Enhanced expression of vimentin in motile prostate cell lines and in poorly differentiated and metastatic prostate carcinoma.
Lang, Shona H Hyde, Catherine Reid, Ian N Hitchcock, Ian S Hart, Claire A Bryden, A A G Villette, Jean-Marie Stower, Michael J Maitland, Norman J
Lang, Shona H
Hyde, Catherine
Reid, Ian N
Hitchcock, Ian S
Hart, Claire A
Bryden, A A G
Villette, Jean-Marie
Stower, Michael J
Maitland, Norman J
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The metastatic potential of a series of prostate cell lines was analysed by measuring motility and invasiveness, and further correlated to the expression of epithelial differentiation markers. METHODS: Invasion and motility were measured using in vitro assays. Immunohistochemistry of cell lines and tissues was used to identify expression of cytokeratins 8 and 1, 5, 10, 14, vimentin, prostate specific antigen, prostate specific membrane antigen, androgen receptor, desmoglein, E-cadherin, beta1 integrin, CD44, hmet, vinculin and actin. RESULTS: Expression of vimentin was the only marker to correlate with motility, no markers correlated to invasion. Lower vimentin expression was observed in cells with low motility (PNT2-C2) and high expression in cells with high motility (P4E6, PNT1a, PC-3). Vimentin expression was not detected in well differentiated tumours, moderately differentiated tumours contained vimentin positive cells (1/9 bone scan negative, 2/5 bone scan positive), but the majority of poorly differentiated cancers (4/11 bone scan negative, 9/14 bone scan positive) and bone metastases (7/8) had high vimentin expression in tumour cells. CONCLUSIONS: Motile prostate cancer cell lines express vimentin. In tissue sections, the presence of vimentin positive tumour cells correlated positively to poorly differentiated cancers and the presence of bone metastases.
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2002-09-01
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Bone Cancer
Prostatic Cancer
Cultured Tumour Cells
Biological Tumour Markers
Prostatic Cancer
Cultured Tumour Cells
Biological Tumour Markers
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Article
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Enhanced expression of vimentin in motile prostate cell lines and in poorly differentiated and metastatic prostate carcinoma. 2002, 52 (4):253-63 Prostate