Journal
CANCER LETTERS
Volume 438, Issue -, Pages 32-43Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2018.08.027
Keywords
Fusion gene; TMPRSS2:ERG; Prostate cancer; Bone metastasis; Osteoblastic lesions; Transcriptional regulation
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- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- Ligue nationale contre le Cancer (Comite du Pas-de-Calais)
- Institut national du cancer [INCa_4419]
- Institut Pasteur de Lille
- Conseil Regional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (FRM)
- Conseil Regional du Nord-Pas-de Calais
- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC)
- MINECO (Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship) [FJCI-2014-22946]
- ARTP (Association de Recherche sur les tumeurs de prostate)
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Prostate cancers have a strong propensity to metastasize to bone and promote osteoblastic lesions. TMPRSS2:ERG is the most frequent gene rearrangement identified in prostate cancer, but whether it is involved in prostate cancer bone metastases is largely unknown. We exploited an intratibial metastasis model to address this issue and we found that ectopic expression of the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion enhances the ability of prostate cancer cell lines to induce osteoblastic lesions by stimulating bone formation and inhibiting the osteolytic response. In line with these in vivo results, we demonstrate that the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion protein increases the expression of osteoblastic markers, including Collagen Type I Alpha 1 Chain and Alkaline Phosphatase, as well as Endothelin-1, a protein with a documented role in osteoblastic bone lesion formation. Moreover, we determined that the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion protein is bound to the regulatory regions of these genes in prostate cancer cell lines, and we report that the expression levels of these osteoblastic markers are correlated with the expression of the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion in patient metastasis samples. Taken together, our results reveal that the TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion is involved in osteoblastic lesion formation induced by prostate cancer cells.
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