BioProject

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most prevalent malignancy in Western countries and the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death in men. More...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most prevalent malignancy in Western countries and the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death in men. The risk factors for PCa include obesity, age, and family history. Visceral fat has been linked to PCa risk, which has prompted researchers to investigate the influence of body composition and fat distribution on PCa prognosis. This study investigated the correlation between the composition of pelvic adipose tissue (PAT) and PCa aggressiveness to understand the role played by this tissue in PCa progression. Moreover, we prepared a periprostatic adipose tissue (PPAT)-conditioned medium (CM) to determine the influence of the PPAT secretome on the pathophysiology of PCa. This study included 60 patients with localized PCa who received robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Medical records were collected, and magnetic resonance imaging scans were analyzed, and body compositions were calculated to identify the correlations between adipose tissue volume and clinical PCa aggressiveness. CM was prepared using PPAT and perivesical adipose tissue (PVAT) collected from 25 patients during surgery, and its influence was investigated using the PCa cell lines C4-2 and LNCaP and the prostate epithelial cell line PZ-HPV-7. Cell proliferation assays and RNA sequencing were performed. The initial prostate-specific antigen level was significantly correlated with pelvic and perirectal adipose tissue volumes. PPAT volume was significantly higher in patients with extracapsular tumor extension. PCa cells proliferated was significantly slower when cultured in PPAT-CM compared with when cultured in control- and PVAT-CM. RNA sequencing revealed that immune responses and the cell death and apoptosis pathways were enriched in PPAT-CM-cultured cells. The cytokines or other secreted factors in PPAT-CM induced PCa cell apoptosis. This in vitro study revealed that the PPAT secretome inhibits PCa cells proliferation by activating immune responses and promoting cancer cell apoptosis. This mechanism may act as a first-line defense during the early stages of PCa. Overall design: RNA-Seq was performed to enable a comparison of the RNA expression between cells cultured in control-CM, PPAT-CM, or PVAT-CM. Less...