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Mandl A, Jasmine S, Krueger T, Kumar R, Coleman IM, Dalrymple SL, Antony L, Rosen DM, Jing Y, Hanratty B, Patel RA, Jin-Yih L, Dias J, Celatka CA, Tapper AE, Kleppe M, Kanayama M, Speranzini V, Wang YZ, Luo J, Corey E, Sena LA, Casero RA, Lotan T, Trock BJ, Kachhap SK, Denmeade SR, Carducci MA, Mattevi A, Haffner MC, Nelson PS, Rienhoff HY, Isaacs JT, Brennen WN. LSD1 inhibition suppresses ASCL1 and de-represses YAP1 to drive potent activity against neuroendocrine prostate cancer. bioRxiv 2024:2024.01.17.576106. [PMID: 38328141 PMCID: PMC10849473 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.17.576106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
Abstract
Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1 or KDM1A ) has emerged as a critical mediator of tumor progression in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Among mCRPC subtypes, neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an exceptionally aggressive variant driven by lineage plasticity, an adaptive resistance mechanism to androgen receptor axis-targeted therapies. Our study shows that LSD1 expression is elevated in NEPC and associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes. Using genetic approaches, we validated the on-target effects of LSD1 inhibition across various models. We investigated the therapeutic potential of bomedemstat, an orally bioavailable, irreversible LSD1 inhibitor with low nanomolar potency. Our findings demonstrate potent antitumor activity against CRPC models, including tumor regressions in NEPC patient-derived xenografts. Mechanistically, our study uncovers that LSD1 inhibition suppresses the neuronal transcriptional program by downregulating ASCL1 through disrupting LSD1:INSM1 interactions and de-repressing YAP1 silencing. Our data support the clinical development of LSD1 inhibitors for treating CRPC - especially the aggressive NE phenotype. Statement of Significance Neuroendocrine prostate cancer presents a clinical challenge due to the lack of effective treatments. Our research demonstrates that bomedemstat, a potent and selective LSD1 inhibitor, effectively combats neuroendocrine prostate cancer by downregulating the ASCL1- dependent NE transcriptional program and re-expressing YAP1.
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Parayath NN, Stephan SB, Koehne AL, Nelson PS, Stephan MT. In vitro-transcribed antigen receptor mRNA nanocarriers for transient expression in circulating T cells in vivo. Nat Commun 2020; 11:6080. [PMID: 33247092 PMCID: PMC7695830 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19486-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Engineering chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) or T cell receptors (TCR) helps create disease-specific T cells for targeted therapy, but the cost and rigor associated with manufacturing engineered T cells ex vivo can be prohibitive, so programing T cells in vivo may be a viable alternative. Here we report an injectable nanocarrier that delivers in vitro-transcribed (IVT) CAR or TCR mRNA for transiently reprograming of circulating T cells to recognize disease-relevant antigens. In mouse models of human leukemia, prostate cancer and hepatitis B-induced hepatocellular carcinoma, repeated infusions of these polymer nanocarriers induce sufficient host T cells expressing tumor-specific CARs or virus-specific TCRs to cause disease regression at levels similar to bolus infusions of ex vivo engineered lymphocytes. Given their ease of manufacturing, distribution and administration, these nanocarriers, and the associated platforms, could become a therapeutic for a wide range of diseases. Ex vivo engineering of antigen-specific T cells has shown therapeutic efficacy but can be costly and scarce. Here the authors show that in vitro-transcribed antigen receptor mRNA packaged in nanocarriers can directly induce, in vivo, transient their expression in circulating T cells to provide therapeutic effects in mouse models of cancer or viral infection.
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- N N Parayath
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Translational Pathology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Human Biology and Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.,Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA. .,Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. .,Department of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Gillessen S, Omlin A, Attard G, de Bono JS, Efstathiou E, Fizazi K, Halabi S, Nelson PS, Sartor O, Smith MR, Soule HR, Akaza H, Beer TM, Beltran H, Chinnaiyan AM, Daugaard G, Davis ID, De Santis M, Drake CG, Eeles RA, Fanti S, Gleave ME, Heidenreich A, Hussain M, James ND, Lecouvet FE, Logothetis CJ, Mastris K, Nilsson S, Oh WK, Olmos D, Padhani AR, Parker C, Rubin MA, Schalken JA, Scher HI, Sella A, Shore ND, Small EJ, Sternberg CN, Suzuki H, Sweeney CJ, Tannock IF, Tombal B. Management of patients with advanced prostate cancer: recommendations of the St Gallen Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) 2015. Ann Oncol 2019; 30:e3. [PMID: 27141017 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Armstrong AJ, Antonarakis ES, Taplin ME, Kelly WK, Beltran H, Fizazi K, Dahut WL, Shore N, Slovin S, George D, Carducci MA, Corn P, Danila D, Dreicer R, Heath E, Rathkopf D, Liu G, Nanus D, Stein M, Smith MR, Sternberg C, Wilding G, Nelson PS, Halabi S, Kantoff P, Clarke NW, Evans CP, Heidenreich A, Mottet N, Gleave M, Morris MJ, Scher HI. Naming disease states for clinical utility in prostate cancer: a rose by any other name might not smell as sweet. Ann Oncol 2019; 29:23-25. [PMID: 29088323 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- A J Armstrong
- Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France
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- Medical Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA
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- Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Newark, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Cancer Center, Boston, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Division of Human Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Urology, The Christie Clinic, National Health Service, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Urology, UC Davis, Sacramento, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University Hospital Aschen, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital St. Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
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- Department of Urologic Sciences, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.,Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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Uo T, Dvinge H, Sprenger CC, Bradley RK, Nelson PS, Plymate SR. Systematic and functional characterization of novel androgen receptor variants arising from alternative splicing in the ligand-binding domain. Oncogene 2016; 36:1440-1450. [PMID: 27694897 PMCID: PMC5344735 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2016.313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The presence of intact ligand-binding domain (LBD) ensures the strict androgen-dependent regulation of androgen receptor (AR): binding of androgen induces structural reorganization of LBD resulting in release of AR from HSP90, suppression of nuclear export which otherwise dominates over import and nuclear translocation of AR as a transcription factor. Thus, loss or defects of the LBD abolish constraint from un-liganded LBD as exemplified by constitutively active AR variants (AR-Vs), which are associated with emerging resistance mechanism to anti-AR therapy in castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Recent analysis of the AR splicing landscapes revealed mCRPC harboring multiple AR-Vs with diverse patterns of inclusion/exclusion of exons (exons 4–8) corresponding to LBD to produce namely exon-skipping variants. In silico construction for these AR-Vs revealed four novel AR-Vs having unique features: Exclusion of specified exons introduces a frameshift in variants v5es, v6es and v7es. ARv56es maintains the reading frame resulting in the inclusion of the C-terminal half of the LBD. We systematically characterized these AR-Vs regarding their subcellular localization, affinity for HSP90 and transactivation capability. Notably, ARv5es was free from HSP90, exclusively nuclear, and constitutively active similarly as previously reported for v567es. In contrast, v6es and v7es were similar in that they are cytoplasmic, transcriptionally inactive and bind HSP90, ARv56es was present in both nucleus and cytoplasm, does not bind HSP90 and is transcriptionally inactive. Converting these transcriptionally inactive AR-Vs into active forms, we identified the two separate elements that allosterically suppress otherwise constitutively active AR-Vs; one in exon 5 for v6es and v7es and the other in exon 8 for v56es. Our findings identify a novel constitutively active AR-V, ARv5es and establish a method to predict potential activities of AR-Vs carrying impaired LBD.
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- T Uo
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Liss MA, Schenk JM, Faino AV, Newcomb LF, Boyer H, Brooks JD, Carroll PR, Dash A, Fabrizio MD, Gleave ME, Nelson PS, Neuhouser ML, Wei JT, Zheng Y, Wright JL, Lin DW, Thompson IM. A diagnosis of prostate cancer and pursuit of active surveillance is not followed by weight loss: potential for a teachable moment. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2016; 19:390-394. [PMID: 27431498 DOI: 10.1038/pcan.2016.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2016] [Revised: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Obesity is a risk factor for incident prostate cancer (PC) as well as risk of disease progression and mortality. We hypothesized that men diagnosed with lower-risk PC and who elected active surveillance (AS) for their cancer management would likely initiate lifestyle changes that lead to weight loss. METHODS Patients were enrolled in the Prostate Active Surveillance Study (PASS), a multicenter prospective biomarker discovery and validation study of men who have chosen AS for their PC. Data from 442 men diagnosed with PC within 1 year of study entry who completed a standard of care 12-month follow-up visit were analyzed. We examined the change in weight and body mass index (BMI) over the first year of study participation. RESULTS After 1 year on AS, 7.5% (33/442) of patients had lost 5% or more of their on-study weight. The proportion of men who lost 5% or more weight was similar across categories of baseline BMI: normal/underweight (8%), overweight (6%) and obese (10%, χ2 test P=0.44). The results were similar for patients enrolled in the study 1 year or 6 months after diagnosis. By contrast, after 1 year, 7.7% (34/442) of patients had gained >5% of their weight. CONCLUSIONS Only 7.5% of men with low-risk PC enrolled in AS lost a modest (⩾5%) amount of weight after diagnosis. Given that obesity is related to PC progression and mortality, targeted lifestyle interventions may be effective at this 'teachable moment', as men begin AS for low-risk PC.
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- M A Liss
- Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Tretiakova MS, Wei W, Boyer HD, Newcomb LF, Hawley S, Auman H, Vakar-Lopez F, McKenney JK, Fazli L, Simko J, Troyer DA, Hurtado-Coll A, Thompson IM, Carroll PR, Ellis WJ, Gleave ME, Nelson PS, Lin DW, True LD, Feng Z, Brooks JD. Prognostic value of Ki67 in localized prostate carcinoma: a multi-institutional study of >1000 prostatectomies. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2016; 19:264-70. [PMID: 27136741 DOI: 10.1038/pcan.2016.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Revised: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Expanding interest in and use of active surveillance for early state prostate cancer (PC) has increased need for prognostic biomarkers. Using a multi-institutional tissue microarray resource including over 1000 radical prostatectomy samples, we sought to correlate Ki67 expression captured by an automated image analysis system with clinicopathological features and validate its utility as a clinical grade test in predicting cancer-specific outcomes. METHODS After immunostaining, the Ki67 proliferation index (PI) of tumor areas of each core (three cancer cores/case) was analyzed using a nuclear quantification algorithm (Aperio). We assessed whether Ki67 PI was associated with clinicopathological factors and recurrence-free survival (RFS) including biochemical recurrence, metastasis or PC death (7-year median follow-up). RESULTS In 1004 PCs (∼4000 tissue cores) Ki67 PI showed significantly higher inter-tumor (0.68) than intra-tumor variation (0.39). Ki67 PI was associated with stage (P<0.0001), seminal vesicle invasion (SVI, P=0.02), extracapsular extension (ECE, P<0.0001) and Gleason score (GS, P<0.0001). Ki67 PI as a continuous variable significantly correlated with recurrence-free, overall and disease-specific survival by multivariable Cox proportional hazard model (hazards ratio (HR)=1.04-1.1, P=0.02-0.0008). High Ki67 score (defined as ⩾5%) was significantly associated with worse RFS (HR=1.47, P=0.0007) and worse overall survival (HR=2.03, P=0.03). CONCLUSIONS In localized PC treated by radical prostatectomy, higher Ki67 PI assessed using a clinical grade automated algorithm is strongly associated with a higher GS, stage, SVI and ECE and greater probability of recurrence.
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- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Canary Foundation, Redwood City, CA, USA
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- Canary Foundation, Redwood City, CA, USA
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
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- University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Gillessen S, Omlin A, Attard G, de Bono JS, Efstathiou E, Fizazi K, Halabi S, Nelson PS, Sartor O, Smith MR, Soule HR, Akaza H, Beer TM, Beltran H, Chinnaiyan AM, Daugaard G, Davis ID, De Santis M, Drake CG, Eeles RA, Fanti S, Gleave ME, Heidenreich A, Hussain M, James ND, Lecouvet FE, Logothetis CJ, Mastris K, Nilsson S, Oh WK, Olmos D, Padhani AR, Parker C, Rubin MA, Schalken JA, Scher HI, Sella A, Shore ND, Small EJ, Sternberg CN, Suzuki H, Sweeney CJ, Tannock IF, Tombal B. Management of patients with advanced prostate cancer: recommendations of the St Gallen Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) 2015. Ann Oncol 2015; 26:1589-604. [PMID: 26041764 PMCID: PMC4511225 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2015] [Revised: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The first St Gallen Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) Expert Panel identified and reviewed the available evidence for the ten most important areas of controversy in advanced prostate cancer (APC) management. The successful registration of several drugs for castration-resistant prostate cancer and the recent studies of chemo-hormonal therapy in men with castration-naïve prostate cancer have led to considerable uncertainty as to the best treatment choices, sequence of treatment options and appropriate patient selection. Management recommendations based on expert opinion, and not based on a critical review of the available evidence, are presented. The various recommendations carried differing degrees of support, as reflected in the wording of the article text and in the detailed voting results recorded in supplementary Material, available at Annals of Oncology online. Detailed decisions on treatment as always will involve consideration of disease extent and location, prior treatments, host factors, patient preferences as well as logistical and economic constraints. Inclusion of men with APC in clinical trials should be encouraged.
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- S Gillessen
- Department of Oncology/Haematology, Kantonsspital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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- Department of Oncology/Haematology, Kantonsspital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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- Prostate Cancer Targeted Therapy Group and Drug Development Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Prostate Cancer Targeted Therapy Group and Drug Development Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, David H. Koch Centre, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, USA Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Cancer Medicine, Institut Gustave Roussy, University of Paris Sud, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham
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- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle
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- Tulane Cancer Centre, Tulane University, New Orleans
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre, Boston
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- Prostate Cancer Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
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- Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
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- Michigan Centre for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology Department of Urology, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Monash University and Eastern Health, Eastern Health Clinical School, Box Hill, Australia
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- Cancer Research Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Applied Cancer Research, Kaiser Franz Josef-Spital, Vienna, Austria
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- Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and The Brady Urological Institute, Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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- The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Policlinico S. Orsola, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Urological Sciences, Vancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Urologie, RWTH University Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Cancer Research Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Centre du Cancer et Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, David H. Koch Centre, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, USA
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- Europa Uomo Prostate Patients, Clayhall Ilford, UK
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Haematology and Medical Oncology, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Prostate Cancer Clinical Research Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid CNIO-IBIMA Genitourinary Cancer Unit, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen de la Victoria y Regional de Málaga, Málaga Centro Integral Oncológico Clara Campal (CIOCC), Madrid, Spain
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- Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood
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- Prostate Cancer Targeted Therapy Group, Academic Urology Unit and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Institute for Precision Medicine, Meyer Cancer Center, Department of Pathology and Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork Presbyterian, New York, USA
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- Department of Urology, Radboud University, Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York
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- Department of Oncology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Zerifin, Israel
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- Department of Urology, Carolina Urologic Research Centre, Myrtle Beach
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, San Camillo and Forlanini Hospitals, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Urology, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Haematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Service D'Urologie, Institut de Recherche Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Grasso CS, Cani AK, Hovelson DH, Quist MJ, Douville NJ, Yadati V, Amin AM, Nelson PS, Betz BL, Liu CJ, Knudsen KE, Cooney KA, Feng FY, McDaniel AS, Tomlins SA. Integrative molecular profiling of routine clinical prostate cancer specimens. Ann Oncol 2015; 26:1110-1118. [PMID: 25735316 PMCID: PMC4516047 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Revised: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Comprehensive molecular profiling led to the recognition of multiple prostate cancer (PCa) molecular subtypes and driving alterations, but translating these findings to clinical practice is challenging. PATIENTS AND METHODS We developed a formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue compatible integrative assay for PCa molecular subtyping and interrogation of relevant genetic/transcriptomic alterations (MiPC). We applied MiPC, which combines capture-based next generation sequencing and quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR), to 53 FFPE PCa specimens representing cases not well represented in frozen tissue cohorts, including 8 paired primary tumor and lymph node metastases. Results were validated using multiplexed PCR based NGS and Sanger sequencing. RESULTS We identified known and novel potential driving, somatic mutations and copy number alterations, including a novel BRAF T599_V600insHT mutation and CYP11B2 amplification in a patient treated with ketoconazole (a potent CYP11B2 inhibitor). qRT-PCR integration enabled comprehensive molecular subtyping and provided complementary information, such as androgen receptor (AR) target gene module assessment in advanced cases and SPINK1 over-expression. MiPC identified highly concordant profiles for all 8 tumor/lymph node metastasis pairs, consistent with limited heterogeneity amongst driving events. MiPC and exome sequencing were performed on separately isolated conventional acinar PCa and prostatic small cell carcinoma (SCC) components from the same FFPE resection specimen to enable direct comparison of histologically distinct components. While both components showed TMPRSS2:ERG fusions, the SCC component exclusively harbored complete TP53 inactivation (frameshift variant and copy loss) and two CREBBP mutations. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate the feasibility of integrative profiling of routine PCa specimens, which may have utility for understanding disease biology and enabling personalized medicine applications.
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- C S Grasso
- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology; Department of Pathology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Departments of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology; Department of Pathology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Division of Human Biology; Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Department of Cancer Biology; Departments of Urology; Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Internal Medicine; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
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- Radiation Oncology; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology; Urology; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
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Lucas JM, True L, Hawley S, Matsumura M, Morrissey C, Vessella R, Nelson PS. The androgen-regulated type II serine protease TMPRSS2 is differentially expressed and mislocalized in prostate adenocarcinoma. J Pathol 2008; 215:118-25. [PMID: 18338334 DOI: 10.1002/path.2330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2) is an androgen-regulated member of the type two transmembrane protease (TTSP) family. Two other members of the TTSP family, matriptase and hepsin, are over-expressed in prostate adenocarcinoma and mechanistically influence cancer cell invasion and metastasis. This study was performed to determine TMPRSS2 protein expression in primary and metastatic prostate cancers. We developed a monoclonal antibody capable of the sensitive and specific detection of TMPRSS2 protein. TMPRSS2 regulation by androgen and presence in seminal fluid was measured. TMPRSS2 localization and expression was evaluated in 415 cases of primary prostate cancer and 144 prostate cancer metastases by immunohistochemistry. We determined that TMPRSS2 protein expression is regulated by androgens and that TMPRSS2 is a component of the normal seminal fluid proteome. TMPRSS2 protein is abundantly expressed in the prostate, with low levels in the epithelia of the colon, stomach, epididymis and breast. Pancreatic acini, hepatic bile ducts, testicular Leydig cells and the kidney also express TMPRSS2. In the prostate, TMPRSS2 protein is specifically localized to the secretory epithelium, with enhanced expression in the plasma membrane orientated towards the ductal lumen. TMPRSS2 expression was significantly higher in both neoplastic prostate and in the epithelium of prostatic hyperplasia compared to normal epithelium (p < 0.01). TMPRSS2 expression was further elevated in higher Gleason grade cancers (patterns 4 and 5) compared to pattern 3 (p = 0.04). Furthermore, in most high-grade cancers, TMPRSS2 was mislocalized, being expressed in the cytoplasm as well as in the cell membrane. Prostate cancer metastases also generally expressed high levels of TMPRSS2. In summary, the TMPRSS2 protease is expressed highly in primary and metastatic prostate cancers and is associated with tumour cell differentiation. Based on studies with the related proteins matriptase and hepsin, TMPRSS2 should be investigated for causal roles in prostate carcinogenesis.
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- J M Lucas
- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Gulati R, Yu EY, Telesca D, Jiang P, Montgomery RB, Tam S, Russell KJ, Nelson PS, Etzioni RB, Higano CS. Testosterone kinetics in the first cycle of intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) for men with localized or biochemical relapse (BR) of prostate cancer (PC). J Clin Oncol 2008. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2008.26.15_suppl.5134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mostaghel EA, Coleman R, Linda G, Coleman IM, Nelson PS. Effects of 5α reductase inhibition on stromal and epithelial genes associated with the development of high grade prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol 2008. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2008.26.15_suppl.5054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Risk M, Coleman I, Dumpit R, Gentleman R, Kristal AR, Knudsen BS, Nelson PS, Lin DW. Differential gene expression in normal prostate epithelium of men with and without prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol 2008. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2008.26.15_suppl.5142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Experimental evidence suggests that ageing-associated alterations in the tissue microenvironment act to promote prostate carcinogenesis. In this review, we survey the cellular state of senescence, review its causes, and describe associations with ageing and cancer. We further discuss senescent stromal gene expression changes, which may mediate these effects, and that may serve as therapeutic targets.
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- J P Dean
- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Telesca D, Higano CS, Yu EY, Montgomery RB, Tam SL, Russell KJ, Nelson PS, Etzioni RB. Duration of the first off treatment period is associated with time to androgen independence (AI) and survival in men with localized or biochemical relapse of prostate cancer treated on a prospective trial of intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD). J Clin Oncol 2007. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2007.25.18_suppl.5146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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5146 Background: Patients (pts) with localized prostate cancer or biochemical relapse who are treated with AD eventually develop AI and die. In an effort to better understand the natural history of this population, various characteristics of the patients and the first cycle of IAD were analyzed. Methods: Eligible pts had histological diagnosis of prostate cancer, no evidence of bone metastases by bone scan or visceral disease by CT scan, and at least 2 consecutive rising PSA = 2 weeks apart after diagnosis, radical prostatectomy (RP), or radiation therapy (XRT). Pts were treated with IAD consisting of 9 months of leuprolide acetate and an anti-androgen. Subsequently AD was stopped and monthly PSA and testosterone levels were followed during the off treatment period (Toff) until the PSA reached a threshold value (1 ng/mL if prostate removed or 4 ng/mL if prostate intact). At that time AD was resumed as before in a new cycle. Pts were treated until AI, defined as two rising PSAs while on AD with a castrate level of testosterone. Results: To date, 57 of 88 accrued pts are evaluable for this analysis. The median age at diagnosis is 62.2 yrs (range 43.9–77.4 yrs), median Gleason sum is 7. For the 49 pts with biochemical relapse after prior RP or XRT, median time from diagnosis to PSA relapse is 3.2 yrs (0–14.7 yrs) and from diagnosis to IAD was 4.9 yrs (range 0.1–14.9 yrs). For the 8 pts with no prior therapy, median time from diagnosis to IAD is 0.2 yrs (range 0–3.9 yrs). The median PSA value for all pts at study entry is 16 ng/mL (range 4–175 ng/mL); the value at study entry or after 3, 5, or 7 months of AD is not associated with time to AI or survival. Entry PSA is predictive of length of first Toff, and the length of the first Toff is associated with both time to AI (P<0.010) and survival (P<0.01). Conclusions: The duration of the first Toff in other studies of IAD should be evaluated for similar associations with time to AI and survival. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
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- D. Telesca
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- C W Schweinfest
- Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
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- G L Corthals
- Mass Spectrometry & Protein Analysis Laboratory, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- P S Nelson
- Divisions of Human Biology and Clinical Research, D4-100, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue N., PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
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Takayama TK, McMullen BA, Nelson PS, Matsumura M, Fujikawa K. Characterization of hK4 (prostase), a prostate-specific serine protease: activation of the precursor of prostate specific antigen (pro-PSA) and single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator and degradation of prostatic acid phosphatase. Biochemistry 2001; 40:15341-8. [PMID: 11735417 DOI: 10.1021/bi015775e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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hK4 (prostase, KLK4), a recently cloned prostate-specific serine protease and a member of the tissue kallikrein family, is a zymogen composed of 228 amino acid residues including an amino-terminal propiece, Ser-Cys-Ser-Gln-. A chimeric form of hK4 (ch-hK4) was constructed in which the propiece of hK4 was replaced by that of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to create an activation site susceptible to trypsin-type proteases. ch-hK4 was expressed in Escherichia coli, isolated from inclusion bodies, refolded, and purified with an overall yield of 25%. The zymogen was readily self-activated during the refolding process to generate an active form (21 kDa) of hK4 (rhK4). rhK4 cleaved the chromogenic substrates Val-Leu-Arg-pNA (S-2266), Pro-Phe-Arg-pNA (S-2302), Ile-Glu-Gly-Arg-pNA (S-2222), and Val-Leu-Lys-pNA (S-2251), indicating that rhK4 has a trypsin-type substrate specificity. The rhK4 was inhibited by aprotinin (6 kDa), forming an equimolar 27 kDa complex. rhK4 readily activated both the precursor of PSA (pro-PSA) and single chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (scuPA, pro-uPA). rhK4 also completely degraded prostatic acid phosphatase but failed to cleave serum albumin, another protein purified from human seminal plasma. These results indicate that hK4 may have a role in the physiologic processing of seminal plasma proteins such as pro-PSA, as well as in the pathogenesis of prostate cancer through its activation of pro-uPA.
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- T K Takayama
- Departments of Biochemistry and Urology, University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle, Washington 98195-7350, USA.
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- D F Penson
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1660 South Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA.
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The mouse has become an indispensable and versatile model organism for the study of development, genetics, behavior, and disease. The application of comprehensive gene expression profiling technologies to compare normal and diseased tissues or to assess molecular alterations resulting from various experimental interventions has the potential to provide highly detailed qualitative and quantitative descriptions of these processes. Ideally, to interpret experimental data, the magnitude and diversity of gene expression for the system under study should be well characterized, yet little is known about the normal variation of mouse gene expression in vivo. To assess natural differences in murine gene expression, we used a 5406-clone spotted cDNA microarray to quantitate transcript levels in the kidney, liver, and testis from each of 6 normal male C57BL6 mice. We used ANOVA to compare the variance across the six mice to the variance among four replicate experiments performed for each mouse tissue. For the 6 kidney samples, 102 of 3,088 genes (3.3%) exhibited a statistically significant mouse variance at a level of 0.05. In the testis, 62 of 3,252 genes (1.9%) showed statistically significant variance, and in the liver, there were 21 of 2,514 (0.8%) genes with significantly variable expression. Immune-modulated, stress-induced, and hormonally regulated genes were highly represented among the transcripts that were most variable. The expression levels of several genes varied significantly in more than one tissue. These studies help to define the baseline level of variability in mouse gene expression and emphasize the importance of replicate microarray experiments.
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- C C Pritchard
- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA
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New technologies designed to facilitate the comprehensive analyses of genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes in health and disease are poised to exert a dramatic change on the pace of cancer research and to impact significantly on the care of cancer patients. These approaches have already demonstrated the power of molecular medicine in discriminating among disease subtypes that are not recognizable using traditional pathological criteria and in identifying specific genetic events involved in cancer progression. This review outlines the current status of these technologies and highlights recent studies in which they have been applied in the context of carcinogenesis.
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- D B Martin
- Divisions of Human Biology and Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Akalin A, Elmore LW, Forsythe HL, Amaker BA, McCollum ED, Nelson PS, Ware JL, Holt SE. A novel mechanism for chaperone-mediated telomerase regulation during prostate cancer progression. Cancer Res 2001; 61:4791-6. [PMID: 11406554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Telomerase activity has been detected in >85% of all malignant human cancers, including 90% of prostate carcinomas. Using a well-characterized experimental prostate cancer system, we have found that telomerase activity is notably increased (>10-fold) during tumorigenic conversion. Expression profiles of the telomerase components (hTR and hTERT) revealed no substantive changes, which suggests a nontranscriptional mechanism for increased activity. Because the hsp90 chaperone complex functionally associates with telomerase, we investigated that relationship and found that along with telomerase activity, a number of hsp90-related chaperones are markedly elevated during transformation, as well as in advanced prostate carcinomas. Using the nontumorigenic cell protein extract as the source of telomerase, addition of purified chaperone components enhanced reconstitution of telomerase activity, which suggests a novel mechanism of increased telomerase assembly via a hsp90 chaperoning process during prostate cancer progression.
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- A Akalin
- Department of Pathology, Massey Cancer Center, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
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Identification, acquisition, and assessment of molecular markers that could be adopted as surrogate endpoints for evaluating a response to prostate cancer intervention strategies is highly desirable. Recent advances in the fields of genomics and biotechnology have dramatically increased the quantity and accessibility of molecular information that is relevant to the study of prostate carcinogenesis. One major advance involves the construction of comprehensive databases that archive gene sequences and gene expression data. This information is in a format suitable for virtual queries designed to distinguish the molecular differences between normal and cancer cells. A second major advance uses robotic tools to construct microarrays comprising thousands of distinct genes expressed in prostate tissues. Such arrays offer a powerful approach for monitoring the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously and provide access for techniques designed to assess patterns or "fingerprints" of gene expression that may ultimately be used as signatures of response to therapeutic intervention.
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- L H Grouse
- Office of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Kinoshita Y, Jarell AD, Flaman JM, Foltz G, Schuster J, Sopher BL, Irvin DK, Kanning K, Kornblum HI, Nelson PS, Hieter P, Morrison RS. Pescadillo, a novel cell cycle regulatory protein abnormally expressed in malignant cells. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:6656-65. [PMID: 11071894 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008536200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Using a culture model of glial tumorigenesis, we identified a novel gene that was up-regulated in malignant mouse astrocytes following the loss of p53. The gene represents the murine homologue of pescadillo, an uncharacterized gene that is essential for embryonic development in zebrafish. Pescadillo is a strongly conserved gene containing unique structural motifs such as a BRCA1 C-terminal domain, clusters of acidic amino acids and consensus motifs for post-translational modification by SUMO-1. Pescadillo displayed a distinct spatial and temporal pattern of gene expression during brain development, being detected in neural progenitor cells and postmitotic neurons. Although it is not expressed in differentiated astrocytes in vivo, the pescadillo protein is dramatically elevated in malignant human astrocytomas. Yeast strains harboring temperature-sensitive mutations in the pescadillo gene were arrested in either G(1) or G(2) when grown in nonpermissive conditions, demonstrating that pescadillo is an essential gene in yeast and is required for cell cycle progression. Consistent with the latter finding, DNA synthesis was only observed in mammalian cells expressing the pescadillo protein. These results suggest that pescadillo plays a crucial role in cell proliferation and may be necessary for oncogenic transformation and tumor progression.
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- Y Kinoshita
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Lin B, White JT, Ferguson C, Wang S, Vessella R, Bumgarner R, True LD, Hood L, Nelson PS. Prostate short-chain dehydrogenase reductase 1 (PSDR1): a new member of the short-chain steroid dehydrogenase/reductase family highly expressed in normal and neoplastic prostate epithelium. Cancer Res 2001; 61:1611-8. [PMID: 11245473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Genes regulated by androgenic hormones are of critical importance for the normal physiological function of the human prostate gland, and they contribute to the development and progression of prostate carcinoma. We used cDNA microarrays comprised of prostate-derived cDNAs to profile transcripts regulated by androgens in prostate cancer cells. This study identified a novel gene that we have designated prostate short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase 1 (PSDR1), that exhibits increased expression on exposure to androgens in the LNCaP prostate cancer cell line. Northern analysis demonstrated that PSDR1 is highly expressed in the prostate gland relative to other normal human tissues. The PSDR1 cDNA and putative protein exhibit homology to the family of short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase enzymes and thus identify a new member of this family. Cloning and analysis of the putative PSDR1 promoter region identified a potential androgen-response element. We used a radiation-hybrid panel to map the PSDR1 gene to chromosome 14q23-24.3. In situ hybridization localizes PSDR1 expression to normal and neoplastic prostate epithelium. These results identify a new gene involved in the androgen receptor-regulated gene network of the human prostate that may play a role in the pathogenesis of prostate carcinoma.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Androgens/physiology
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Epithelium/enzymology
- Epithelium/physiology
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/physiology
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Oxidoreductases/biosynthesis
- Oxidoreductases/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Prostate/enzymology
- Prostate/physiology
- Prostatic Neoplasms/enzymology
- Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- B Lin
- Departments of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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The molecular processes contributing to cancer of the human prostate gland are under intensive investigation. Methods used for discovering genetic alterations involved in prostate neoplasia include family studies designed to map hereditary disease loci, chromosomal studies to identify aberrations that may locate oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes, and comprehensive gene expression studies. These studies determine how various molecular signaling pathways influence or reflect the process of carcinogenesis. However, a comprehensive overview of the cell is necessary to understand all of the dynamic interactions between genes, their protein products, and the network of cellular processes resulting in tumorigenesis. Unraveling the complexity of these systems in a timely manner involves the integration of computers, miniaturization, and automation into molecular biology. New biotechnologies such as the development of automated DNA sequencing and complementary DNA microarrays allow for a systematic, "discovery-driven" approach. These and other technologies afford a comprehensive view of biology and pathology that have the potential to fully characterize the processes involved in neoplasia and therefore provide potential targets for the therapy of prostate and other cancers.
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- P E Li
- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Mailstop D4-100, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
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Diamandis EP, Yousef GM, Clements J, Ashworth LK, Yoshida S, Egelrud T, Nelson PS, Shiosaka S, Little S, Lilja H, Stenman UH, Rittenhouse HG, Wain H. New nomenclature for the human tissue kallikrein gene family. Clin Chem 2000; 46:1855-8. [PMID: 11067830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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- E P Diamandis
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada.
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Schuster JM, Nelson PS. Toll receptors: an expanding role in our understanding of human disease. J Leukoc Biol 2000; 67:767-73. [PMID: 10857847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Toll receptor proteins in Drosophila are involved in establishing the dorsal-ventral axis in embryogenesis as well as participating in the innate immune response to invading pathogens. The basic mediators of this response show striking similarities in plants, insects, and vertebrates. The cytoplasmic signaling cascade is exemplified by the human interleukin-1 receptor complex (IL-1R), resulting in transcriptional activation of effector proteins through nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB). Six mammalian/human Toll-like receptors (TLR) have been described to date. The TLRs share the IL-1R cytoplasmic signaling cascade but are distinguished by their extracellular leucine-rich repeat (LRR) structure. The LRR superfamily comprises a diverse group of proteins, including a cohort involved in transmembrane signaling. Two of the human TLRs (TLR2, TLR4) have been shown to be involved in the innate response to bacterial pathogens and appear to provide a link between the innate and adaptive immune response. A better understanding of this response may provide improved therapeutic modalities in the treatment of bacterial and fungal sepsis, which continues to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In addition, similar to Drosophila, Toll receptors and related proteins in the LRR superfamily may also be involved in human development, as well as in noninfectious human disease.
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- J M Schuster
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Nelson PS, Han D, Rochon Y, Corthals GL, Lin B, Monson A, Nguyen V, Franza BR, Plymate SR, Aebersold R, Hood L. Comprehensive analyses of prostate gene expression: convergence of expressed sequence tag databases, transcript profiling and proteomics. Electrophoresis 2000; 21:1823-31. [PMID: 10870968 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(20000501)21:9<1823::aid-elps1823>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Several methods have been developed for the comprehensive analysis of gene expression in complex biological systems. Generally these procedures assess either a portion of the cellular transcriptome or a portion of the cellular proteome. Each approach has distinct conceptual and methodological advantages and disadvantages. We have investigated the application of both methods to characterize the gene expression pathway mediated by androgens and the androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells. This pathway is of critical importance for the development and progression of prostate cancer. Of clinical importance, modulation of androgens remains the mainstay of treatment for patients with advanced disease. To facilitate global gene expression studies we have first sought to define the prostate transcriptome by assembling and annotating prostate-derived expressed sequence tags (ESTs). A total of 55000 prostate ESTs were assembled into a set of 15953 clusters putatively representing 15953 distinct transcripts. These clusters were used to construct cDNA microarrays suitable for examining the androgen-response pathway at the level of transcription. The expression of 20 genes was found to be induced by androgens. This cohort included known androgen-regulated genes such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and several novel complementary DNAs (cDNAs). Protein expression profiles of androgen-stimulated prostate cancer cells were generated by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE). Mass spectrometric analysis of androgen-regulated proteins in these cells identified the metastasis-suppressor gene NDKA/nm23, a finding that may explain a marked reduction in metastatic potential when these cells express a functional androgen receptor pathway.
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- P S Nelson
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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Lin B, White JT, Ferguson C, Bumgarner R, Friedman C, Trask B, Ellis W, Lange P, Hood L, Nelson PS. PART-1: a novel human prostate-specific, androgen-regulated gene that maps to chromosome 5q12. Cancer Res 2000; 60:858-63. [PMID: 10706094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Genes regulated by androgenic hormones are of critical importance for the normal physiological function of the human prostate gland, and they contribute to the development and progression of prostate carcinoma. We used cDNA microarrays containing 1500 prostate-derived cDNAs to profile transcripts regulated by androgens in prostate cancer cells. This study identified a novel gene that we have designated PART-1 (prostate androgen-regulated transcript 1), which exhibited increased expression upon exposure to androgens in the LNCaP prostate cancer cell line. Northern analysis demonstrated that PART-1 is highly expressed in the prostate gland relative to other normal human tissues and is expressed as different transcripts using at least three different polyadenylation signals. The PART-1 cDNA and putative protein are not significantly homologous to any sequences in the nonredundant public sequence databases. Cloning and analysis of the putative PART-1 promoter region identified a potential binding site for the homeobox gene PBX-la, but no consensus androgen response element or sterol-regulatory element binding sites were identified. We used a radiation hybrid panel and fluorescence in situ hybridization to map the PART-1 gene to chromosome 5q12, a region that has been suggested to harbor a prostate tumor suppressor gene. These results identify a new gene involved in the androgen receptor-regulated gene network of the human prostate that may play a role in the etiology of prostate carcinogenesis.
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- B Lin
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Nelson PS, Clegg N, Eroglu B, Hawkins V, Bumgarner R, Smith T, Hood L. The prostate expression database (PEDB): status and enhancements in 2000. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:212-3. [PMID: 10592228 PMCID: PMC102457 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.1.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/1999] [Accepted: 10/07/1999] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The Prostate Expression Database (PEDB) is an online resource designed to access and analyze gene expression information derived from the human prostate. PEDB archives >55 000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from 43 cDNA libraries in a curated relational database that provides detailed library information including tissue source, library construction methods, sequence diversity and sequence abundance. The differential expression of each EST species can be viewed across all libraries using a Virtual Expression Analysis Tool (VEAT), a graphical user interface written in Java for intra- and inter-library species comparisons. Recent enhancements to PEDB include: (i) the functional categorization of annotated EST assemblies using a classification scheme developed at The Institute for Genome Research; (ii) catalogs of expressed genes in specific prostate tissue sources designated as transcriptomes; and (iii) the addition of prostate proteome information derived from two-dimensional electrophoreses and mass spectrometry of prostate cancer cell lines. PEDB may be accessed via the WWW at http://www.mbt.washington.edu/PEDB/
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- P S Nelson
- Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
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Nelson PS, Hawkins V, Schummer M, Bumgarner R, Ng WL, Ideker T, Ferguson C, Hood L. Negative selection: a method for obtaining low-abundance cDNAs using high-density cDNA clone arrays. Genet Anal 1999; 15:209-15. [PMID: 10609756 DOI: 10.1016/s1050-3862(99)00006-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The identification of the entire complement of genes expressed in a cell, tissue, or organism provides a framework for understanding biological properties and establishes a tool set for subsequent functional studies. The large-scale sequencing of randomly selected clones from cDNA libraries has been successfully employed as a method for identifying a large fraction of these expressed genes. However, this approach is limited by the inherent redundancy of cellular transcripts reflecting widely variant levels of gene transcription. As a result, a high percentage of transcript duplications are encountered as the number of sequenced clones accrues. To address this problem, we have developed a negative hybridization selection method that employs the hybridization of complex cDNA probes to high-density arrays of cDNA clones and the subsequent selection of clones with a null or low hybridization signal. This approach was applied to a cDNA library constructed from normal human prostate tissue and resulted in the reduction of highly expressed prostate cDNAs from 6.8 to 0.57% with an overall decline in clone redundancy from 33 to 11%. The selected clones also reflected a more diverse cDNA population, with 89% of the clones representing distinctly different cDNAs compared with 67% of the randomly selected clones. This method compares favorably with cDNA library re-association normalization approaches and offers several distinct advantages, including the flexibility to use previously prepared libraries, and the ability to employ an iterative screening approach for continued accrual of cDNAs representing rare transcripts.
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- P S Nelson
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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Schummer M, Ng WV, Bumgarner RE, Nelson PS, Schummer B, Bednarski DW, Hassell L, Baldwin RL, Karlan BY, Hood L. Comparative hybridization of an array of 21,500 ovarian cDNAs for the discovery of genes overexpressed in ovarian carcinomas. Gene 1999; 238:375-85. [PMID: 10570965 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00342-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Comparative hybridization of cDNA arrays is a powerful tool for the measurement of differences in gene expression between two or more tissues. We optimized this technique and employed it to discover genes with potential for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. This cancer is rarely identified in time for a good prognosis after diagnosis. An array of 21,500 unknown ovarian cDNAs was hybridized with labeled first-strand cDNA from 10 ovarian tumors and six normal tissues. One hundred and thirty-four clones are overexpressed in at least five of the 10 tumors. These cDNAs were sequenced and compared to public sequence databases. One of these, the gene HE4, was found to be expressed primarily in some ovarian cancers, and is thus a potential marker of ovarian carcinoma.
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- M Schummer
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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Lin B, Ferguson C, White JT, Wang S, Vessella R, True LD, Hood L, Nelson PS. Prostate-localized and androgen-regulated expression of the membrane-bound serine protease TMPRSS2. Cancer Res 1999; 59:4180-4. [PMID: 10485450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Genes regulated by androgenic hormones are of critical importance for the normal physiological function of the human prostate gland, and they contribute to the development and progression of prostate carcinoma. We used cDNA microarrays containing 1500 cDNAs to profile transcripts regulated by androgens in prostate cancer cells and identified the serine protease TMPRSS2 as a gene exhibiting increased expression upon exposure to androgens. The TMPRSS2 gene is located on chromosome 21 and contains four distinct domains, including a transmembrane region, indicating that it is expressed on the cell surface. Northern analysis demonstrated that TMPRSS2 is highly expressed in prostate epithelium relative to other normal human tissues. In situ hybridization of normal and malignant prostate tissues localizes TMMPRSS2 expression to prostate basal cells and to prostate carcinoma. These results suggest that TMPRSS2 may play a role in prostate carcinogenesis and should be investigated as a diagnostic or therapeutic target for the management of prostate cancers.
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- B Lin
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Smith TH, LaTour JV, Bochkariov D, Chaga G, Nelson PS. Bifunctional phosphoramidite reagents for the introduction of histidyl and dihistidyl residues into oligonucleotides. Bioconjug Chem 1999; 10:647-52. [PMID: 10411463 DOI: 10.1021/bc990002c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The synthesis and characterization of reagents for the incorporation of histidyl residues into oligonucleotides by automated chemical synthesis is described. Automated oligonucleotide synthesis utilizing a bifunctional reagent for the incorporation of a dihistidyl residue into oligonucleotides is described. Oligonucleotides incorporating one to three dihistidyl residues were prepared and characterized. The interaction of these oligonucleotides with a metal chelating IMAC matrix was explored.
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- T H Smith
- Nucleic Acids Chemistry Division, CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc., 1020 East Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, California 94303, USA.
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Wang K, Gan L, Jeffery E, Gayle M, Gown AM, Skelly M, Nelson PS, Ng WV, Schummer M, Hood L, Mulligan J. Monitoring gene expression profile changes in ovarian carcinomas using cDNA microarray. Gene 1999; 229:101-8. [PMID: 10095109 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00035-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The development of cancer is the result of a series of molecular changes occurring in the cell. These events lead to changes in the expression level of numerous genes that result in different phenotypic characteristics of tumors. In this report we describe the assembly and utilization of a 5766 member cDNA microarray to study the differences in gene expression between normal and neoplastic human ovarian tissues. Several genes that may have biological relevance in the process of ovarian carcinogenesis have been identified through this approach. Analyzing the results of microarray hybridizations may provides new leads for tumor diagnosis and intervention.
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- K Wang
- Chiroscience R&D, Inc., 1631 220th SE., Bothell, WA 98021, USA.
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Nelson PS, Gan L, Ferguson C, Moss P, Gelinas R, Hood L, Wang K. Molecular cloning and characterization of prostase, an androgen-regulated serine protease with prostate-restricted expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:3114-9. [PMID: 10077646 PMCID: PMC15904 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.6.3114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The identification of genes with selective expression in specific organs or cell types provides an entry point for understanding biological processes that occur uniquely within a particular tissue. Using a subtraction approach designed to identify genes preferentially expressed in specific tissues, we have identified prostase, a human serine protease with prostate-restricted expression. The prostase cDNA encodes a putative 254-aa polypeptide with a conserved serine protease catalytic triad and an amino-terminal pre-propeptide sequence, indicating a potential secretory function. The genomic sequence comprises five exons and four introns and contains multiple copies of a chromosome 19q-specific minisatellite repeat. Northern analysis indicates that prostase mRNA is expressed in hormonally responsive normal and neoplastic prostate epithelial tissues, but not in prostate stromal constituents. Prostase shares 35% amino acid identity with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and 78% identity with the porcine enamel matrix serine proteinase 1, an enzyme involved in enamel matrix degradation and with a putative role in the disruption of intercellular junctions. Radiation-hybrid-panel mapping localized prostase to chromosome 19q13, a region containing several other serine proteases, including protease M, pancreatic/renal kallikrein hK1, and the prostate-specific kallikreins hK2 and hK3 (PSA). The sequence homology between prostase and other well-characterized serine proteases suggests several potential functional roles for the prostase protein that include the degradation of extracellular matrix and the activation of PSA and other proteases.
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- P S Nelson
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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The Prostate Expression Database (PEDB) is a curated relational database and suite of analysis tools designed for the study of prostate gene expression in normal and disease states. Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and full-length cDNA sequences derived from more than 40 human prostate cDNA libraries are maintained and represent a wide spectrum of normal and pathological conditions. Detailed library information including tissue source, library construction methods, sequence diversity and abundance are available in a library archive. Prostate ESTs are assembled into distinct species groups using the multiple alignment program CAP2 and are annotated with information from the GenBank, dbEST and Unigene public sequence databases. Annotated sequences in PEDB are searched using the BLAST algorithm. The differential expression of each EST species can be viewed across all libraries using a Virtual Expression Analysis Tool (VEAT), a graphical user interface written in Java for intra- and inter-library species comparisons. PEDB may be accessed via the World Wide Web at http://www.mbt.washington.edu/PEDB/
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- V Hawkins
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Chaudhary PM, Ferguson C, Nguyen V, Nguyen O, Massa HF, Eby M, Jasmin A, Trask BJ, Hood L, Nelson PS. Cloning and characterization of two Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor-like genes TIL3 and TIL4: evidence for a multi-gene receptor family in humans. Blood 1998; 91:4020-7. [PMID: 9596645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Remarkable structural and functional similarities exist between the Drosophila Toll/Cactus/Dorsal signaling pathway and the mammalian cytokine-mediated interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R)/I-kappaB/NF-kappaB activation cascade. In addition to a role regulating dorsal-ventral polarity in the developing Drosophila embryo, signaling through Drosophila Toll (dToll) activates the nonclonal, or innate, immune response in the adult fly. Recent evidence indicates that a human homologue of the dToll protein participates in the regulation of both innate and adaptive human immunity through the activation of NF-kappaB and the expression of the NF-kappaB-controlled genes IL-1, IL-6, and IL-8, thus affirming the evolutionary conservation of this host defense pathway. We report here the cloning of two novel human genes, TIL3 and TIL4 (Toll/IL-1R-like-3, -4) that exhibit homology to both the leucine-rich repeat extracellular domains and the IL-1R-like intracellular domains of human and Drosophila Toll. Northern analysis showed distinctly different tissue distribution patterns with TIL3 expressed predominantly in ovary, peripheral blood leukocytes, and prostate, and TIL4 expressed primarily in peripheral blood leukocytes and spleen. Chromosomal mapping by fluorescence in situ hybridization localized the TIL3 gene to chromosome 1q41-42 and TIL4 to chromosome 4q31.3-32. Functional studies showed that both TIL3 and TIL4 are able to activate NF-kappaB, though in a cell type-dependent fashion. Together with human Toll, TIL3 and TIL4 encode a family of genes with conserved structural and functional features involved in immune modulation.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/chemistry
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Cloning, Molecular
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/chemistry
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- NF-kappa B/metabolism
- Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/chemistry
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/chemistry
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Toll-Like Receptors
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- P M Chaudhary
- Department of Medicine and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Nelson PS, Plymate SR, Wang K, True LD, Ware JL, Gan L, Liu AY, Hood L. Hevin, an antiadhesive extracellular matrix protein, is down-regulated in metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma. Cancer Res 1998; 58:232-6. [PMID: 9443398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Hevin, a gene closely related to the extracellular matrix protein SPARC, is an acidic cysteine-rich glycoprotein shown to be important for the adhesion and trafficking of cells through the endothelium. Through the use of differential display and differential EST analysis, we identified Hevin as a gene whose transcription is down-regulated in transformed prostate epithelial cell lines and metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma. These results were confirmed by comparing expression levels between normal and neoplastic human prostate tissues using Northern analysis. In situ hybridization with an 35S-labeled antisense riboprobe demonstrated the loss of Hevin expression in metastatic prostate carcinoma. The expression pattern of Hevin in transformed and metastatic epithelium may provide further insights into the complex cell adhesion events involved in the metastatic progression of prostate carcinoma.
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- P S Nelson
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Nelson PS, Ng WL, Schummer M, True LD, Liu AY, Bumgarner RE, Ferguson C, Dimak A, Hood L. An expressed-sequence-tag database of the human prostate: sequence analysis of 1168 cDNA clones. Genomics 1998; 47:12-25. [PMID: 9465292 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.5035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The human prostate is a complex glandular organ with functional development under hormonal regulation. Diseases of the prostate result in significant morbidity and mortality in the form of benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostate adenocarcinoma. The characterization of the molecular framework of the human prostate at the level of expressed genes will facilitate the understanding of normal and pathological prostate biology. The purposes of this study were to acquire an initial assessment of the qualitative and quantitative diversity of gene expression in the normal human prostate and to determine the extent that genes with prostate-restricted expression can be assessed using an expressed sequence tag approach. We have constructed a directional cDNA library from normal adult human prostate tissue and partially sequenced the 5' end of 1168 randomly selected cDNA clones, resulting in more than 400 kb of DNA sequence. Homology searches of the sequenced cDNAs against the GenBank and dbEST databases revealed that 43% of the sequences are identical to human genes whose functions are known, 5% are similar but not identical to known genes in humans or lower organisms, 5% match the mitochondrial genome, 9% are composed of interspersed DNA repeats, 30% are homologous to sequences in the dbEST database without a described function, and 6% are novel sequences. A total of 780 distinct species were identified. In addition to the 74 novel transcripts, 4 genes, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), prostate secretory protein (PSP), prostate acid phosphatase (PAP), and human glandular kallekrein 2 (HK2), have no homologous sequences in the databases that originate from sources other than prostate and thus may represent genes with prostate-restricted expression. Sequences matching PSA, PSP, and PAP each accounted for > 1% of the total ESTs and represent highly abundant transcripts, correlating with the abundance of these proteins in the prostate gland. No novel transcripts were represented by more than one EST and thus are expressed at levels much lower than the known prostate-specific genes.
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- P S Nelson
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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Schummer M, Ng W, Nelson PS, Bumgarner RE, Hood L. Inexpensive handheld device for the construction of high-density nucleic acid arrays. Biotechniques 1997; 23:1087-92. [PMID: 9421641 DOI: 10.2144/97236st06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We report an easy-to-use, 384-pin handheld arraying and replicating device (ARD) for constructing high-density replicas of nucleic acids and E. coli transformants. We have modified an existing 384-pin tool to include a novel guide system to ensure vertical pin movement and enhance reproducibility. An asymmetric rectangular multiplexing frame is designed to increase the array density to 1536 dots on a standard microplate-size nylon membrane and to reduce the time and effort involved in producing array replicas. Our initial studies used the ARD to construct 1536-dot arrays of ovarian cDNA clones. We have hybridized these arrays with 32P-labeled probes, which resulted in distinctive signals for either visual interpretation or semiautomatic spot detection and signal integration.
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- M Schummer
- Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Liu AY, True LD, LaTray L, Nelson PS, Ellis WJ, Vessella RL, Lange PH, Hood L, van den Engh G. Cell-cell interaction in prostate gene regulation and cytodifferentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:10705-10. [PMID: 9380699 PMCID: PMC23453 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.20.10705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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To examine the role of intercellular interaction on cell differentiation and gene expression in human prostate, we separated the two major epithelial cell populations and studied them in isolation and in combination with stromal cells. The epithelial cells were separated by flow cytometry using antibodies against differentially expressed cell-surface markers CD44 and CD57. Basal epithelial cells express CD44, and luminal epithelial cells express CD57. The CD57+ luminal cells are the terminally differentiated secretory cells of the gland that synthesize prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Expression of PSA is regulated by androgen, and PSA mRNA is one of the abundant messages in these cells. We show that PSA expression by the CD57+ cells is abolished after prostate tissue is dispersed by collagenase into single cells. Expression is restored when CD57+ cells are reconstituted with stromal cells. The CD44+ basal cells possess characteristics of stem cells and are the candidate progenitors of luminal cells. Differentiation, as reflected by PSA production, can be detected when CD44+ cells are cocultured with stromal cells. Our studies show that cell-cell interaction plays an important role in prostatic cytodifferentiation and the maintenance of the differentiated state.
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- A Y Liu
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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We have developed a universal solid support, termed Rainbow Universal CPG, for use in automated oligonucleotide synthesis. The universal solid support allows any oligodeoxyribonucleotide sequence to be synthesized from a single type of controlled pore glass (CPG) support. Deprotection of oligodeoxyribonucleotides was optimized using 0.5 M LiCl in concentrated ammonium hydroxide. PCR experiments using three different sets of primers proved that the 3'-hydroxyl function of oligodeoxyribonucleotides synthesized from Rainbow Universal CPG was retained. This universal solid support shows promise for replacing the standard nucleoside CPG supports.
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- P S Nelson
- CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Liu AY, Corey E, Vessella RL, Lange PH, True LD, Huang GM, Nelson PS, Hood L. Identification of differentially expressed prostate genes: increased expression of transcription factor ETS-2 in prostate cancer. Prostate 1997; 30:145-53. [PMID: 9122038 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0045(19970215)30:3<145::aid-pros1>3.0.co;2-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the genetic events in the malignant transformation of prostatic cells. This is due in large measure to the cellular heterogeneity of the prostate. METHODS An amplification method was devised to synthesize cDNA from small samples of cancer and benign tissues of the same resected glands. Differential gene expression of candidate informative markers between cancer and benign was screened by the polymerase chain reaction with gene-specific oligonucleotide primers. RESULTS The expression of a transcription factor, ETS-2, was shown to be elevated in some cancer specimens. Elevated expression was also noted for neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and another transcription factor, SEF2. CONCLUSIONS Our method can be used to identify quickly genes that are differentially expressed between benign and cancerous prostate cells. Transcription factors, such as ETS-2, may play a significant role in cancer progression.
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- A Y Liu
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the potential application of chemoprevention strategies in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia. METHODS Review of relevant literature on chemoprevention with emphasis on prostate cancer and premalignant lesions. RESULTS Chemoprevention represents a strategy designed to inhibit or reverse the process of carcinogenesis by administering one or several noncytotoxic chemical compounds. The epidemiology of prostate carcinoma indicates that this cancer is a prime candidate for a strategy aimed at prevention due to the extremely high prevalence rate, rising annual incidence, and long latent interval between the cancer-initiating events and the development of invasive disease. Chemopreventive agents may exert their inhibitory effects at different stages of the multistep carcinogenic process broadly categorized as initiation, promotion, and progression. The synthetic retinoids, polyamine synthesis inhibitors, and antiandrogens are among the compounds shown to have in vitro or in vivo chemopreventive effects in prostate carcinogenesis. A major limitation in the evaluation of such agents in a human prostate cancer is the long duration of clinical trials required to assess the efficacy with an endpoint of cancer development. Premalignant epithelial changes such as prostate intraepithelial neoplasia, or PIN, are highly associated with prostate cancer, and share many molecular features of invasive cancer. If the reversal or inhibition of intraepithelial neoplasia translates to a concomitant reduction in clinically relevant prostate cancer, then the pharmacological modulation of PIN may provide a rapid means to evaluate the effects and benefits of potential chemopreventive agents. CONCLUSION Men with PIN may represent ideal candidates for chemoprevention protocols. The ideal agent and duration of therapy remains to be defined.
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- P S Nelson
- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle 98108, USA
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Nelson PS, Papas TS, Schweinfest CW. Restriction endonuclease cleavage of 5-methyl-deoxycytosine hemimethylated DNA at high enzyme-to-substrate ratios. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:681-6. [PMID: 8441677 PMCID: PMC309169 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.3.681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We have investigated the ability of a large number of restriction enzymes to digest non-canonically hemimethylated DNA at high enzyme-to-substrate ratios. A single-stranded unmethylated phagemid was used as a template to complete synthesis of the second strand using 5-methyl-dCTP to substitute for all the deoxycytosine residues. A fragment of this double-stranded hemimethylated DNA which contains the multiple cloning site region was used as a substrate. For all the enzymes tested, at least some degree of protection from digestion is observed. Sites completely protected from digestion by their cognate enzymes are SalI, BstXI, SacI, SacII, SmaI, SstI, XhoI, PstI, HinfI, BamHI and AccI. Sites partially protected from digestion by their cognate enzymes are XbaI, HindIII, KpnI, SpeI, ClaI, EcoRI and PvuII. Knowledge of the sensitivity of commonly used restriction enzymes to hemimethylated substrates is useful for several applications, which will be discussed.
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- P S Nelson
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201
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Nelson PS, Kent M, Muthini S. Oligonucleotide labeling methods. 3. Direct labeling of oligonucleotides employing a novel, non-nucleosidic, 2-aminobutyl-1,3-propanediol backbone. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:6253-9. [PMID: 1475185 PMCID: PMC334513 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.23.6253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Novel CE-phosphoramidite (7a-e) and CPG (8a, c, d, e) reagents have been prepared from a unique 2-aminobutyl-1,3-propanediol backbone. The reagents have been used to directly label oligonucleotides with fluorescein, acridine, and biotin via automated DNA synthesis. The versatile 2-aminobutyl-1,3-propanediol backbone allows for labeling at any position (5', internal, and 3') during solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis. Multiple labels can be achieved by repetitive coupling cycles. Furthermore, the 3-carbon atom internucleotide phosphate distance is retained when inserted internally. Using this method, individual oligonucleotides possessing two and three different reporter molecules have been prepared.
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- P S Nelson
- Nucleic Acids Chemistry Division, Clontech Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, CA 94303
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Nelson PS, Sherman-Gold R, Leon R. A new and versatile reagent for incorporating multiple primary aliphatic amines into synthetic oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:7179-86. [PMID: 2798089 PMCID: PMC334797 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.18.7179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A novel and versatile phosphoramidite, N-Fmoc-O1-DMT-O2-cyanoethoxydiisopropylamino-phosphinyl-3-am ino-1,2-propanediol (1, Fig. 1), has been synthesized and used to incorporate primary aliphatic amines into synthetic oligonucleotides. Its convenient preparation and use in solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis is described. Using phosphoramidite 1, an amino-modified oligonucleotide probe complementary to M13mp18 DNA was constructed with five primary amines attached to the 5'-terminus. The amino-modified oligonucleotide was subsequently labeled with biotin and employed in a dot-blot hybridization assay. As little as 0.5 ng of M13mp18 target DNA was colorimetrically detected.
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- P S Nelson
- Organic Chemistry Division, Clontech Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, CA 94303
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