Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 26, Issue 45, Pages 6560-6565Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210472
Keywords
cancer; epigenetics; prostate; WNT5A; S100P; CRIP1
Funding
- Medical Research Council [G0100116] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [G0100116] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0100116] Funding Source: researchfish
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Oligoarray analysis of a matched pair of prostate cancer and normal cell lines derived from the same radical prostatectomy specimen identified 113 candidate hypo-methylated genes that were overexpressed in the cancer cells and contained CpG islands. Hypomethylation of wingless-related MMTV integration site 5A (WNT5A), S100 calcium-binding protein P (S100P) and cysteine-rich protein 1(CRIP1) was confirmed in the cancer cells by bisulfate sequencing. Treatment of the corresponding normal prostate epithelial cells 1542-NPTX with the DNA methyltransferase inhibitor 5-Aza-2 '-deoxycytidine (5-aza-CdR) induced higher levels of mRNA expression and partial loss of methylation on these genes. Primary prostate cancers were tested using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction. WNT5A was hypomethylated in 11/17 (65%) tumors, S100P in 8/16 (50%) and CRIP1 in 13/20 ( 65%). Bisulfate sequencing of a section of the 50 untranslated region (UTR) of WNT5A revealed that three CpG sites ( 15, 24 and 35) were consistently methylated (93%) in the normal cell line and normal tissues, but not in the prostate cancer cell line and eight primary prostate cancers. Multiple putative binding sites for the transcription factors SP1 and AP-2 were found adjacent to CpG sites 15 and 24. A putative c-Myb binding site was located within the CpG site 35. Anti-c-Myb antibody co-precipitation with WNT5A was methylation- sensitive in 1542-NPTX cells. It is likely that an epigenetic mechanism regulates WNT5A expression in prostate cancer.
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