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Extracellular redox state regulates features associated with prostate cancer cell invasion
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Extracellular redox state regulates features associated with prostate cancer cell invasion

Luksana Chaiswing, Weixiong Zhong, Joseph J Cullen, Larry W Oberley and Terry D Oberley
Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), Vol.68(14), pp.5820-5826
07/15/2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0162
PMID: 18632636
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Abstract

We have examined the possible role of extracellular reduction-oxidation (redox) state in regulation of biological/biochemical features associated with prostate cancer cell invasion. DU145, PC-3, and RWPE1-derived human prostate cancer (WPE1-NB26) cell lines were used for the present in vitro analysis. Increasing levels of nitric oxide using S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine resulted in a decrease in cell invasion ability, whereas increasing levels of extracellular superoxide radical (O(2)(*-)) using xanthine/xanthine oxidase resulted in an increase in cell invasion ability in these three cell lines. WPE1-NB26 cells exhibited an increased glutathione/glutathione disulfide ratio in the medium in comparison with RWPE1 cells (immortalized but nonmalignant prostate epithelial cells), suggesting an alteration of extracellular redox state of WPE1-NB26 cells. We hypothesized that O(2)(*-) production at or near the plasma membrane or in the adjacent extracellular matrix at least partially regulated prostate cancer cell invasion. Using adenovirus-mediated extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) gene transduction to enzymatically decrease O(2)(*-) levels, we showed that in the presence of heparin, adenovirus EC-SOD gene transduction resulted in an increase in the expression of EC-SOD outside the cells with resultant inhibition of cell invasion ability. This inhibition correlated with reduced metalloproteinase [matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) 2/membrane type 1-MMP] activities and increased levels of extracellular nitrite. Our results suggest a prominent role of extracellular redox status in regulation of cell invasion, which may provide opportunities for therapeutic interventions.
Prostatic Neoplasms - pathology Models, Chemical Oxidation-Reduction Glutathione - metabolism Neoplasm Invasiveness Humans Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic NADPH Oxidases - metabolism Nitrites - metabolism Male Oxygen - metabolism Models, Biological Cell Line, Tumor Matrix Metalloproteinases - metabolism Superoxide Dismutase - metabolism

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