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