Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men. Diagnosis and risk assessment are widely based on serum Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) and biopsy which have low accuracy. Towards the discovery of biomarkers for better patient stratification, we performed proteomic analysis of Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) prostate tissue specimens following optimized sample preparation protocol and LC-MS/MS. Comparative analysis of 86 PCa samples among grade groups 1-5 identified 301 differentially expressed proteins involved in metabolism, angiogenesis, response to stress and cytoskeleton organization. Additional analysis based on biochemical recurrence (BCR; BCR+ n=14, BCR- n=51) revealed 197 differentially expressed proteins that indicate disease persistence. Filtering the overlapping proteins of these analyses, seven proteins (NPM1, UQCRH, HSPA9, MRPL3, VCAN, SERBP1, HSPE1) had increased expression in advanced grades and in BCR+/BCR- and may play a critical role in PCa aggressiveness and persistence. Notably, our observations for NPM1, UQCRH and VCAN were validated in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), where they were upregulated in BCR+/BCR-. UQCRH levels were also associated with 5-year survival. Our study provides valuable insights on the key regulators of PCa progression and aggressiveness. The seven selected proteins could be used for the development of risk assessment tools.
[doi:10.25345/C5F766B63]
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Keywords: Prostate cancer ; proteomics ; biochemical recurrence ; biomarkers ; FFPE samples ; geLC-MS/MS
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Antonia Vlahou, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece |
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