School of Science and Technology, Centre for Health, Ageing and Understanding of Disease, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.
Department of Human and Paediatric Pathology "Gaetano Barresi", Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Messina 98125, Italy.
Mediators Inflamm. 2019 Jul 9;2019:7894017. doi: 10.1155/2019/7894017. eCollection 2019.
Investigations on prostate inflammation-related disorders, including acute and chronic prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), and prostate cancer (PCa), are still ongoing to find new, accurate, and noninvasive biomarkers for a differential diagnosis of those pathological conditions sharing some common macroscopic features. Moreover, an ideal biomarker should be useful for risk assessment of prostate inflammation progression to more severe disorders, like BPH or PCa, as well as for monitoring of treatment response and prognosis establishment in carcinoma cases. Recent literature evidence highlighted that changes in the expression of transglutaminases, enzymes that catalyze transamidation reactions leading to posttranslational modifications of soluble proteins, occur in prostate inflammation-related disorders. This review focuses on the role specifically played by transglutaminases 4 (TG4) and 2 (TG2) and suggests that both isoenzymes hold a potential to be included in the list of candidates as novel diagnostic biomarkers for the above-cited prostate pathological conditions.
目前,研究人员仍在探索与前列腺炎症相关的疾病,包括急性和慢性前列腺炎、慢性骨盆疼痛综合征、良性前列腺增生(BPH)和前列腺癌(PCa),以期找到新的、准确的、非侵入性生物标志物,用于这些具有一些共同宏观特征的病理情况的鉴别诊断。此外,理想的生物标志物应该有助于评估前列腺炎症向更严重疾病(如 BPH 或 PCa)发展的风险,以及用于监测治疗反应和建立癌病例的预后。最近的文献证据强调了转谷氨酰胺酶(催化导致可溶性蛋白翻译后修饰的转酰胺反应的酶)表达的变化发生在与前列腺炎症相关的疾病中。本综述特别关注转谷氨酰胺酶 4(TG4)和 2(TG2)的作用,并表明这两种同工酶都有可能被列入候选名单,作为上述前列腺病理情况的新型诊断生物标志物。