Selenium effects on prostate cell growth.

Epidemiological and clinical data suggest that selenium may prevent prostate cancer, but the biological effects of selenium on normal or malignant prostate cells are not well known. We evaluated the effects of sodium selenite (Na2SeO3) or l-selenomethionine (SeMet) on monolayer and anchorage-independent growth in a series of normal primary prostate cultures (epithelial, stromal, and smooth muscle) and prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, PC-3, and DU145). We observed differential, dose-dependent growth inhibition and apoptosis within prostate cancer cells (compared with normal prostate cells) treated with 1-500 microM of Na2SeO3 or SeMet. Na2SeO3 more potently inhibited growth at any given concentration. The androgen-responsive LNCaP cells were the most sensitive to selenium growth suppression (IC50s at 72 h for Na2SeO3 and SeMet were 0.2 and 1.0 microM, respectively). Growth of the primary prostate cells virtually was not suppressed (IC50s at 72 h for Na2SeO3 and SeMet were 22-38 and >500 microM, respectively). We also observed that DNA condensation and DNA fragmentation (terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase dUTP nick end labeling/fluorescence-activated cell sorting) were elevated in selenium-treated cells and that activated caspase-3 colocalized with terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase dUTP nick end labeling-stained cells by immunofluorescence. Higher basal poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) expression levels and PARP cleavage (a substrate for caspase-3) were observed during apoptosis in tumor cells, compared with normal cells. Selective tumor cell death was associated with an increase in sub-G0-G1 cells after propidium iodide staining and fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis. SeMet caused an increase in arrest in the G2-M phase of the cell cycle selectively in cancer cells. Inhibition of cancer cell growth by SeMet was associated with phosphorylation of P-Tyr15-p34/cdc2, which caused growth arrest in the G2-M phase. Anchorage-independent growth of prostate cancer cells in soft agar was sensitive to selenium. Our results suggest that Na2SeO3 is the more potent inducer of apoptosis in normal and cancer prostate cells. Our SeMet results involving PARP and G2-M cell-cycle arrest (cited above) indicate that SeMet selectively induces apoptosis in cancer but not primary cells of the human prostate. Our overall findings are relevant to the molecular mechanisms of selenium actions on prostate carcinogenesis and help demonstrate the selective, dose-dependent effects of selenium (especially SeMet) on prostate cancer cell death and growth inhibition.

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