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Carcinogenesis, Vol. 21, No. 8, 1623-1627, August 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Short Communication

Genomic instability-based transgenic models of prostate cancer

Christina Voelkel-Johnson, Dale J. Voeks2, Norman M. Greenberg3, Roberto Barrios4, Frideriki Maggouta, David T. Kurtz1, David A. Schwartz, Gina M. Keller, Thomas Papenbrock5, Gary A. Clawson6 and James S. Norris7

Department of Microbiology and Immunology and
1 Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Avenue, BSB 201, PO Box 250504, Charleston, SC 29425,
2 Oncology Research Center, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia,
3 Department of Cell Biology and
4 Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030,
5 School of Biological Sciences, Division of Cell Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX, UK and
6 Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA

To develop animal models that represent the broad spectrum of human prostate cancer, we created transgenic mice with targeted prostate-specific expression of two genes (EcoRI and c-fos) implicated in the induction of genomic instability. Expression of the transgenes was restricted to prostate epithelial cells by coupling them to the tissue-specific, hormonally regulated probasin promoter (PB). The effects of transgene expression were examined histologically in prostate sections at time points taken from 4 to 24 months of age. The progressive presence of regions of mild-to-severe hyperplasia, low- and high-grade prostatic intra-epithelial neoplasia, and well-differentiated adenocarcinoma was observed in both PBEcoRI lines but no significant pathology was detected in the PBfos line. Prostate tissue of PBEcoRI mice was examined for expression of p53, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and Ki67 at multiple time points. Although p53 does not appear to be mutated, levels of PCNA and Ki67 are elevated and correlate with the severity of the prostatic lesions. Overall, pre-neoplastic and neoplastic stages represented in the PBEcoRI model showed similarity to corresponding early stages of the human disease. This genomic instability-based model will be used to study the mechanisms involved in the early stages of prostate carcinogenesis and to investigate the nature of subsequent events necessary for the progression to advanced disease.


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