Survivin Is a Potential Mediator of Prostate Cancer Metastasis
- Arthur G. James Comprehensive Cancer Center and Richard L. Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical School, Columbus, OH (United States)
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (United States)
- Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH (United States)
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL (United States)
- Arthur G. James Comprehensive Cancer Center and Richard L. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Medical School, Columbus, OH (United States)
Purpose: We examined whether Survivin expression is associated with an increased risk of metastasis in prostate cancer. Methods and Materials: A total of 205 patients with T1 (23%) and T2 (77%) prostate cancer were treated with conventional external beam radiation therapy from 1991 to 1993 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Of the patients, 62 had adequate and suitable-stained tumor material for Survivin analysis. Median follow-up was 102 months (range, 5-127 months). Distant failure was determined on the basis of clinical criteria. In preclinical studies, replication-deficient adenovirus encoding phosphorylation-defective Survivin Thr34{yields}Ala dominant-negative mutant pAd-S(T34A) or short hairpin RNA (shRNA) was used to inhibit Survivin in prostate cancer models, and the cell motility, morphology, and metastasis were investigated. Results: Our correlative data on men with early-stage (T1/T2) prostate cancers treated at Massachusetts General Hospital by definitive radiotherapy indicated that overexpression of Survivin (positive staining in {>=}10% cells) was associated with a significantly increased risk for the subsequent development of distant metastasis (p = 0.016) in the univariate analysis. In the multivariate analysis, overexpression of Survivin remained an independent predictor of distant metastasis (p = 0.008). The inhibition of Survivin dramatically inhibited invasiveness of prostate cancer cells in the in vitro invasion assay and spontaneous metastasis in the Dunning prostate cancer in vivo model. Furthermore, attenuation of Survivin resulted in changes in the microtubule cytoskeleton, loss of cellular polarity, and loss of motility. Conclusions: This study suggests that Survivin may be a potentially important prognostic marker and promising therapeutic target in metastatic prostate cancer.
- OSTI ID:
- 21438045
- Journal Information:
- International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Vol. 78, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.09.007; PII: S0360-3016(09)03109-5; Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; ISSN 0360-3016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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