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CREB5 promotes resistance to androgen-receptor antagonists and androgen deprivation in prostate cancer

ABSTRACT: Inhibition of androgen-receptor (AR)signaling is the foundation of therapeutic regimens for advanced prostate cancers. However, nearly all patientsdevelop resistance and some never respond. To identify genes that mediate resistance to androgen ablation therapy, we performed an open reading frame (ORF) expression screen of17,255 ORFs and found that the transcription factorCREB5robustly conferred resistance to androgen deprivation and AR inhibition by enzalutamide. CREB5 overexpressionincreased enzalutamide-resistance 45-fold, enhanced resistance of tumor xenografts. CREB5 expression was also essential for enzalutamide-resistance patient-derived organoids. In clinical mCRPC, CREB5is frequently amplified and itsoverexpression positively correlated with castration resistance gene signatures including those of MYC and cell cycle. Mechanistically, CREB5 directly interacted at AR binding sites andenhanced site-specific AR bindingin enzalutamide. This dysregulated expression of 393 AR target genes including MYC and CDK1.These observations identifyCREB5asadriver of enzalutamide-resistance in a subset of advancedprostate cancer.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE137775 | GEO | 2019/09/21

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Background. Androgen receptor splice variant-7 (AR-V7) is a truncated form of the androgen receptor protein which lacks the ligand-binding domain, the target of enzalutamide and abiraterone, but remains constitutively active as a transcription factor. We hypothesized that detection of AR-V7 in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from men with advanced prostate cancer would be associated with resistance to enzalutamide and abiraterone. Methods. We used quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase-chain-reaction (qRT-PCR) to interrogate CTCs for the presence or absence of AR-V7 from prospectively enrolled patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer initiating treatment with either enzalutamide or abiraterone. We examined associations between AR-V7 status and PSA response rates, PSA-progression-free-survival (PSA-PFS), clinical/radiographic-progression-free-survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS). Multivariable Cox regression analyses were performed to determine the independent effect of AR-V7 status on clinical outcomes. Results. Thirty-one enzalutamide-treated patients and thirty-one abiraterone-treated patients were enrolled, of which 38.7% and 19.4% had detectable AR-V7 from CTCs, respectively. Among men receiving enzalutamide, AR-V7–positive patients had inferior PSA response rates (0% vs 52.6%, P=0.004), PSA-PFS (median: 1.4 vs 6.0 months, P<0.001), PFS (median: 2.1 vs 6.1 months, P<0.001), and OS (median: 5.5 months vs not reached, P=0.002) compared to AR-V7–negative patients. Similarly, among men receiving abiraterone, AR-V7–positive patients had inferior PSA response rates (0% vs 68.0%, P=0.004), PSA-PFS (median: 1.3 months vs not reached, P<0.001), PFS (median: 2.3 months vs not reached, P<0.001), and OS (median: 10.6 months vs not reached, P=0.006). The negative prognostic impact of AR-V7 was maintained after adjusting for full-length-AR expression. Conclusions. Detection of AR-V7 in CTCs from patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer is associated with resistance to enzalutamide and abiraterone. A total of four metastatic castration-resistant prostate tumor samples from four patients were subjected to RNA-seq. Two samples were positive for androgen receptor splice variant 7 and the other two were negative for this variant.

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