Prostatic secretory protein (PSP94) expression in human female reproductive tissues, breast and in endometrial cancer cell lines
Prostatic secretory protein (PSP94) expression in human female reproductive tissues, breast and in endometrial cancer cell lines
复制标题
DOI:
10.1677/joe.0.1650425
复制
发表时间:
2000-05-01
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
Han, VKM
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Baijal-Gupta, M;Clarke, MW;Han, VKM
PSP94 (beta microseminoprotein, beta MSP) is one of the three major proteins secreted by the normal human prostate gland. Using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Southern blotting, PSP94 transcripts were shown in human endometrium, myometrium, ovary, breast, placenta and in the human endometrial cancer cell lines KI-E and AN3 CA, Primers used in these studies were specific for human prostate PSP94, and were derived from its flanking non-coding regions. The results were confirmed by sequence analysis of two independently derived clones from normal human breast tissues and the other two from KLE cells respectively. The sequences were identical with the coding sequence of human prostate PSP94 cDNA. Using RNA from the endometrial tissues, two different transcripts of similar to 487 bp, equivalent to prostate PSP94 and similar to 381 bp, corresponding to prostate PSP57, its alternately spliced form, were amplified by RT-PCR. Human ovary, breast, placenta and endometrial cancer cell lines (KLE, AN3 CA), however, showed only the full length, similar to 487 bp, PSP94 transcript. We further demonstrated by in situ hybridization that PSP94 mRNA is expressed specifically in the glandular epithelial cells, and not in the stroma of both the human endometrial and breast tissues. Further, using image analysis of in situ hybridization data, the levels of PSP94 mRNA in the cycling endometrial tissues and in breast confirmed the differential levels of expression in the cycling endometrium (P