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HOXB13 epigenome in castration-resistant prostate cancer

ABSTRACT: Treatment induced-resistance of CRPC is an imminent undesirable outcome in patients. Tissue and lineage-specific super-enhancers (SEs) determine cell fate and plasticity during development and disease respectively. However, the identity and function of CRPC-specific SEs (CSEs) regulated genes is unknown. Herein we report the lysine 13 acetylation of the prostate-enriched transcription factor HOXB13 (acK13-HOXB13) mediated by the histone acetyl transferase (HAT) CBP/p300 as a critical mechanism of CSE establishment. Mechanistically, acK13-HOXB13 establishes the CRPC enhanceosome comprising chromatin remodeling bromo-domain proteins SMARCA2/BAZ2B and the HAT p300/CBP which enable histone and non-histone protein acetylation at CSEs. Such CSEs sprout at tyrosine kinase genes encoding ACK1/TNK2, VEGFA, and ANGPT2/ANGPTL3 to increase pathogenic output in primary human tumors. These tyrosine kinase mediated signaling cascades establish robust networks to conduce growth, survival and androgen-bypass. Consistently, the loss of function acK13-HOXB13 mutants show significant reduction of proliferation, spheroid formation, and xenograft tumor growth that correlates with the high sensitivity to the AR-antagonist Enzalutamide. Targeting HOXB13 acetylation mediated CRPC-SE establishment at critical tyrosine kinase genes could therefore have significant clinical implications in preventing PC recurrence.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE169132 | GEO | 2022/09/22

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The dynamic and reversible acetylation of proteins catalyzed by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) was discovered more than 2 decades ago and the enzymatic function of these enzymes are established as a major epigenetic regulatory mechanism of gene transcription. Thus, these epigenetic modifiers are involved in multiple diseases and represent attractive targets for therapeutic intervention. While HDAC inhibitors have been developed and approved by the FDA to treat certain cancers, progress on the development of drug-like HAT inhibitors has lagged. The HAT paralogs p300 and CBP (here called p300/CBP) are key transcriptional co-activators that are essential for a multitude of cellular processes and also implicated in human pathological conditions, including cancer. Current p300/CBP HAT domain inhibitors including natural products and bisubstrate analogs such as Lys-CoA either lack potency and selectivity or suffer from poor cellular permeability. C646 is widely utilized as a tool to inhibit p300/CBP HAT activity, but its off-target activity and reactivity may limit its cellular specificity. Here, we describe A-485 as a potent, selective and drug-like p300/CBP catalytic inhibitor. We show the first high resolution (1.95Å) co-crystal structure of a pharmacologically active small molecule (A-485) bound to the catalytic active site of p300 HAT domain and demonstrate that A-485 is an acetyl-CoA competitive inhibitor of p300/CBP. A-485 selectively inhibited proliferation across lineage-specific tumor types, including several hematological malignancies and androgen receptor-positive prostate cancer. A-485 robustly inhibited the androgen receptor transcriptional program in both androgen sensitive and castrate resistant prostate cancer and inhibited tumor growth in a castration resistant xenograft model. These results demonstrate the feasibility of selectively drugging the catalytic activity of histone acetyltransferases, provide the framework for delineating the enzymatic functions of HATs, and pave the way for the development of novel therapeutics targeting HAT activity.

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HOXB13 epigenome in castration-resistant prostate cancer

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