Clusterin is a highly conserved, widely distributed glycoprotein whose biological significance is still debated. Involved in many biological processes and disease states, clusterin is induced by cell injury and tissue regression, but is repressed during cell proliferation. We have previously reported that clusterin mRNA induction is associated with epithelial cell atrophy in the rat prostate and both clusterin transcript and protein accumulated in quiescent normal human skin fibroblasts. Here we show that transient clusterin overexpression, in SV40-immortalized human prostate epithelial cells (PNT2), resulted in increased accumulation of cells in the G(0)/G(1) phases of the cell cycle, accompanied by slowdown of cell cycle progression and decrease of DNA synthesis. The activities of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-andenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC), and the level of histone H3 mRNA (markers of cell proliferation) concomitantly decreased, while Gas1 mRNA (a marker of cell quiescence) accumulated. Thus it appears that clusterin, by opposing the effect of SV40 on the proliferation rate of PNT2 cells, acts as an antioncogene in the prostate, suggesting a role for this gene in controlling proliferation of normal and transformed prostate epithelial cells.

Clusterin (SGP-2) transient overexpression decreases proliferation rate of SV40-immortalized human prostate epithelial cells by slowing down cell cycle progression / S., Bettuzzi; F., Scorcioni; Astancolle, Serenella; Davalli, Pierpaola; M., Scaltriti; Corti, Arnaldo. - In: ONCOGENE. - ISSN 0950-9232. - STAMPA. - 21:(2002), pp. 4328-4334. [10.1038/sj.onc.1205594]

Clusterin (SGP-2) transient overexpression decreases proliferation rate of SV40-immortalized human prostate epithelial cells by slowing down cell cycle progression

ASTANCOLLE, Serenella;DAVALLI, Pierpaola;CORTI, Arnaldo
2002

Abstract

Clusterin is a highly conserved, widely distributed glycoprotein whose biological significance is still debated. Involved in many biological processes and disease states, clusterin is induced by cell injury and tissue regression, but is repressed during cell proliferation. We have previously reported that clusterin mRNA induction is associated with epithelial cell atrophy in the rat prostate and both clusterin transcript and protein accumulated in quiescent normal human skin fibroblasts. Here we show that transient clusterin overexpression, in SV40-immortalized human prostate epithelial cells (PNT2), resulted in increased accumulation of cells in the G(0)/G(1) phases of the cell cycle, accompanied by slowdown of cell cycle progression and decrease of DNA synthesis. The activities of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-andenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC), and the level of histone H3 mRNA (markers of cell proliferation) concomitantly decreased, while Gas1 mRNA (a marker of cell quiescence) accumulated. Thus it appears that clusterin, by opposing the effect of SV40 on the proliferation rate of PNT2 cells, acts as an antioncogene in the prostate, suggesting a role for this gene in controlling proliferation of normal and transformed prostate epithelial cells.
2002
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4328
4334
Clusterin (SGP-2) transient overexpression decreases proliferation rate of SV40-immortalized human prostate epithelial cells by slowing down cell cycle progression / S., Bettuzzi; F., Scorcioni; Astancolle, Serenella; Davalli, Pierpaola; M., Scaltriti; Corti, Arnaldo. - In: ONCOGENE. - ISSN 0950-9232. - STAMPA. - 21:(2002), pp. 4328-4334. [10.1038/sj.onc.1205594]
S., Bettuzzi; F., Scorcioni; Astancolle, Serenella; Davalli, Pierpaola; M., Scaltriti; Corti, Arnaldo
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