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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 101, Issue 10, Pages 1731-1739Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605358
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prostate cancer; interleukin-6; androgen-independent progression; androgen withdrawal; signal transduction
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BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of interleukin-6 (IL-6) overexpression in androgen-dependent prostate cancer LNCaP cells on their phenotype under an androgen-deprived condition. METHODS: We established IL-6-overexpressing LNCaP (LNCaP/IL-6) by introducing the expression vector containing IL-6 cDNA. Changes in the phenotype in LNCaP/IL-6 were compared with that in LNCaP transfected with control vector alone (LNCaP/Co). RESULTS: In vitro, the growth of LNCaP/IL-6 was significantly inferior to that of LNCaP/Co under an androgen-deprived condition. Similarly, LNCaP/IL-6 tumour in nude mice rapidly regressed after castration; however, LNCaP/Co tumour growth was transiently inhibited after castration and then continuously accelerated. After androgen withdrawal, expression levels of phosphorylated p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and Akt in LNCaP/IL-6 were markedly upregulated compared with those in LNCaP/Co; however, additional treatment with specific inhibitor of the MAPK or Akt signalling pathway significantly inhibited the growth of LNCaP/IL-6 compared with that of LNCaP/Co. Furthermore, gene microarray analyses showed that androgen deprivation resulted in differential expression of genes involved in growth, apoptotsis and tumorigenesis between LNCaP/Co and LNCaP/IL-6. CONCLUSION: Excessive secretion of IL-6 by LNCaP cells in an autocrine manner may have a suppressive function in their growth and acquisition of androgen-independent phenotype under an androgen-deprived condition. British Journal of Cancer (2009) 101, 1731-1739. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605358 www.bjcancer.com Published online 20 October 2009 (C) 2009 Cancer Research UK
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