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ArticleMicroarrays (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Cancer-Osteoblast Interaction Reduces Sost Expression in Osteoblasts and Up-Regulates lncRNA MALAT1 in Prostate Cancer.

Aimy Sebastian, Nicholas R Hum, Bryan D Hudson, Gabriela G Loots

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Article in Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. 2D and 3D In Vitro Co-Culture for Cancer and Bone Cell Interaction Studies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aimy SebastianLawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. asebastian2@ucmerced.edu.
Nicholas R HumLawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. hum3@llnl.gov.
Bryan D HudsonLawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. bryandhudson@gmail.com.
Gabriela G LootsLawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. loots1@llnl.gov.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · USUniversity of California, Merced · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic interaction between prostate cancer and the bone microenvironment is a major contributor to metastasis of prostate cancer to bone. In this study, we utilized an in vitro co-culture model of PC3 prostate cancer cells and osteoblasts followed by microarray based gene expression profiling to identify previously unrecognized prostate cancer-bone microenvironment interactions. Factors secreted by PC3 cells resulted in the up-regulation of many genes in osteoblasts associated with bone metabolism and cancer metastasis, including Mmp13, Il-6 and Tgfb2, and down-regulation of Wnt inhibitor Sost. To determine whether altered Sost expression in the bone microenvironment has an effect on prostate cancer metastasis, we co-cultured PC3 cells with Sost knockout (Sost(KO)) osteoblasts and wildtype (WT) osteoblasts and identified several genes differentially regulated between PC3-Sost(KO) osteoblast co-cultures and PC3-WT osteoblast co-cultures. Co-culturing PC3 cells with WT osteoblasts up-regulated cancer-associated long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) MALAT1 in PC3 cells. MALAT1 expression was further enhanced when PC3 cells were co-cultured with Sost(KO) osteoblasts and treatment with recombinant Sost down-regulated MALAT1 expression in these cells. Our results suggest that reduced Sost expression in the tumor microenvironment may promote bone metastasis by up-regulating MALAT1 in prostate cancer.

Indexed as

co-cultureIl6MALAT1Mmp13osteoblastPC3prostate cancerSostTgfb2

Identifiers

PMID27600237
PMCPMC4996404
OpenAlexW1850078463

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