Overexpression of tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2), decreases the invasiveness of prostate cancer cells in vitro |
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Authors: | Konduri S D Tasiou A Chandrasekar N Rao J S |
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Affiliation: | Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. |
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Abstract: | Human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2) is a 32-kDa serine protease inhibitor that inhibits plasmin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, cathepsin G, and plasma kallikrein but not urokinase and tissue-type plasminogen activators or thrombin. After discovering that TFPI-2 expression is down-regulated or lost during tumor progression, we investigated the role of TFPI-2 in the invasiveness of the prostate cancer cell line (LNCaP). We stably transfected LNCaP cells with a 0.7-kb vector expressing TFPI-2 in the sense orientation and measured the expression of TFPI-2 protein and mRNA by these cells by western and northern blotting. Neither TFPI-2 protein nor mRNA was expressed by parental LNCaP cells or vector-transfected controls, but levels of both protein and mRNA were significantly increased in the sense-TFPI-2 clones. The sense clones were less invasive than the control cells in Matrigel invasion and spheroid migration assays. This is the first demonstration that upregulation of TFPI-2 plays a significant role in the invasive behavior of human prostate cancer cells. |
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