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Tumoristatic effects of endostatin in prostate cancer is dependent on androgen receptor status
- Source :
- The Prostate. 69:1055-1066
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2009.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND Although anti-angiogenic therapy is a promising new line of therapy for prostate cancer, we recently reported that stable expression of endostatin arrested the progression of prostate cancer to poorly differentiated state and distant metastasis in TRAMP mice. However, the same therapy failed to provide any benefit when given either during or after the onset of metastatic switch. The present study determined the possible mechanisms behind the selective advantage of endostatin therapy in early-stage disease. METHODS Angiogenesis-related gene expression analysis was performed to identify target genes and molecular pathways involved in the therapy effects. Based on the results from in vivo studies, and recapitulation of the in vivo data in vitro using tumorigenic and non-tumorigenic human prostate cancer cells that are either androgen-sensitive or androgen-independent, analyses of possible mechanisms of the selective advantage of early treatment were performed using assays for cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and cell signaling. The identified mechanisms were further confirmed in vivo. RESULTS Results indicated that cells with high androgen receptor (AR) expression were more sensitive to endostatin treatment than androgen-independent cells with low or no AR expression. Endostatin was found to significantly downregulate the expression of growth factors, receptor tyrosine kinases, proteases, and AR both in vitro and in vivo only when the cells express high-levels of AR. Cell proliferation was not influenced by endostatin treatment but migration was significantly affected only in androgen-sensitive cells. Targeted downregulation of AR prior to endostatin treatment in androgen-sensitive cells and overexpression of AR in androgen-independent cells indicated that the effect of endostatin via AR downregulation is mediated by a non-genotropic mechanism on Ras and RhoA pathways, and independently of AR on MAPK/ERK pathway. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that systemically stable endostatin expression delays the onset of metastatic switch by acting on multiple pathways involving AR. Prostate 69:1055–1066, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Subjects :
- Male
MAPK/ERK pathway
medicine.medical_specialty
Urology
Down-Regulation
Apoptosis
Mice, Transgenic
Article
Receptor tyrosine kinase
Metastasis
Mice
Prostate cancer
Cell Line, Tumor
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Humans
Angiostatins
Neovascularization, Pathologic
biology
business.industry
Prostatic Neoplasms
Cancer
medicine.disease
Endostatins
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Androgen receptor
Endocrinology
Oncology
Receptors, Androgen
Cancer cell
Cancer research
biology.protein
Endostatin
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02704137
- Volume :
- 69
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Prostate
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d7234f99c2f83cad346f5cafe493779f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.20952