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Isolation of a Prostate Carcinoma Cell Proliferation-inhibiting Factor from Human Seminal Plasma and Its Similarity to Transforming Growth Factor ß]fr1

Departments of Urology [B. L. L., N. L. B.] and Oncology [N. L. B.], University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101

Human seminal plasma (SP) has been known to contain both growth-inhibitory and -stimulatory factors. We attempted to identify a factor that inhibited DNA synthesis in some metastatic prostate cancer cell lines. The SP factor was sensitive to digestion by trypsin, but its activity increased after boiling or dialysis against 1 M acetic acid, by 3- to 4-fold. The SP factor was partially purified using a cation-exchange resin. Apparent molecular mass determination by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed it to be a M_r 25,000 protein, and M_r 13,000 after reduction. This protein strongly inhibited DNA synthesis in two metastatic androgen-independent human prostatic carcinoma cell lines (PC3 and DU145) and the Dunning R3327G rat prostatic adenocarcinoma. It was ineffective on androgen-dependent LNCaP cells. The proliferation-inhibiting activity of this SP protein was specifically and completely abolished by a neutralizing anti-transforming growth factor ß (TGF-ß) antiserum. Furthermore, immunoblot analysis using the anti-TGF-ß antiserum showed the similarity of this protein to TGF-ß. The maximum concentration of this protein in SP was 165 ± 11.7 ng/ml (mean ± SD), of which only one-fourth may be present in active form under normal conditions. Identification of a TGF-ß-like protein in SP might also explain the variety of growth and immune modulation properties of human SP.

¹ Funded in part by the Weeks Endowment Fund, Department of Urology, University of Miami.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Urology (M-800), University of Miami School of Medicine, P. O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101.

Received 7/10/92. Accepted 8/31/92.

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