Activation of P-TEFb by enhancer RNAs associated with lethal prostate cancer [ChIP-seq]

ABSTRACT: Castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a lethal disease. Sustained aberrant activation of androgen receptor (AR) becomes a central mechanism that contributes to endocrine therapy resistance. Here, we demonstrate that AR-bound enhancer RNAs (AR-eRNAs), including eRNA of the KLK3 (or PSA) gene, are upregulated in human CRPC cells and patient tissues. By enhancing C-termine domain (CTD) serine-2 phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II-Ser2p), PSA eRNA acts in cis to promote PSA mRNA transcription and in trans to induce mRNA expression of a large set of genes involved in androgen action, cell cycle progression and tumorgenesis. Accordingly, we demonstrate that PSA eRNA binds in vitro and in vivo to CYCLIN T1, a regulatory subunit of the positive transcription elongation factor

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: LIGUO WANG 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-65066 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress