PC3 (PC-3) is a human prostate cancer cell line used in prostate cancer research and drug development. PC3 cells are useful in investigating biochemical changes in advanced prostate cancer cells and in assessing their response to chemotherapeutic agents. PC3 cells are also used to study viral infection in mammalian cells that exhibit an immune response[1]
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The PC3 cell line was established in 1979 from bone metastasis of grade IV of prostate cancer in a 62-year-old Caucasian male.[2] These cells do not respond to androgens, glucocorticoids or fibroblast growth factors,[3] but results suggest that the cells are influenced by epidermal growth factors.[4] PC3 cells can be used to create subcutaneous tumor xenografts in mice to investigate the tumor environment and therapeutic drug functionality.[5]
PC3 cells have high metastatic potential compared to DU145 cells, which have a moderate metastatic potential, and to LNCaP cells, which have low metastatic potential.[citation needed] Comparisons of the protein expression of PC3, LNCaP, and other cells have shown that PC3 is characteristic of small cell neoendocrine carcinoma.[3]
PC3 cells have low testosterone-5-alpha reductase and acidic phosphatase activity, and do not express PSA (prostate-specific antigen). Furthermore, karyotypic analysis has shown that PC3 are near-triploid, having 62 chromosomes. Q-band analysis showed no Y chromosome. From a morphological point of view, electron microscopy revealed that PC3 cells show characteristics of a poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma. They have features common to neoplastic cells of epithelial origins, such as numerous microvilli, junctional complexes, abnormal nuclei and nucleoli, abnormal mitochondria, annulate lamellae, and lipoidal bodies.[citation needed]
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- ^ Kaighn ME, Narayan KS, Ohnuki Y, Lechner JF, Jones LW (July 1979). "Establishment and characterization of a human prostatic carcinoma cell line (PC-3)". Investigative Urology. 17 (1): 16–23. PMID 447482.
- ^ a b Tai S, Sun Y, Squires JM, Zhang H, Oh WK, Liang CZ, Huang J (November 2011). "PC3 is a cell line characteristic of prostatic small cell carcinoma". The Prostate. 71 (15): 1668–79. doi:10.1002/pros.21383. PMC 3426349. PMID 21432867.
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- ^ Germain, Lucas; Lafront, Camille; Paquette, Virginie; Neveu, Bertrand; Paquette, Jean-Sébastien; Pouliot, Frédéric; Audet-Walsh, Étienne (August 2023). "Preclinical models of prostate cancer — modelling androgen dependency and castration resistance in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo". Nature Reviews Urology. 20 (8): 480–493. doi:10.1038/s41585-023-00726-1. ISSN 1759-4820.
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edit- Information on PC3 in the ATCC catalog
- Cellosaurus entry for PC3
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