A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate

In normal rats and mice, immunostaining with specific antibodies revealed that nuclei of most prostatic epithelial cells harbor estrogen receptor β (ERβ). In rat ventral prostate, 530- and 549-aa isoforms of the receptor were identified. These sediment in the 4S region of low-salt sucrose gradients,...

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Main Authors: Weihua, Zhang, Mäkelä, Sari, Andersson, Leif C., Salmi, Saija, Saji, Shigehira, Webster, Jeanette I., Jensen, Elwood V., Nilsson, Stefan, Warner, Margaret, Gustafsson, Jan-Åke
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spelling pubmed-334682001-06-26 A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate Weihua, Zhang Mäkelä, Sari Andersson, Leif C. Salmi, Saija Saji, Shigehira Webster, Jeanette I. Jensen, Elwood V. Nilsson, Stefan Warner, Margaret Gustafsson, Jan-Åke Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Biological Sciences In normal rats and mice, immunostaining with specific antibodies revealed that nuclei of most prostatic epithelial cells harbor estrogen receptor β (ERβ). In rat ventral prostate, 530- and 549-aa isoforms of the receptor were identified. These sediment in the 4S region of low-salt sucrose gradients, indicating that prostatic ERβ does not contain the same protein chaperones that are associated with ERα. Estradiol (E(2)) binding and ERβ immunoreactivity coincide on the gradient, with no indication of ERα. In prostates from mice in which the ERβ gene has been inactivated (BERKO), androgen receptor (AR) levels are elevated, and the tissue contains multiple hyperplastic foci. Most epithelial cells express the proliferation antigen Ki-67. In contrast, prostatic epithelium from wild-type littermates is single layered with no hyperplasia, and very few cells express Ki-67. Rat ventral prostate contains an estrogenic component, which comigrates on HPLC with the testosterone metabolite 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3βAdiol). This compound, which competes with E(2) for binding to ERβ and elicits an estrogenic response in the aorta but not in the pituitary, decreases the AR content in prostates of wild-type mice but does not affect the elevated levels seen in ERβ knockout (BERKO) mice. Thus ERβ, probably as a complex with 3βAdiol, is involved in regulating the AR content of the rodent prostate and in restraining epithelial growth. These findings suggest that ligands specific for ERβ may be useful in the prevention and/or clinical management of prostatic hyperplasia and neoplasia. The National Academy of Sciences 2001-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC33468/ /pubmed/11371645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.111150898 Text en Copyright © 2001, The National Academy of Sciences
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language Inglês
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topic Biological Sciences
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Weihua, Zhang
Mäkelä, Sari
Andersson, Leif C.
Salmi, Saija
Saji, Shigehira
Webster, Jeanette I.
Jensen, Elwood V.
Nilsson, Stefan
Warner, Margaret
Gustafsson, Jan-Åke
A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
description In normal rats and mice, immunostaining with specific antibodies revealed that nuclei of most prostatic epithelial cells harbor estrogen receptor β (ERβ). In rat ventral prostate, 530- and 549-aa isoforms of the receptor were identified. These sediment in the 4S region of low-salt sucrose gradients, indicating that prostatic ERβ does not contain the same protein chaperones that are associated with ERα. Estradiol (E(2)) binding and ERβ immunoreactivity coincide on the gradient, with no indication of ERα. In prostates from mice in which the ERβ gene has been inactivated (BERKO), androgen receptor (AR) levels are elevated, and the tissue contains multiple hyperplastic foci. Most epithelial cells express the proliferation antigen Ki-67. In contrast, prostatic epithelium from wild-type littermates is single layered with no hyperplasia, and very few cells express Ki-67. Rat ventral prostate contains an estrogenic component, which comigrates on HPLC with the testosterone metabolite 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3βAdiol). This compound, which competes with E(2) for binding to ERβ and elicits an estrogenic response in the aorta but not in the pituitary, decreases the AR content in prostates of wild-type mice but does not affect the elevated levels seen in ERβ knockout (BERKO) mice. Thus ERβ, probably as a complex with 3βAdiol, is involved in regulating the AR content of the rodent prostate and in restraining epithelial growth. These findings suggest that ligands specific for ERβ may be useful in the prevention and/or clinical management of prostatic hyperplasia and neoplasia.
author Weihua, Zhang
Mäkelä, Sari
Andersson, Leif C.
Salmi, Saija
Saji, Shigehira
Webster, Jeanette I.
Jensen, Elwood V.
Nilsson, Stefan
Warner, Margaret
Gustafsson, Jan-Åke
author_facet Weihua, Zhang
Mäkelä, Sari
Andersson, Leif C.
Salmi, Saija
Saji, Shigehira
Webster, Jeanette I.
Jensen, Elwood V.
Nilsson, Stefan
Warner, Margaret
Gustafsson, Jan-Åke
author_sort Weihua, Zhang
title A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
title_short A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
title_full A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
title_fullStr A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
title_full_unstemmed A role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
title_sort role for estrogen receptor β in the regulation of growth of the ventral prostate
publisher The National Academy of Sciences
publishDate 2001
url https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33468/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11371645
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.111150898
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