Project description:Prostate cancer is the leading type of cancer diagnosed and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide each year in men. The limitations of the current prostate cancer screening test demands new biomarkers for early diagnosis of prostate cancer metastasis to bone. In this study, we performed a deep proteomic analysis of secreted proteins from the prostate cancer bone metastasis cell line, PC-3, and normal prostate cell line, RWPE-1. Here, we quantified 917 proteins and found 68 highly secreted in PC-3 versus RWPE-1 cells using LC-MS/MS. To characterize the highly secreted proteins in the PC-3 cell line to identify biomarker proteins, the quantifiable proteins were divided into four quantitative categories (Q1-Q4). The KEGG pathways of lysine degradation and osteoclast differentiation were enriched in Q4, the highly secreted group. Transforming growth factor (TGF) beta family proteins related to osteoclast differentiation were identified as key regulators in PC-3 cells. Among the 68 highly secreted proteins, pentraxin, follistatin, and TGF-beta family members were confirmed by immunoblots. In particular, serpin B3, modulated by TGF-beta, was detected and its selective expression and secretion in PC-3 cells was confirmed. In the present study, we suggest that serpin B3 is a novel biomarker candidate for diagnosis of prostate cancer metastasis to the bone.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cancer in American men. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for prostate cancer in the United States for 2017 are estimated 161.360 new cases and 26,730 deaths from PCa. To study metastatic properties to bone, PC-3 cell line is mainly used classical human prostatic carcinoma cell line, established and characterized its tumorigenicity from a human prostatic adenocarcinoma metastatic to bone is reported. In addition, PC-3/nkR cell line, natural killer(NK) cells-resistant, was isolated from mammary tumor xenograft studies in mice from PC-3 was implanted to nude mice and fecund to be tumorigenic in the early 2000s. In this study, we investigated secreted proteins of the conditioned media of PC-3 and PC-3/nkR cell lines using comparative proteomics technology to identify the molecular mechanism related to metastatic processes related to PC-3/nkR. Our study showed PC-3/nkR cells are new highly migrated and NK cells-resistant cell-line compared to PC-3 cells, as novel highly malignant tumor cells to study mechanisms of PCa metastatic.
