title: Identification and characterization of the novel human prostate cancer-specific PC-1 gene promoter.
abstract: Human prostate and colon gene-1 (PC-1, also known as PrLZ) is an androgen-regulated, prostate tissue and prostate cancer cells specifically expressed novel gene. The increased expression of PC-1 gene appears to promote prostate cancer cells androgen-dependent (AD) and androgen-independent (AI) growth. To clone and investigate the expression and regulation elements of PC-1 gene may provide insight into the function of PC-1 and develop a new promoter that targets therapeutic genes to the AD and AI prostate cancer cells. The goal of the present study is cloning and characterization of the PC-1 promoter. A series of luciferase constructs that contain various fragments of the PC-1 5'-genomic region were transfected into human prostate cancer cells for promoter transactivation analysis. 5' deletion analysis identified the -1579 bp promoter region was required for the maximal proximal promoter activity; two transcriptional suppression and a positive regulatory region were identified; -4939 bp promoter fragment of the PC-1 gene retained the characteristic of prostate cancer-specific expression and exhibited higher transcription activity than PSA-6 kb promoter in the medium supplemented with steroid-depleted FBS. An androgen response element (ARE) was located in between -345 and -359 bp of the PC-1 5'-untranslated region relative to the translation initiation site. Thus, our studies not only provide molecular basis of PC-1 transcription regulation, but also define a new regulatory sequence that may be used to restrict expression of therapeutic genes to prostate cancer in the prostate cancer gene therapy.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, PR China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Rui-Xia
authors.initials: RX
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Qing-Guo
authors.initials: QG
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Pei-Tang
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Cui-Fen
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jian-Guang
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D011755:Pyrophosphatases / Q000235:genetics*; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D015533:Transcriptional Activation / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; C065962:ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase 1; D011755:Pyrophosphatases