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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
We investigated the role of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling in the growth and metastasis of PC-3MM2 human prostate cancer cells. Highly metastatic PC-3MM2 human prostate cancer cells were engineered to constitutively overexpress a dominant-negative type II TGF-beta receptor (DNR). Transfection of DNR had minimal direct effects on cell growth and attenuated TGF-beta-induced cell growth inhibition and TGF-beta1 production. There were no discernable differences in tumorigenicity (tumor incidence) among PC-3MM2 variants when the cells were implanted into the prostates of nude mice. Growth rate and metastatic incidence of DNR-engineered PC-3MM2 cells, however, were significantly reduced. Most cells in the control tumors were positively stained by an antibody to proliferation cell nuclear antigen and very few cells were stained by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated nick-end labeling (TUNEL). In sharp contrast, tumors formed by PC-3MM2-DNR cells contained fewer proliferation cell nuclear antigen-positive cells and many more TUNEL-positive cells. Staining with antibody against CD31 showed that control tumors contained more blood vessels than PC-3MM2-DNR tumors. Expression of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in tumors formed by PC-3MM2 cells was significantly reduced as revealed by both Northern blotting and ELISA. Finally, transfection of antisense IL-8 cDNA significantly reduced IL-8 production by PC-3MM2 cells and antisense IL-8-transfected PC-3MM2 cells grew slower in comparison with parental and control vector-transfected cells. Taken together, our data suggest that TGF-beta signaling, by regulating IL-8 expression in tumor cells and hence tumor angiogenesis, is critical for progressive growth of PC-3MM2 cells in the prostate of nude mice.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Androgens, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antigens, CD31, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Interleukin-8, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Transforming Growth..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TGFB1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tgfb1 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transforming Growth Factor beta, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transforming Growth Factor beta1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/transforming growth factor-beta...
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1078-0432
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4512-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Androgens, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Antigens, CD31, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Disease Progression, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Interleukin-8, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Prostatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Transforming Growth Factor beta, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Transforming Growth Factor beta1, pubmed-meshheading:15958637-Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Blockade of transforming growth factor-beta signaling suppresses progression of androgen-independent human prostate cancer in nude mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural