The Hsp90 inhibitor, 17‐AAG, prevents the ligand‐independent nuclear localization of androgen receptor in refractory prostate cancer cells
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BACKGROUND: Androgen receptor (AR) is the key molecule in androgen‐refractory prostate cancer. Despite androgen ablative conditions, AR remains active and is necessary for the growth of androgen‐refractory prostate cancer cells. Nuclear localization of AR is a prerequisite for its transcriptional activation. We examined AR localization in androgen‐dependent and androgen‐refractory prostate cancer cells. METHODS AND RESULTS: We demonstrate increased nuclear localization of a GFP‐tagged AR in the absence of hormone in androgen‐refractory C4‐2 cells compared to parental androgen‐sensitive human prostate cancer LNCaP cells. Analysis of AR mutants impaired in ligand‐binding indicates that the nuclear localization of AR in C4‐2 cells is truly androgen‐independent. The hsp90 inhibitor, 17‐allylamino‐17‐demethoxygeldanamycin (17‐AAG), inhibits basal PSA expression and disrupts the ligand‐independent nuclear localization of AR at doses much lower than required to inhibit androgen‐induced nuclear import. CONCLUSIONS: Hsp90 is a key regulator of ligand‐independent nuclear localization and activation of AR in androgen‐refractory prostate cancer cells. Prostate 67: 509–520, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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High concentrations of 17-AAG inhibit AR by affecting protein stability.
“Other groups have shown that high concentrations of 17-AAG inhibit AR by affecting protein stability (30)”
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17-AAG and FK506 each can inhibit prostate cancer cell growth in culture.
“17-AAG and the immunophilin ligand FK506 each can inhibit prostate cancer cell growth in culture (21, 30).”
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The Results report that 17-AAG reduces androgen-receptor nuclear localization and PSA expression in cultured prostate cancer cells, not that it inhibits cell growth. The Discussion explicitly leaves open whether receptor localization is sufficient to drive growth. Searches for growth inhibition, proliferation, and FK506 found no passage establishing the claimed growth effect; the sentence’s other citation may address FK506. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Saporita, A. J., Ai, J., & Wang, Z.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Zhou
- ORCID
- Wang, Zhou
- Venue
- The Prostate
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-01-12
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 509-520
- ISSN
- 0270-4137 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0045
- PMC
- PMC2810394
- OpenAlex
- W2081963757
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 5.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Prostate (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA108675, P50CA090386, T32 CA80621, T32CA080621, 1P50 CA90386)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK051193, 5 R01 DK51993)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heat shock proteins research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- androgen receptor, HSP90, 17-AAG, geldanamycin, androgen-refractory prostate cancer, nuclear import, prostate-specific antigen, C4-2 cells, LNCaP cells, Hsp90 inhibitors
- MeSH terms
- Cell Nucleus, Humans, Ligands, Male, Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent, Prostatic Neoplasms, Receptors, Androgen, RNA, Neoplasm, Transcription, Genetic, Transfection, Blotting, Northern, Blotting, Western, Benzoquinones, Prostate-Specific Antigen, HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins, Cell Line, Tumor, Lactams, Macrocyclic
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