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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Taneja, Samir S
• Ha, Susan
• Swenson, Nicole K
• Torra, Inés Pineda
• Rome, Serge
• Walden, Paul D
• Huang, Hong Ying
• Shapiro, Ellen
• Garabedian, Michael J
• Logan, Susan K

Titel

ART-27, an Androgen Receptor Coactivator Regulated in Prostate Development and Cancer

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of biological chemistry, 2004-04, Vol.279 (14), p.13944-13952

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Androgen receptor trapped clone-27 (ART-27) is a newly described transcriptional coactivator that binds to the N terminus of the androgen receptor (AR). Given the vital importance of AR signaling in prostate growth and differentiation, we investigated the role of ART-27 in these processes. Immunohistochemical studies indicate that ART-27 protein is expressed in differentiated epithelial cells of adult human prostate and breast tissue. In prostate, ART-27 is abundant in AR-positive prostate luminal epithelial cells, in contrast to the stroma, where cells express AR but not ART-27. The use of a rat model of androgen depletion/reconstitution indicates that ART-27 expression is associated with the elaboration of differentiated prostate epithelial cells. Interestingly, regulated expression of ART-27 in the androgen-sensitive LNCaP prostate cancer cell line inhibits androgen-mediated cellular proliferation and enhances androgen-mediated transcription of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) gene. Consistent with a growth suppressive function, we show that ART-27 expression levels are negligible in human prostate cancer. Importantly, examination of ART-27 protein expression in early fetal prostate development demonstrates that ART-27 is detected only when the developing prostate gland has proceeded from a solid mass of undifferentiated cells to a stage in which differentiated luminal epithelial cells are evident. Thus, ART-27 is an AR cofactor shown to be subject to both cell type and developmental regulation in humans. Overall, the results suggest that decreased levels of ART-27 protein in prostate cancer tissue may occur as a result of de-differentiation, and indicate that ART-27 is likely to regulate a subset of AR-responsive genes important to prostate growth suppression and differentiation.