Abstract:
:In this study, the potential interactions between dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a survival factor, and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), an apoptotic inducer, were examined in a derivative of the hormone-sensitive prostate cancer cell line LNCAP: The LNCaP TGF-beta receptor II cells, engineered to express TGF-beta receptor II, are sensitive to both DHT and TGF-beta. Surprisingly, when the LNCaP TGF-beta receptor II cells were treated with TGF-beta in the presence of physiological levels of DHT, both cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction were significantly enhanced over TGF-beta alone. This effect temporally correlated with an increased expression of the cell cycle regulator p21 as well as the apoptotic executioner, procaspase-1, and a parallel down-regulation of the antiapoptotic protein, bcl-2. Expression of bax and caspase-3 proteins remained unchanged following treatment. Furthermore, apoptosis induction was suppressed by the caspase-1 inhibitor, z-YVAD, but not the caspase-3 inhibitor, z-DQMD, thus demonstrating the functional significance of increased procaspase-1 expression in TGF-beta-mediated apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. These results indicate that TGF-beta-mediated apoptosis can actually be enhanced by androgens through specific mechanisms involving cell cycle and apoptosis regulators and provide initial evidence on the ability of physiological levels of androgens to stimulate the intrinsic apoptotic potential of prostate cancer cells. Therefore, this study provides a molecular basis for the priming of prostate cancer cells for maximal apoptosis induction, during hormone- ablation therapy.
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Endocrinologyjournal_title
Endocrinologyauthors
Bruckheimer EM,Kyprianou Ndoi
10.1210/endo.142.6.8218subject
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2001-06-01 00:00:00pages
2419-26issue
6eissn
0013-7227issn
1945-7170journal_volume
142pub_type
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