scholarly journals Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen as Biomarker and Therapeutic Target for Prostate Cancer

Author(s):  
Philipp Wolf
2005 ◽  
Vol 288 (5) ◽  
pp. C975-C981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayyappan K. Rajasekaran ◽  
Gopalakrishnapillai Anilkumar ◽  
Jason J. Christiansen

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a metallopeptidase expressed predominantly in prostate cancer (PCa) cells. PSMA is considered a biomarker for PCa and is under intense investigation for use as an imaging and therapeutic target. Although the clinical utility of PSMA in the detection and treatment of PCa is evident and is being pursued, very little is known about its basic biological function in PCa cells. The purpose of this review is to highlight the possibility that PSMA might be a multifunctional protein. We suggest that PSMA may function as a receptor internalizing a putative ligand, an enzyme playing a role in nutrient uptake, and a peptidase involved in signal transduction in prostate epithelial cells. Insights into the possible functions of PSMA should improve the diagnostic and therapeutic values of this clinically important molecule.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojtek Lesniak ◽  
Yixuan Yu ◽  
Jeeun Kang ◽  
Srikanth Boinapally ◽  
Sangeeta Ray Banerjee ◽  
...  

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising diagnostic and therapeutic target for prostate cancer (PC). Poly(amidoamine) [PAMAM] dendrimers serve as versatile scaffolds for imaging agents and drug delivery that can...


2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
Matthias D. Hofer ◽  
Sven Perner ◽  
Haojie Li ◽  
Rainer Kuefer ◽  
Richard E. Hautmann ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 205846012110225
Author(s):  
Omer Aras ◽  
Stefan Harmsen ◽  
Richard Ting ◽  
Haluk B Sayman

Targeted radionuclide therapy has emerged as a promising and potentially curative strategy for high-grade prostate cancer. However, limited data are available on efficacy, quality of life, and pretherapeutic biomarkers. Here, we highlight the case of a patient with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-positive metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer who displayed complete response to 225Ac-PSMA-617 after having been resistant to standard-of-care therapy, then initially partially responsive but later resistant to subsequent immunotherapy, and resistant to successive 177Lu-PSMA-617. In addition, the patient’s baseline germline mutation likely predisposed him to more aggressive disease.


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