induced by EB1089 may be related to alterations in availability of IGF-I as a result of increased production of IGFBPs.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Katsogiannou ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Boyer ◽  
Alberto Valdeolivas ◽  
Elisabeth Remy ◽  
Laurence Calzone ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTBackgroundProstate cancer is a major public health issue, mainly because patients relapse after androgen deprivation therapy. Proteomic strategies, aiming to reflect the functional activity of cells, are nowadays among the leading approaches to tackle the challenges not only of better diagnosis, but also of unraveling mechanistic details related to disease etiology and progression.MethodsWe conducted here a large SILAC-based Mass Spectrometry experiment to map the proteomes and phosphoproteomes of four widely used prostate cell lines, namely PNT1A, LNCaP, DU145 and PC3, representative of different cancerous and hormonal status.ResultsWe identified more than 3000 proteins and phosphosites, from which we quantified more than 1000 proteins and 500 phosphosites after stringent filtering. Extensive exploration of this proteomics and phosphoproteomics dataset allowed characterizing housekeeping as well as cell-line specific proteins, phosphosites and functional features of each cell line. In addition, by comparing the sensitive and resistant cell lines, we identified protein and phosphosites differentially expressed in the resistance context. Further data integration in a molecular network highlighted the differentially expressed pathways, in particular migration and invasion, RNA splicing, DNA damage repair response and transcription regulation.ConclusionsOverall, this study proposes a valuable resource toward the characterization of proteome and phosphoproteome of four widely used prostate cell lines and reveals candidates to be involved in prostate cancer progression for further experimental validation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sechaba Maleka ◽  
Antonio Serafin ◽  
Roswita Hamunyela ◽  
Mogammad Hamid ◽  
Daniel Achel ◽  
...  

Targeted therapy for prostate cancer may offer potential improvement over current conventional therapies because of its specificity. Although conventional treatments are effective, they are not always curative, andhave several limitations. In prostate cancer, activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathways have been implicatedin tumorigenesis, and resistance to both conventional and targeted anticancer therapies. Single-target therapies may fail due to cellular heterogeneity. Concomitant targeting of EGFR and PI3K/mTOR cell signaling components may enhance the efficacy of radiotherapy. In this study, the effect of an EGFR inhibitor (AG-1478) and a dual inhibitor of PI3K and mTOR (NVP-BEZ235) on the radiation response of a human prostate carcinoma cell line (DU145) and a normal prostate cell line (1542N) was investigated, using the colony forming assay. Treatment ofDU145 cells with AG-1478 and NVP-BEZ235, either singly or in combination, resulted in a slight radiosensitisation of DU145 cells. Neither AG-1478 nor a cocktail of both inhibitors had an effect on the radiation response of the 1542N cell line. Interestingly, NVP-BEZ235 significantly protected 1542N cells from radiation-induced cell death. These data suggest that a specific inhibitor of PI3K and mTOR (NVP-BEZ235) could potentially be effective as a radio-protector.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 3291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Eun Park ◽  
Kiumars Shamloo ◽  
Timothy A. Kristedja ◽  
Shaban Darwish ◽  
Marco Bisoffi ◽  
...  

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignancy in men and is the leading cause of cancer-related male mortality. A disulfide cyclic peptide ligand [CTVRTSADC] 1 has been previously found to target extra domain B of fibronectin (EDB-FN) in the extracellular matrix that can differentiate aggressive PCa from benign prostatic hyperplasia. We synthesized and optimized the stability of ligand 1 by amide cyclization to obtain [KTVRTSADE] 8 using Fmoc/tBu solid-phase chemistry. Optimized targeting ligand 8 was found to be stable in phosphate buffered saline (PBS, pH 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5) and under redox conditions, with a half-life longer than 8 h. Confocal microscopy studies demonstrated increased binding of ligand 8 to EDB-FN compared to ligand 1. Therefore, we hypothesized that the EDB-FN targeted peptides (1 and 8) conjugated with an anticancer drug via a hydrolyzable linker would provide selective cytotoxicity to the cancer cells. To test our hypothesis, we selected both the normal prostate cell line, RWPE-1, and the cancerous prostate cell lines, PC3, DU-145, LNCaP, and C4-2, to evaluate the anticancer activity of synthesized peptide–drug conjugates. Docetaxel (Doce) and doxorubicin (Dox) were used as anticancer drugs. Dox conjugate 13 containing disulfide linkage showed comparable cytotoxicity versus Dox after 72 h incubation in all the cancer cell lines, whereas it was found to be less cytotoxic on RWPE-1, suggesting that it can act as a Dox prodrug. Doce conjugate 14 was found to be less cytotoxic in all the cell lines as compared to drug alone.


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