Machtens, Stefan and Serth, Jürgen and Bokemeyer, Carsten and Bathke, Wolfgang and Minssen, Antje and Kollmannsberger, Christian and Hartmann, Jörg and Knuechel, Ruth and Kondo, Masahiko and Jonas, Udo and Kuczyk, Markus (2001) Expression of the p53 and maspin protein in primary prostate cancer: Correlation with clinical features. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER, 95 (5). pp. 337-342. ISSN 0020-7136
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The serine protease inhibitor Maspin has been reported to inhibit the invasiveness and motility of prostate cancer tumor cells. Additionally, a p53-dependent regulatory pathway of Maspin in prostate cancer cell lines has been indicated. The first aim of our study was to determine the prognostic value of Maspin protein expression for the recurrence-free survival of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy for the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer. Secondly, Maspin expression was correlated to p53 protein expression in order to gain additional information on a possible and previously suggested regulatory influence of the wild-type p53 protein on the Maspin protein expression. Tumor specimens obtained from 84 patients undergoing radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer were investigated for the expression of the Maspin and p53 protein by an immunohistochemic approach. Maspin protein expression was correlated with further patients' and tumor characteristics such as tumor stage, histologic grading, regional lymph node status, p53 protein expression and recurrence-free survival of the patients following radical prostatectomy. After a median follow-up of 64 months (24-197 months), 23 of 40 patients (58%) with a negative or decreased Maspin expression (group I) developed local recurrence or systemic tumor progression in contrast to 8 of 44 patients (18%) with a retained expression of the Maspin protein (group 2) (p = 0.02; log-rank test). The median recurrence-free survival following radical prostatectomy was 26 months (12-37 months) for group I patients and 41 months (5-134 months) for patients from group 2 (p = 0.04). A positive immunohistochemic staining reaction for the p53 protein was significantly correlated with a decreased expression of the Maspin protein (p = 0.015; Spearman correlation coefficient). Additionally, loss of Maspin protein expression was correlated to higher tumor stages (p = 0.002) and an increasing histologic dedifferentiation (p = 0.03). This is the first study to indicate that Maspin protein possibly functions as a clinically relevant inhibitor of tumor progression, preventing the local invasiveness and further systemic progression of prostate cancer. Our investigation delivers first hints for a p53-dependent regulatory pathway of the Maspin protein in human prostate cancer. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CELLS; MAMMARY; GENE; INVASION; MOTILITY; SERPIN; ETS; prostate cancer; Maspin protein expression; p53-dependent Maspin regulation; prognostic significance |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2021 08:06 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2021 08:06 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/41096 |
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