Small interference RNA targeting heat-shock protein 27 inhibits the growth of prostatic cell lines and induces apoptosis via caspase-3 activation in vitro.
Authors
Rocchi P, Jugpal P, So A, Sinneman S, Ettinger S, Fazli L, Nelson C, Gleave M
Summary
To evaluate synthetic small interference RNA (siRNA) compounds targeting heat-shock protein 27 (Hsp27) as an alternative approach to Hsp27 ‘knockdown’ in prostate cancer cells, as Hsp27 expression is highly up-regulated in prostate cancer cells after androgen withdrawal or chemotherapy, to become uniformly highly expressed in androgen-independent (AI) prostate cancer.
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