Clinical Cancer Research, Vol 2, Issue 8 1255-1261, Copyright © 1996 by American Association for Cancer Research

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Loss of expression of transforming growth factor beta type I and type II receptors correlates with tumor grade in human prostate cancer tissues

IY Kim, HJ Ahn, DJ Zelner, JW Shaw, S Lang, M Kato, MG Oefelein, K Miyazono, JA Nemeth, JM Kozlowski and C Lee
Department of Urology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

Transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) is a potential regulator of prostate cancer cell growth that signals through a heteromeric complex composed of type I and type II receptors. In the present study, an attempt was made to establish a correlation between expression of TGF-beta receptors and tumor grade in archival human prostate cancer tissues. To this end, immunohistochemical studies for TGF-beta receptors were carried out on 32 cases of human prostate cancer and 8 samples of benign human prostate. In both benign and malignant human prostate tissues, immunoreactivity for both type I and type II receptors was detected predominantly in epithelial cells. In addition, there was an inverse correlation between the loss of expression of TGF-beta1 type I and type II receptors and the tumor grade. Of the 32 prostate cancer cases screened, staining was completely absent in four samples for type II receptor (P < 0.05) and eight samples for type I receptor (P < 0.025). In contrast, all eight samples of benign prostate tissues investigated in this study showed strong staining for both type I and type II receptors. These results, taken together, indicate that human prostate cancer cells frequently have loss of expression of TGF-beta type I and/or type II receptors. Furthermore, these observations provide a potential mechanism for prostate cancer cells to escape the growth-inhibitory effect of TGF-beta.

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