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The androgen receptor induces a distinct transcriptional program in castration resistant prostate cancer in man

ABSTRACT: The androgen receptor (AR) is the major transcriptional driver of prostate cell growth in man. For the first time, we define AR targets in prostate cancer (PC) tissue representing progression from treatment-naive to castrate-resistant disease (CRPC). We employed chromatin immunoprecipitation with high through-put sequencing (ChIP-seq) in human tissue, with cell-line and xenograft studies. We uncovered an AR transcriptional network not observed in cultured cells, with significant over-representation of MYC, E2F and STAT binding sites, progenitor cell gene signatures and targets which regulate metabolism, cell cycle and steroid biosynthesis. We identified AR targets unique to CRPC tissue, with a subset over-expressed in CRPC and predictive of clinical outcome, highlighting persistence of AR signalling. Our data support a model whereby endocrine and paracrine signals converge on the AR in PC tissue to drive oncogenic transcriptional programs, highlighting the critical role of cellular context in the regulation of target selection and gene expression. chromatin immunoprecipitation with high through-put sequencing (ChIP-seq) in human tissue, with cell-line and xenograft studies

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Suraj Menon

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-28219 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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The androgen receptor induces a distinct transcriptional program in castration-resistant prostate cancer in man.

Sharma Naomi L NL Massie Charlie E CE Ramos-Montoya Antonio A Zecchini Vincent V Scott Helen E HE Lamb Alastair D AD MacArthur Stewart S Stark Rory R Warren Anne Y AY Mills Ian G IG Neal David E DE

Cancer cell 20121220 1

The androgen receptor (AR) regulates prostate cell growth in man, and prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men in the UK. We present a comprehensive analysis of AR binding sites in human prostate cancer tissues, including castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). We identified thousands of AR binding sites in CRPC tissue, most of which were not identified in PC cell lines. Many adjacent genes showed AR regulation in xenografts but not in cultured LNCaPs, demonstrating an in-vivo-restricte ...[more]

PMID: 23260764

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Project description:Characterization of the prostate cancer transcriptome and genome has identified chromosomal rearrangements and copy number gains/losses, including ETS gene fusions, PTEN loss and androgen receptor (AR) amplification, that drive prostate cancer development and progression to lethal, metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)1. As less is known about the role of mutations2-4, here we sequenced the exomes of 50 lethal, heavily-pretreated metastatic CRPCs obtained at rapid autopsy (including three different foci from the same patient) and 11 treatment naïve, high-grade localized prostate cancers. We identified low overall mutation rates even in heavily treated CRPC (2.00/Mb) and confirmed the monoclonal origin of lethal CRPC. Integrating exome copy number analysis identified disruptions of CHD1, which define a subtype of ETS? prostate cancer. Similarly, we demonstrate that ETS2, which is deleted in ~1/3 of CRPCs (commonly through TMPRSS2:ERG fusions), is a prostate cancer tumor suppressor that can also be deregulated through mutation. Further, we identified recurrent mutations in multiple chromatin/histone modifying genes, including MLL2 (mutated in 8.6% of prostate cancers), and demonstrate interaction of the MLL complex with AR, which is required for AR mediated signaling. We also identified novel recurrent mutations in the AR collaborating factor FOXA1, which is mutated in 5 of 147 (3.4%) prostate cancers (both untreated localized prostate cancer and CRPC) , and showed that mutated FOXA1 represses androgen signaling and increases tumor growth in vitro and in vivo. Proteins that physically interact with AR, such as the ERG gene fusion product, FOXA1, MLL2, UTX, and ASXL1 were found to be mutated in CRPC, suggesting novel drivers of prostate cancer progression and potential resistance mechanisms to anti-androgen therapies. In summary, we describe the mutational landscape of a heavily treated metastatic cancer, identify novel mechanisms of AR signaling deregulated in prostate cancer, and prioritize candidates for future study. Gene expression profiling and array CGH (aCGH) was performed on matched benign prostate tissues (n=28), localized prostate cancer (n=59), and metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC, n=35). For gene expression profiling, frozen prostate tissue samples (channel 2), were hybridized against a commercial pool of benign prostate tissue (Clontech, channel 1). For aCGH, frozen prostate tissue samples (channel 2) were hybridized against a commerical sample of Human Male Genomic DNA (Promega, channel 1).

Project description:Androgen receptor (AR) is overexpressed in the majority of castration-resistant prostate cancers (CRPCs). Our goal was to study the effect of AR overexpression on the chromatin binding of the receptor and to identify AR target genes that may be important in the emergence of CRPC. We have established two sublines of LNCaP prostate cancer (PC) cell line, one overexpressing AR 2M-bM-^@M-^S3-fold and the other 4M-bM-^@M-^S5-fold compared with the control cells. We used chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and deep-sequencing (seq) to identify AR-binding sites (ARBSs). We found that the number of ARBSs and the AR-binding strength were positively associated with the level of AR when cells were stimulated with low concentrations of androgens. In cells overexpressing AR, the chromatin binding of the receptor took place in 100-fold lower concentration of the ligand than in control cells. We conM-oM-,M-^Armed the association of AR level and chromatin binding in two PC xenografts, one containing AR gene ampliM-oM-,M-^Acation with high AR expression, and the other with low expression. By combining the ChIP-seq and expression proM-oM-,M-^Aling, we identiM-oM-,M-^Aed AR target genes that are upregulated in PC. Of them, the expression of ZWINT, SKP2 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (p45)) and FEN1 (M-oM-,M-^Bap structure-speciM-oM-,M-^Ac endonuclease 1) was demonstrated to be increased in CRPC, while the expression of SNAI2 was decreased in both PC and CRPC. FEN1 protein expression was also associated with poor prognosis in prostatectomy-treated patients. Finally, the knock-down of FEN1 with small interfering RNA inhibited the growth of LNCaP cells. Our data demonstrate that the overexpression of AR sensitizes the receptor binding to chromatin, thus, explaining how AR signaling pathway is reactivated in CRPC cells. Examination of AR binding with 9 cell line samples + control and 2 xenograft samples + control. ChIPseq with AR antibody in 3 different LNCaP derivative cell lines overexpressing AR upon treatment with different androgen concentrations and 2 different tumor xenografts expressing different AR levels.

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The androgen receptor induces a distinct transcriptional program in castration resistant prostate cancer in man

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The androgen receptor induces a distinct transcriptional program in castration-resistant prostate cancer in man.

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