Zang Tianzhu, Taplin Mary-Ellen, Tamae Daniel, Xie Wanling, Mesaros Clementina, Zhang Zhenwei, Bubley Glenn, Montgomery Bruce, Balk Steven P, Mostaghel Elahe A, Blair Ian A, Penning Trevor M
Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational TherapeuticsPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Center of Excellence in Environmental ToxicologyPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Endocr Relat Cancer. 2017 Aug;24(8):393-404. doi: 10.1530/ERC-17-0107. Epub 2017 Jun 29.
Neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy (NADT) is one strategy for the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer; however, the long-term outcomes of NADT with radical prostatectomy including biochemical failure-free survival are not promising. One proposed mechanism is incomplete androgen ablation. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficiency of serum hydroxy-androgen suppression in patients with localized high-risk prostate cancer under NADT (leuprolide acetate plus abiraterone acetate and prednisone) and interrogate the primary sources of circulating hydroxy-androgens using our recently described stable isotope dilution liquid chromatography mass spectrometric method. For the first time, three androgen diols including 5-androstene-3β,17β-diol (5-adiol), 5α-androstane-3α,17β-diol (3α-adiol), 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3β-adiol), the glucuronide or sulfate conjugate of 5-adiol and 3α-adiol were measured and observed to be dramatically reduced after NADT. By comparing patients that took leuprolide acetate alone vs leuprolide acetate plus abiraterone acetate and prednisone, we were able to distinguish the primary sources of these androgens and their conjugates as being of either testicular or adrenal in origin. We find that testosterone, 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), 3α-adiol and 3β-adiol were predominately of testicular origin. By contrast, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), epi-androsterone (epi-AST) and their conjugates, 5-adiol sulfate and glucuronide were predominately of adrenal origin. Our findings also show that NADT failed to completely suppress DHEA-sulfate levels and that two unappreciated sources of intratumoral androgens that were not suppressed by leuprolide acetate alone were 5-adiol-sulfate and epi-AST-sulfate of adrenal origin.
新辅助雄激素剥夺疗法(NADT)是治疗早期前列腺癌的一种策略;然而,NADT联合根治性前列腺切除术的长期疗效,包括无生化复发生存率,并不乐观。一种提出的机制是雄激素消融不完全。在本研究中,我们旨在评估NADT(醋酸亮丙瑞林加醋酸阿比特龙和泼尼松)治疗下局部高危前列腺癌患者血清羟基雄激素抑制的效率,并使用我们最近描述的稳定同位素稀释液相色谱质谱法探究循环羟基雄激素的主要来源。首次测量了三种雄激素二醇,包括5-雄烯-3β,17β-二醇(5-二醇)、5α-雄烷-3α,17β-二醇(3α-二醇)、5α-雄烷-3β,17β-二醇(3β-二醇),以及5-二醇和3α-二醇的葡萄糖醛酸或硫酸酯共轭物,并观察到NADT后它们显著降低。通过比较单独使用醋酸亮丙瑞林与醋酸亮丙瑞林加醋酸阿比特龙和泼尼松的患者,我们能够区分这些雄激素及其共轭物的主要来源是睾丸还是肾上腺。我们发现,睾酮、5α-二氢睾酮(DHT)、3α-二醇和3β-二醇主要来源于睾丸。相比之下,脱氢表雄酮(DHEA)、表雄酮(epi-AST)及其共轭物、5-二醇硫酸盐和葡萄糖醛酸主要来源于肾上腺。我们的研究结果还表明,NADT未能完全抑制硫酸脱氢表雄酮水平,且醋酸亮丙瑞林单独无法抑制的肿瘤内雄激素的两个未被重视的来源是肾上腺来源的5-二醇硫酸盐和epi-AST硫酸盐。