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ABSTRACTS – ORAL PRESENTATIONS - AMCA, spol. s r.o.

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approaches how to detect and isolate mouse prostate stem cells and cancer stem cells,<br />

respectively. According to published results (Goldstein et al., 2008), using multicolor<br />

flow cytometry we detected putative mouse prostate adult stem cells with phenotype<br />

Lin - /Sca1 + /CD49f + /Trop-2 + in normal prostate and prostate cancer.<br />

To elucidate whether subpopulation of cells expressing stem cells markers display<br />

changes in levels of EMT markers and regulators, using high speed sorter we isolated<br />

subpopulations of cells with phenotype Lin - /Sca1 + /CD49f + /Trop-2 + and Lin - /Sca-1 - /CD49f - .<br />

Further we introduced a PCR method for detection of mRNA level from limited number<br />

of sorted cells and compared mRNA levels of EMT regulators (SNAI1, SNAI2, TWIST2,<br />

ZEB1, ZEB2), and markers of differentiation (VIM and CDH1) in these subpopulations.<br />

Our results show that EMT transcription factor SNAI2/Slug is strongly up-regulated in<br />

subpopulation of both mouse prostate stem cells and cancer stem cells with phenotype<br />

Lin - /Sca1 + /CD49f + /Trop2 + . Interestingly, this was not accompanied with up-regulation of<br />

EMT markers, since vimentin was found to be strongly down-regulated in both mouse<br />

prostate stem cells and cancer stem cells subpopulations. Further we aimed to confirm<br />

this Slug up-regulation also on protein level using multicolor flow cytometry protocol for<br />

simultaneous detection of selected surface and intracellular markers.<br />

Taken together our results show that subpopulation of cells with stem cell characteristics<br />

can be detected in both wt prostate and prostate cancer using combination of surface<br />

markers Sca-1, CD49f and Trop-2. Moreover, we found out that transcription factor and<br />

regulator of EMT Slug is strongly up-regulated in this subpopulation of putative prostate<br />

stem cells / cancer stem cells.<br />

Acknowledgements<br />

This work was supported by grants IGA MZD NT13573-4/2012, AV ČR M200041203, GA<br />

ČR P301/12/P407, HistoPARK (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0185), and by project FNUSA-ICRC (no.<br />

CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0123) from the European Regional Development Fund. Institutional<br />

support was provided by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.<br />

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