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Immunological characterization and activity of transglutaminases in human normal and malignant prostate and in prostate cancer cell lines

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Using biochemical assays, we compared enzyme activities with the immunoreactivity of antibodies against rat seminal transglutaminase (TGase), human erythrocyte TGase and guinea pig liver TGase in human normal prostate, primary prostatic carcinomas and prostatic carcinoma cell lines. Glandular cells of the epithelium were only exceptionally positive with the antibody against (rat) secretory TGase. Using the antibodies against tissue-type TGase, most immunoreactive cells were found in the basal cell layer of prostatic epithelium as well as in stroma (fibroblasts, endothelial cells), whereas immunoreactive glandular cells were sparse. In the case of benign prostatic hyperplasia, few, irregularly distributed secretory cells along with a small number of stromal cells were also immunoreactive with the tissue-type TGase antibody. In dedifferentiated carcinomas, immunoreactive cells were nearly completely absent. Of the prostate cancer cell lines, the LNCaP line showed neither TGase enzyme activity nor immunoreactivity, whereas the PC-3 cell line displayed significant enzyme activity and immunoreactivity. No hormone-dependent changes in either enzyme activity or immunoreactivity were recorded after in vitro treatment of the respective cell lines with estrogens, androgens and antiandrogens. As there is no correlation between androgen deprivation and TGase expression in nonmalignant and malignant human prostatic epithelial cells, TGase activity more likely indicates cellular lesions and consecutive repair mechanisms.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Robert-Koch-Straße 6, D-35033, Marburg, Germany

    B. Friedrichs, H.-W. Goebel, U. Rausch & G. Aumüller

  2. Department of Urology, Philipps-University Marburg, Robert-Koch-Straße 6, D-35033, Marburg, Germany

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Friedrichs, B., Riedmiller, H., Goebel, HW. et al. Immunological characterization and activity of transglutaminases in human normal and malignant prostate and in prostate cancer cell lines. Urol. Res. 23, 301–310 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300018

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