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MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH
Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 1666-1676Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201100328
Keywords
Androgen receptor; Dimethyloxalylglycine; Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha; Hypoxia; Mimosine
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- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [CMRP-D190541, -G392141, -190611]
- National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC [97-2320-B-182-023-MY3, 98-2314-B-182-042-MY3]
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Scope: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a well-known marker for diagnosing and monitoring prostate cancer. Curcumin, a yellow curry pigment, has been reported to enhance androgen receptor (AR) degradation. We examined the effects of curcumin on increasing PSA expression by hypoxia and prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, L-mimosine and dimethyloxalylglycine (DMOG), in human prostate carcinoma LNCaP cells. Methods and results: The H-3-thymidine incorporation assay revealed that either L-mimosine or DMOG treatments attenuated cell proliferation. Immunoblot and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) indicated that both L-mimosine and DMOG have an effect similar to hypoxia, which stabilized hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha) and induced PSA gene expression. The results of the immunoblot and transient gene expression assays indicated that induction of the PSA expression by hypoxia is both HIF-1 alpha- and AR-dependent. Immunoblot assays revealed that a curcumin treatment (10 mu M) decreased the protein abundance of AR but did not significantly affect the protein levels of HIF-1 alpha and vascular endothelial growth factor, which were induced by hypoxia. ELISA and transient gene expression assays indicated that curcumin blocked the activation of L-mimosine or DMOG treatment on PSA expression. Conclusions: These results indicate that curcumin blocked the enhanced effect of PSA expression by L-mimosine and DMOG that induce hypoxia condition.
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