McCray Tara, Pacheco Julian V, Loitz Candice C, Garcia Jason, Baumann Bethany, Schlicht Michael J, Valyi-Nagy Klara, Abern Michael R, Nonn Larisa
Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
University of Illinois Cancer Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
iScience. 2021 Jan 5;24(1):101974. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101974. eCollection 2021 Jan 22.
Vitamin D is an essential steroid hormone that regulates systemic calcium homeostasis and cell fate decisions. The prostate gland is hormonally regulated, requiring steroids for proliferation and differentiation of secretory luminal cells. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk of lethal prostate cancer, which exhibits a dedifferentiated pathology, linking vitamin D sufficiency to epithelial differentiation. To determine vitamin D regulation of prostatic epithelial differentiation, patient-derived benign prostate epithelial organoids were grown in vitamin D-deficient or -sufficient conditions. Organoids were assessed by phenotype and single-cell RNA sequencing. Mechanistic validation demonstrated that vitamin D sufficiency promoted organoid growth and accelerated differentiation by inhibiting canonical Wnt activity and suppressing Wnt family member DKK3. Wnt and DKK3 were also reduced by vitamin D in prostate tissue explants by spatial transcriptomics. Wnt dysregulation is a known contributor to aggressive prostate cancer, thus findings further link vitamin D deficiency to lethal disease.
维生素D是一种重要的类固醇激素,可调节全身钙稳态和细胞命运决定。前列腺受激素调节,分泌性管腔细胞的增殖和分化需要类固醇。维生素D缺乏与致命性前列腺癌风险增加有关,后者表现出去分化病理,将维生素D充足与上皮分化联系起来。为了确定维生素D对前列腺上皮分化的调节作用,将患者来源的良性前列腺上皮类器官在维生素D缺乏或充足的条件下培养。通过表型和单细胞RNA测序对类器官进行评估。机制验证表明,维生素D充足通过抑制经典Wnt活性和抑制Wnt家族成员DKK3促进类器官生长并加速分化。通过空间转录组学研究发现,维生素D还可降低前列腺组织外植体中的Wnt和DKK3。Wnt失调是侵袭性前列腺癌的已知促成因素,因此这些发现进一步将维生素D缺乏与致命性疾病联系起来。
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