Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet

Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Gene expression profiles define molecular subtypes of prostate cancer bone metastases with different outcomes and morphology traceable back to the primary tumor
Umea Univ, Dept Med Biosci, Pathol, SE-90185 Umea, Sweden.
Umea Univ, Dept Math & Math Stat, Umea, Sweden.
Umea Univ, Dept Med Biosci, Pathol, SE-90185 Umea, Sweden.
Umea Univ, Dept Med Biosci, Pathol, SE-90185 Umea, Sweden.
Show others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Molecular Oncology, ISSN 1574-7891, E-ISSN 1878-0261, Vol. 13, no 8, p. 1763-1777Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Bone metastasis is the lethal end-stage of prostate cancer (PC), but the biology of bone metastases is poorly understood. The overall aim of this study was therefore to explore molecular variability in PC bone metastases of potential importance for therapy. Specifically, genome-wide expression profiles of bone metastases from untreated patients (n = 12) and patients treated with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT, n = 60) were analyzed in relation to patient outcome and to morphological characteristics in metastases and paired primary tumors. Principal component analysis and unsupervised classification were used to identify sample clusters based on mRNA profiles. Clusters were characterized by gene set enrichment analysis and related to histological and clinical parameters using univariate and multivariate statistics. Selected proteins were analyzed by immunohistochemistry in metastases and matched primary tumors (n = 52) and in transurethral resected prostate (TUR-P) tissue of a separate cohort (n = 59). Three molecular subtypes of bone metastases (MetA-C) characterized by differences in gene expression pattern, morphology, and clinical behavior were identified. MetA (71% of the cases) showed increased expression of androgen receptor-regulated genes, including prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and glandular structures indicating a luminal cell phenotype. MetB (17%) showed expression profiles related to cell cycle activity and DNA damage, and a pronounced cellular atypia. MetC (12%) exhibited enriched stroma-epithelial cell interactions. MetB patients had the lowest serum PSA levels and the poorest prognosis after ADT. Combined analysis of PSA and Ki67 immunoreactivity (proliferation) in bone metastases, paired primary tumors, and TUR-P samples was able to differentiate MetA-like (high PSA, low Ki67) from MetB-like (low PSA, high Ki67) tumors and demonstrate their different prognosis. In conclusion, bone metastases from PC patients are separated based on gene expression profiles into molecular subtypes with different morphology, biology, and clinical outcome. These findings deserve further exploration with the purpose of improving treatment of metastatic PC.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. Vol. 13, no 8, p. 1763-1777
Keywords [en]
bone metastasis, gene expression, gene set enrichment analysis, morphology, survival, unsupervised cluster analysis
National Category
Cancer and Oncology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-393124DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.12526ISI: 000478600200009PubMedID: 31162796OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-393124DiVA, id: diva2:1354060
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2015-02393 WikstromSwedish Foundation for Strategic Research , RB13-0119Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research , WikstromSwedish Cancer Society, CAN 2016/824Swedish Cancer Society, CAN 2013/1324Swedish Cancer Society, CAN2016/387Swedish Cancer Society, CAN 2015/732Available from: 2019-09-24 Created: 2019-09-24 Last updated: 2019-09-24Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(2177 kB)279 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 2177 kBChecksum SHA-512
b452ad51ce852bdae9cbe0551a0cdb2dd017ee20c8aff2ac4312022c00a47d355fe6510d17712f173ff012729d4019b75b4d0c66646051fdbdf304c7677b91eb
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMed

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Stattin, Pär
By organisation
Urology
In the same journal
Molecular Oncology
Cancer and Oncology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 279 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 188 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf