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Down-regulation of AR protein was found to occur immediately following neonatal exposure to estradiol benzoate (EB) and persist through adulthood and aging, indicating a permanent imprint on the ability of the prostate to express normal AR levels. To determine the intracellular mechanism of AR down-regulation by estrogens, the present study examined the effect of neonatal EB on AR gene transcription, mRNA levels, protein translation, and protein degradation in the d 10 ventral prostate glands. Nuclear run-on assays showed no alteration in AR gene transcription following exposure to EB on d 1\u20135 compared with controls. In situ hybridization and quantitative (q) RT-PCR revealed no difference in mRNA levels in the stromal or epithelial cells in response to estrogen exposure which, taken together, indicate that estrogen down-regulation of AR is mediated at the posttranscriptional level. AR translation was assessed with an in vitro transcription-translation assay in the presence of prostatic lysates from oil and estrogen-exposed animals, and no treatment effect was noted. AR degradation was examined in an in vitro assay validated with adult intact and castrate prostates. Prostatic lysates from intact rats initiated AR degradation with a t1\/2 of 2.31 h, whereas proteins from castrate rats accelerated AR degradation to a t1\/2 of 1.34 h (P &amp;lt; 0.001). Prostatic lysates from control d 10 prostates induced AR degradation with a t1\/2 of 1.49 h, whereas estrogenized prostates increased AR degradation to a t1\/2 of 1.11 h (P &amp;lt; 0.001). Proteosome inhibitors MG132 and ALLnL were able to reverse AR degradation induced by prostatic lysates from adult intact and castrate rats as well as from developing and estrogenized prostates, indicating that AR degradation was mediated through the proteosome pathway. Furthermore, the proteosome-mediated AR degradation in the estrogenized d 10 prostate was associated with a marked suppression of Akt phosphorylation that has been linked to AR degradation in other systems. 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