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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 29, 26618-26622, July 19, 2002

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Sex Hormone-binding Globulin in the Human Prostate Is Locally Synthesized and May Act as an Autocrine/Paracrine Effector^*

Daniel J. Hryb, Atif M. Nakhla, Scott M. Kahn^§, Jonathan St. George, Nomi C. Levy, Nicholas A. Romas^§, and William Rosner^¶

From the Departments of  Medicine and ^§ Urology, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10019

Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a plasma protein synthesized and secreted by the liver. Its initial description stemmed from its ability to bind estrogens and androgens and its capacity to regulate the free concentration of the steroids that bind to it. Additionally, it participates in signal transduction for certain steroid hormones at the cell membrane. It binds with high affinity to a specific membrane receptor (R_SHBG) in prostate stromal and epithelial cells, wherein the SHBG·R_SHBG complex forms. An appropriate steroid binds to this complex and results in increases of intracellular cAMP. These two disparate functions of SHBG, regulation of the concentration of free steroids in plasma and signal transduction in selected tissues, raise the question of how its synthesis and secretion might be regulated so as to best perform these two disparate functions. In this paper we demonstrate that SHBG is produced in human prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, DU 145, and PC 3) as well as in cultured human prostate epithelial and stromal cells. In addition, in tissue sections of human prostate, we demonstrate the presence of SHBG (immunocytochemistry) and SHBG mRNA (in situ hybridization). These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that SHBG, destined to participate in signaling at the cell membrane, is locally regulated and produced.

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