Lü Yuyu, Deng Wei, Yang Mingqing, et al. Significance of LKB1 and TGF-β1 expression in human prostate cancer tissues and cell lines. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 41(7):761-766(2016)
Lü Yuyu, Deng Wei, Yang Mingqing, et al. Significance of LKB1 and TGF-β1 expression in human prostate cancer tissues and cell lines. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 41(7):761-766(2016) DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.001008.
Significance of LKB1 and TGF-β1 expression in human prostate cancer tissues and cell lines
Objective:To observe the effect of liver kinase B1/serine-threonine kinase 11(LKB1)on the progression of prostate cancer by studying the expression of LKB1
transforming growth factor-β1(TGF-β1)in prostate cancer tissues and cells. Methods:Two cell lines(normal prostatic epithelial cell line RWPE-1
prostatic carcinoma cell lines PC-3)were detected by SP method
RT-PCR and Western blot in order to detect the expression of LKB
TGF-β1 m RNA and protein on human prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer tissues. Results :The positive rates of LKB1 and TGF- β1 were 55% and 70% in prostatic carcinoma
and 83.3% and 40%in prostatic hyperplasia. The positive rates of LKB1 were lower in prostatic carcinoma than in prostatic hyperplasia(P<0.05)
and the positive rates of TGF-β1were higher in prostatic carcinoma than in prostatic hyperplasia(P <0.05). However
LKB1 expression had a negative correlation with TGF-β1(r=-0.373
P=0.018). The relative levels of LKB1 protein and m RNA were higher in prostatic hyperplasia than in prostatic carcinoma(P<0.01). However
the relative levels of TGF-β1 protein and m RNA were higher in prostatic carcinoma than in prostatic hyperplasia. The level of LKB1 protein and m RNA were higher in prostatic epithelial cell line RWPE-1than in prostatic carcinoma cell line PC-3(P<0.01)by immunocytochemistry
Western blot and RT-PCR analysis. However
the expression of TGF-β1was higher in prostatic carcinoma cell line PC-3 than in prostatic epithelial cell line RWPE-1(P<0.05). Conclusion:The down-regulated expression of LKB1
while the excessive expression of TGF-β1 may play synergetic roles in the prostatic carcinogenensis. LKB1 gene may be a potential target for researching the molecular of prostatic cancer tumorgenesis and evolution by exploring the interactive mechanism of LKB1 and TGF-β1.