Abstract
The role of human prostatic acid phosphatase (PAcP, P15309|PPAP HUMAN) in prostate cancer was investigated using a new proteomics tool termed signal sequence swapping (replacement of domains from the native cleaved amino terminal signal sequence of secretory/membrane proteins with corresponding regions of functionally distinct signal sequence subtypes). This manipulation preferentially redirects proteins to different pathways of biogenesis at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), magnifying normally difficult to detect subsets of the protein of interest. For PAcP, this technique reveals three forms identical in amino acid sequence but profoundly different in physiological functions, subcellular location, and biochemical properties. These three forms of PAcP can also occur with the wildtype PAcP signal sequence. Clinical specimens from patients with prostate cancer demonstrate that one form, termed PLPAcP, correlates with early prostate cancer. These findings confirm the analytical power of this method, implicate PLPAcP in prostate cancer pathogenesis, and suggest novel anticancer therapeutic strategies.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | BSR20211646 |
| Journal | Bioscience Reports |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 4 Oct 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
Funding
This work supported by the NIH (to Ming-Fong Lin and Vishwanath R. Lingappa); the CPMC Research Institute; and the Prosetta Corporation of which Vishwanath R. Lingappa is a founder and Chief Technology Officer.
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| CPMC Research Institute |
| Chief Technology Officer |
| National Institutes of Health |
UN SDGs
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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