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CANCER RESEARCH
卷 73, 期 1, 页码 86-96出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-1260
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- Prostate Action (UK)
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica Argentina (ANPCyT) [PICT 2008-134, PICT 2010-870]
- Programa de Cooperacion Franco-Argentino ECOS-Sud [A10S03]
- Fundacion Sales
- University of Buenos Aires
- Association pour la Recherche sur les Tumeurs de la Prostate (ARTP), France
Galectins, a family of glycan-binding proteins, influence tumor progression by modulating interactions between tumor, endothelial, stromal, and immune cells. Despite considerable progress in identifying the roles of individual galectins in tumor biology, an integrated portrait of the galectin network in different tumor microenvironments is still missing. We undertook this study to analyze the galectin signature of the human prostate cancer microenvironment with the overarching goal of selecting novel-molecular targets for prognostic and therapeutic purposes. In examining androgen-responsive and castration-resistant prostate cancer cells and primary tumors representing different stages of the disease, we found that galectin-1 (Gal-1) was the most abundantly expressed galectin in prostate cancer tissue and was markedly upregulated during disease progression. In contrast, all other galectins were expressed at lower levels: Gal-3, -4, -9, and -12 were downregulated during disease evolution, whereas expression of Gal-8 was unchanged. Given the prominent regulation of Gal-1 during prostate cancer progression and its predominant localization at the tumor-vascular interface, we analyzed the potential role of this endogenous lectin in prostate cancer angiogenesis. In human prostate cancer tissue arrays, Gal-1 expression correlated with the presence of blood vessels, particularly in advanced stages of the disease. Silencing Gal-1 in prostate cancer cells reduced tumor vascularization without altering expression of other angiogenesis-related genes. Collectively, our findings identify a dynamically regulated galectin-specific signature that accompanies disease evolution in prostate cancer, and they highlight a major role for Gal-1 as a tractable target for antiangiogenic therapy in advanced stages of the disease. Cancer Res; 73(1); 86-96. (C) 2012 AACR.
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