ID: 85. Issue 4 (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rinaldi, JD; Hu, W; Majundar, S; Hu, D; Prins, GS; Justulin, L; Felisbino, SL
• Is Part Of: Journal of investigative medicine. Volume 64:Issue 4(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: Clinical medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Research -- Periodicals; Medicine; Research -- United States; Clinical medicine; Medicine -- Research; Periodicals; 616.075
• DOI: 10.1136/jim-2016-000120.38
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1081-5589

Abstract

Abstract : We previously demonstrated that estrogen regulates human prostate stem/progenitor cell amplification by directly targeting estrogen receptors (ERs); ERα stimulates whereas ERβ suppresses stem cell self-renewal. In addition to ERα and ERβ, we find that human prostate stem/progenitor cells express robust level of IGF-1R. Since ER actions can be modified by IGF-1R through ligand-independent ER phosphorylation, we herein sought to characterize potential cross-talk between estrogen and IGF-1 signaling pathways in regulating human prostate stem/progenitor cell amplification. Human prostate stem/progenitor cells were isolated from normal primary prostate epithelial cells (PrEC) using 3-D prostasphere (PS) culture. Similar to estradiol-17β (E2 ), 5 nM IGF-1 treatment increased the number of PS as well as long-term BrdU-retaining prostate stem cells. Conversely, knockdown of IGF-1R by siRNA decreased both parameters and consistently increased PS ERβ expression. Together these findings suggest that IGF-1R activation may drive prostate stem cell amplification through suppression of ERβ. Further studies revealed that E2 (10 nM) exposure induced IGF-1R phosphorylation while IGF-1R knockdown inhibited the non-genomic E2 -induced pAkt and pERK confirming the cross-talk between these two signaling pathways. IGF-1R knockdown decreased PHLDA1, a known IGF-1 target gene, inhibited E2 -induced ERα phosphorylation, suggesting a positive interaction between IGF-1R and ERα. In summary, the present results document robust crosstalk between estrogen and IGF-1 signaling which together regulate their downstream signal molecules including pAKT/pERK and PHLDA1. We propose that these pathways coordinately modulate prostate stem and progenitor cell numbers to effectively maintain glandular homeostasis. Supported by NIH/NCI award R01 CA172220; scholarship by FAPESP grant#2014/10965-6.