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  • Title: Protein profiling of post-prostatic massage urine specimens by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry to discriminate between prostate cancer and benign lesions.
    Author: Okamoto A, Yamamoto H, Imai A, Hatakeyama S, Iwabuchi I, Yoneyama T, Hashimoto Y, Koie T, Kamimura N, Mori K, Yamaya K, Ohyama C.
    Journal: Oncol Rep; 2009 Jan; 21(1):73-9. PubMed ID: 19082445.
    Abstract:
    Post-prostatic massage urine specimens (PMUS) are expected to be rich in proteins originating from the prostatic acini. In this study, we created a PMUS bank consisting of 57 samples obtained from patients with biopsy-proven prostate cancer (PC) and 56 samples from subjects with biopsy-proven benign lesions to analyze protein profiles of PMUS by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS). Strong anion-exchange (Q10), weak cation-exchange (CM10) and immobilized metal affinity capture (IMAC30) ProteinChip Arrays were used for protein profiling. In PC samples, single-marker analysis detected 49 mass peaks that were significantly up-regulated and 23 peaks that were significantly down-regulated, compared with peaks obtained from benign lesion samples. To confirm reproducibility we performed additional three rounds of assay using CM10 chip with pH 4.0 binding buffer. Among these significant peaks, a peak of m/z 10788 was significant throughout all 4 rounds of assays. For hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA), we used the 72 peaks which revealed significant differences in single-marker analysis. The heat map discriminated PC from benign lesions with a sensitivity of 91.7% and a specificity of 83.3%. Therefore, SELDI-TOF MS profiling of PMUS can be applied to differentiate patients with PC from cancer-free subjects. However, further investigation is required to verify the usefulness of this method in clinical practice.
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