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Query: EC:3.4.24.3 (collagenase)
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A nuclear binding (NB) assay has been developed for the measurement in intact viable cells of biologically active (functional) estrogen and progesterone receptors, i.e. those capable of binding to nuclear acceptor sites [Spelsberg et al., Endocrinology 121: 631 (1987)]. This paper describes the application of this assay to analyses of androgen receptors in the guinea pig seminal vesicle and in human prostatic carcinoma. Cells from fresh animal seminal vesicles or human prostate carcinoma are isolated using collagenase and are incubated with [3H]R1881 for 1 h at 22 degrees C, after which nuclei are isolated at 4 degrees C and assayed for DNA and radioactivity. This NB assay demonstrates a saturable, temperature dependent, steroid and tissue specific nuclear binding of [3H]R1881 for the guinea pig-seminal vesicle system. The nuclear binding is of high affinity and low capacity. The NB assay reveals several important aspects of the androgen and estrogen receptors in target tissues: (1) the nuclear acceptor sites for androgen receptor (AR) are steroid receptor specific; (2) there are different concentrations of the androgen and estrogen receptors between the epithelium and the fibromuscular components of the guinea pig seminal vesicle; and finally (3) some biopsies of human prostate cancer appear to contain biologically inactive AR. This assay may be useful in the analyses of functional receptors in biopsies of human cancer cells.
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PMID:A nuclear binding assay for measurement of biologically active androgen receptors in animal tissues and human prostate cancer. 326 Sep 78

Continuous culturing of two distinct human prostate specimens in the presence of interstitial collagenase added directly to conventional medium resulted in the isolation and extended growth of primary epithelial prostate cell (PEPC) cultures from each. Both continued to proliferate substantially beyond the average time determined for analogous untreated epithelial prostate isolates. Both repeatedly stain positive for keratin and are characteristically epithelial in morphological appearance and growth model. Both express androgen receptor mRNA and stain positive for androgen receptors. PEPC-2 displays an androgen dose-dependent stimulation of cell proliferation, as well as specifically binding 3H-R1881. PEPC-1 exhibits a hypotetraploid karyotype with loss of the Y chromosome. PEPC-2 conserves a normal human ploidy, including the Y chromosome, although there is extensive random chromosome loss. Elimination of the collagenase from the medium resulted in decreased cellular proliferation and accumulation of stainable collagen in both PEPC cultures. Neither PEPC isolate produced tumors in male nude mice, whether injected alone, mixed with matrigel, or combined with prostate or bone fibroblastic cells.
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PMID:Extended culturing of androgen-responsive human primary epithelial prostate cell isolates by continuous treatment with interstitial collagenase. 901 30