PTTG1, A novel androgen responsive gene is required for androgen-induced prostate cancer cell growth and invasion.

Androgens (AR) play an important role in initiation and progression of prostate cancer. It has been shown that AR exert their effects mainly through the androgen-activated AR which binds to androgen response elements (AREs) in the regulatory regions of target genes to regulate the transcription of androgen-responsive genes, thus, identification of AR downstream target gene is critical to understand androgen function in prostate cancer. In this study, our results showed that androgen treatment of LNCaP cells induced PTTG1 expression, which was blocked by the androgen receptor antagonist, Casodex. Bioinformatics analysis and experiments using PTTG1 promoter deletion mutants showed that the PTTG1 promoter contains a putative androgen response element (ARE), which localizes in the -851 to -836 region of the promoter. Androgen activated androgen receptor (AR) binding to this ARE was confirmed by Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay. Furthermore, Knockdown of PTTG1 expression using short hairpin RNA significantly reduced androgen-induced LNCaP cell growth and invasion. In addition, we showed PTTG1 is highly expressed in metastasis prostate cancer tissue. These results suggest that PTTG1 is a novel downstream target gene of androgen receptor and take part in prostate cancer proliferation and metastasis. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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Zheng Zhang, Bo Jin, Yaqiong Jin, Shengquan Huang, Xiaohua Niu, Zebin Mao, Dianqi Xin. PTTG1, A novel androgen responsive gene is required for androgen-induced prostate cancer cell growth and invasion. Experimental cell research. 2017 Jan 01;350(1):1-8

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