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Expression data from Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer and Primary Small Cell Prostatic Carcinoma

ABSTRACT: Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is rare historically but may be increasingin prevalence as patients potentially develop resistance to contemporary anti-androgen treatment through a neuroendocrine phenotype. Diagnosis can be straightforward when classic morphological features are accompanied by a prototypical immunohistochemistry profile, however there is increasing recognition of disease heterogeneity and hybrid phenotypes. In the primary setting, small cell prostatic carcinoma (SCPC) is frequently admixed with adenocarcinomas that may be clonally related, while a small fraction of SCPC’s express markers typical of prostatic adenocarcinoma. Gene expression patterns may eventually help elucidate the biology underlying equivocal cases with discordant IHC, however studies to date have focused on prototypical cases and been based on few patients due to disease rarity. Here we examine 16 primary SCPC’s and 16 primary high grade adenocarcinomas profiled on exon arrays from archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE)material.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE104786 | GEO | 2018/02/23

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Purpose: Small-cell prostate carcinoma (SCPC) morphology predicts for a distinct clinical behavior, resistance to androgen ablation, and frequent but short responses to chemotherapy. The model systems we report reflect the biology of the human disease and can be used to improve our understanding of SCPC and to develop new therapeutic strategies for it. Experimental Design: We developed a set of CRPC xenografts and examined their fidelity to their human tumors of origin. We compared the expression and genomic profiles of SCPC and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) xenografts to those of typical prostate adenocarcinoma xenografts and used a panel of 60 human tumors to validate our findings using immunohistochemistry. Results: We show that SCPC and LCNEC xenograft models retain high fidelity to their human tumors of origin and are characterized by a marked upregulation of UBE2C and other M-phase cell cycle genes in the absence of AR, retinoblastoma (RB1) and cyclin D1 (CCND1) expression and confirm these findings in a panel of CRPC patients’ samples. In addition, array comparative genomic hybridization of the xenografts showed that the SCPC/LCNEC tumors display more copy number variations than the adenocarcinoma counterparts and that there is amplification of the UBE2C locus and microdeletions of RB1 in a subset of these, but no AR nor CCND1 deletions. Moreover, the AR, RB1, and CCND1 promoters showed no CpG methylation in the SCPC xenografts. Conclusion: Modeling human prostate cancer with xenografts allows in-depth and detailed studies of its underlying biology. The detailed clinical annotation of the donor tumors enables associations of anticipated relevance to be made. Futures studies in the xenografts will address the functional significance of the findings. 22 samples were analysed, that included MDA PCa 79 (n = 3), 117-9 (n = 3), 130 (n = 2), 144-4 (n = 4), 144-13 (n = 5), 146-10 (n = 3), 155-2 (n = 1), and 155-12 (n = 1). MDA PCA 79, 117-9 and 130 samples had the pathologic characteristics of prostate adenocarcinoma and were compared against MDA PCA 144-4, 144-13, 146-10 and 155-12 that have the pathologic features of prostate small cell/ large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma

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