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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 278, 期 20, 页码 18506-18513出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M300968200
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Sonic hedgehog (Shh), a vertebrate homologue of the Drosophila segment-polarity gene hedgehog, has been reported to play an important role during normal development of various tissues. Abnormal activities of Shh signaling pathway have been implicated in tumorigenesis such as basal cell carcinomas and medulloblastomas. Here we show that Shh signaling negatively regulates prostatic epithelial ductal morphogenesis. In organo-typic cultures of developing rat prostates, Shh inhibited cell proliferation and promoted differentiation of luminal epithelial cells. The expression pattern of Shh and its receptors suggests a paracrine mechanism of action. The Shh receptors Ptc1 ((P) under bara (t) under bar ched (1) under bar) and Ptc2 were found to be expressed in prostatic stromal cells adjacent to the epithelium, where Shh itself was produced. This paracrine model was confirmed by co-culturing the developing prostate in the presence of stromal cells transfected with a vector expressing a constitutively active form of Smoothened, the real effector of the Shh signaling pathway. Furthermore, expression of activin A and TGF-beta1 that were shown previously to inhibit prostatic epithelial branching was up-regulated following Shh treatment in the organotypic cultures. Taken together, these results suggest that Shh negatively regulates prostatic ductal branching indirectly by acting on the surrounding stromal cells, at least partly via up-regulating expression of activin A and TGF-beta1.
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