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BROCCOLI CONSUMPTION INTERFERES WITH PROSTATE CANCER PROGRESSION: MECHANISMS OF ACTION
Article number
867_1
Pages
19 – 26
Language
English
Abstract
Epidemiological studies suggest that people who consume more than one portion of broccoli per week are at lower risk of both the incidence of prostate cancer and developing aggressive extraprostatic prostate cancer, and this is modulated by GSTM1 genotype.
In order to determine the mechanistic basis of chemoprotection by broccoli in vivo, we quantified with microarrays changes in global gene expression within prostate biopsies obtained from volunteers diagnosed with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), a condition that is considered pre malignant.
Firstly, we found significant differences in expression profiles between GSTM1 positive and null individuals who had been on the broccoli-rich diet for six months, but no differences in expression between GSTM1 genotypes that had been on the pea-rich diet.
These differences were associated with TGF
1 and EGF signalling pathways.
Secondly, through comparison of sequential biopsy samples, we found more changes in gene expression had occurred in individuals on a broccoli-rich diet than in those on a pea-rich diet, and these changes were associated with mRNA processing, TGF1 signalling, EGF signalling and insulin signalling.
In this manner, low levels of dietary isothiocyanates can have profound effects on signalling pathways associated with inflammation and carcinogenesis providing for the first time in vivo a mechanistic explanation for chemoprotection of broccoli.
In order to determine the mechanistic basis of chemoprotection by broccoli in vivo, we quantified with microarrays changes in global gene expression within prostate biopsies obtained from volunteers diagnosed with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), a condition that is considered pre malignant.
Firstly, we found significant differences in expression profiles between GSTM1 positive and null individuals who had been on the broccoli-rich diet for six months, but no differences in expression between GSTM1 genotypes that had been on the pea-rich diet.
These differences were associated with TGF
1 and EGF signalling pathways.Secondly, through comparison of sequential biopsy samples, we found more changes in gene expression had occurred in individuals on a broccoli-rich diet than in those on a pea-rich diet, and these changes were associated with mRNA processing, TGF
1 signalling, EGF signalling and insulin signalling.In this manner, low levels of dietary isothiocyanates can have profound effects on signalling pathways associated with inflammation and carcinogenesis providing for the first time in vivo a mechanistic explanation for chemoprotection of broccoli.
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Authors
M. Traka
Keywords
broccoli, prostate cancer, growth factors
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