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SOX2 expression in the developing, adult, as well as diseased prostate

Xiuping Yu,J. Cates,C. Morrissey,Chaochen You,M. Grabowska,Jianghong Zhang,D. DeGraff,Douglas W. Strand,O. Franco,Opal Lin-Tsai,S. Hayward,R. Matusik

Published 2014 in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease

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Background:SOX2 is a member of SOX (SRY-related high mobility group box) family of transcription factors.Methods:In this study, we examined the expression of SOX2 in murine and human prostatic specimens by immunohistochemistry.Results:We found that SOX2 was expressed in murine prostates during budding morphogenesis and in neuroendocrine (NE) prostate cancer (PCa) murine models. Expression of SOX2 was also examined in human prostatic tissue. We found that SOX2 was expressed in 26 of the 30 BPH specimens. In these BPH samples, expression of SOX2 was limited to basal epithelial cells. In contrast, 24 of the 25 primary PCa specimens were negative for SOX2. The only positive primary PCa was the prostatic NE tumor, which also showed co-expression of synaptophysin. Additionally, the expression of SOX2 was detected in all prostatic NE tumor xenograft lines. Furthermore, we have examined the expression of SOX2 on a set of tissue microarrays consisting of metastatic PCa tissues. Expression of SOX2 was detected in at least one metastatic site in 15 of the 24 patients with metastatic castration-resistant PCa; and the expression of SOX2 was correlated with synaptophysin.Conclusions:SOX2 was expressed in developing prostates, basal cells of BPH, as well as prostatic NE tumors.

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