Androgen receptor variant 7 non-canonical genome integrity functions in prostate cancer
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE214332 | GEO | 2023/01/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:The androgen receptor splice variant 7 (AR-V7) lacks the ligand-binding domain; is detected with increased frequency in advanced prostate cancer and is postulated to be one crucial mechanism for disease progression and therapeutic resistance to androgen deprivation in castration–resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Targeting AR-V7 or unique downstream targets could provide novel therapeutic approaches for CRPC. Here, we report that, independent of ligand, AR-V7 binds not only to the androgen-responsive element (ARE) sites inducing canonical AR signaling but also to non-canonical target sites where ligand-stimulated full-length AR (AR-FL) does not bind. These AR-V7 “solo” binding sites are mainly found at gene promoters and are co-occupied by a zinc-finger transcription factor ZFX and the co-activator BRD4, both of which physically interact with AR-V7. Consequently, AR-V7 not only recapitulates AR-FL action without androgen but uniquely regulates transcripts correlating with AR-V7 expression in the TCGA prostate cancer cohort. Mechanistically, ZFX appears to function as a pioneer factor for AR-V7 at solo-binding sites and BRD4 inhibitors but not anti-androgens suppress AR-V7 action at solo-binding sites as well as AR-V7-dependent growth. Additionally, knockdown of ZFX, or two downstream targets uniquely co-activated by AR-V7 (ZNF32 and FZD6), also suppressed growth of AR-V7-dependent CRPC cells. AR-V7 directly activated genes differentiate tumor from normal prostate tissues and predict poor prognosis in patients. Thus AR-V7 has both canonical and non-canonical regulatory functions in CRPC, which may provide new therapeutic avenues.
2018-10-02 | GSE94013 | GEO
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.
2014-09-03 | E-GEOD-56701 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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.
2014-09-03 | GSE56701 | GEO
Project description:Since its discovery, there has been one central issue of significant clinical relevance related to expression of the truncated androgen receptor splice variant-7 (AR-v7), which lacks the C-terminal ligand binding domain and thus acquires ligand-independent transcriptional activity in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). That question is whether AR-v7 is simply a marker of enhanced AR transcriptional activity characteristic of resistance to 2nd generation androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSi) like Abiraterone and Enzalutamide, or whether it drives lethal resistance to ARSi. To address this question, the present study utilized 4 independently derived CRPC patient-derived xenografts in which the genetic and phenotypic changes could be followed before and after the development of ARSi resistance. This allowed evaluation of the correlation between acquired resistance to ARSi and changes in the expression levels of full length AR (AR-FL) vs. AR-v7 during this process. The combined results document that elevated expression of AR-FL alone is sufficient for Abiraterone- but not Enzalutamide-resistance. This is true even if AR-FL has a gain-of-function mutation. Furthermore, Enzalutamide-resistance is consistently correlated with the acquisition of AR-v7 expression. To directly test the requirement for AR-v7 expression in ARSi-refractory CRPC, CRISPR-Cas9 knockout of AR-FL and/or AR-v7 in LNCaP-95 cells was performed to evaluate in vitro and in vivo growth responses. These results document that AR-v7 drives Enzalutamide-resistance and focuses the critical need to develop therapeutic options to prevent and/or inhibit AR-v7 driven lethal progression of CRPC.
2020-10-11 | GSE149433 | GEO
Project description:Liquid biopsies have demonstrated that the constitutively active androgen receptor splice variant-7 (AR-V7) associates with reduced response and overall survival (OS) from endocrine therapies in castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, these studies provide little information pertaining to AR-V7 biology and expression in prostate cancer (PC) tissue. Following generation and validation of a novel AR-V7 antibody for immunohistochemistry (IHC); nuclear AR-V7 protein expression was determined for 358 primary prostate samples (358 patients) and 293 metastatic biopsies (194 patients). Associations with disease progression, nuclear AR full length (AR-FL) expression, response to abiraterone and/or enzalutamide, and gene signatures (from three independent cohorts) was determined.
2018-10-19 | GSE118435 | GEO
Project description:The androgen receptor (AR) signaling remains the key therapeutic target in metastatic prostate cancer (PCa). However, development of castration resistant PCa is frequently observed and can be in part attributed to the expression of mutant AR variants, which lack the ligand binding domain and are thus constitutively active. These constitutive AR variants have been associated with castration resistance but also with tumor progression. However, little data is available regarding their transcriptional activities. In this study, we depicted the transcriptional landscapes of the two constitutive AR variants AR-Q641X and AR-V7 by whole transcriptome sequencing and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis.
2020-11-01 | GSE158557 | GEO
Project description:The purpose of this study was to characterize the downstream transcriptomic effects of ARVib-mediated degradation of AR/AR-V7, particularly in attenuating AR/AR-V7 target gene expression in prostate cancer cells. Towards this goal, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based gene expression profiling (RNA-Sequencing; RNA-Seq) was performed on castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) C4-2B MDVR cells that were treated with vehicle control or one of the AR/AR-V7 inhibitors (ARVib), ARVib-7 or ARVib-31.
2021-08-22 | GSE158556 | GEO
Project description:CRPC remains AR dependent. There are multiple mechanisms for reactivation of AR including expression of constitutively active AR splices variant AR-V7 (AR3). Earlier studies suggest that though the variants regulate many of the same genes as AR, they also have unique targets. Another argument is that the variant is a “weak” AR. We have used an LNCaP cell line that expresses AR-V7 in response to doxycycline (LNCaP AR-V7) to compare the activities of the two isoforms and to identify differential regulation of target genes. We also used VCaP cell line that expresses AR-V7 in response to doxycycline (VCaP AR-V7) to validate the activities of the two isoforms in an alternative prostate cancer cell line. The transcriptomes for AR and AR-V7 in these cell lines were identified using RNA-Seq.
2021-01-21 | GSE143905 | GEO
Project description:Continued androgen receptor (AR) signaling is an established mechanism underlying castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), and suppression of AR signaling remains a therapeutic goal of CRPC therapy. Constitutively active androgen receptor splicing variants (AR-Vs) lack the AR ligand-binding domain (AR-LBD), the intended target of androgen deprivation therapies (ADT) including new CRPC therapies such as abiraterone and MDV3100. While the canonical full-length AR (AR-FL) and AR-Vs are both increased in CRPC, their expression regulation, associated transcriptional programs, functional relationships, and respective roles in mediating responses to endocrine therapies have not been dissected. In this study, we show that suppression of canonical AR-FL signaling by targeting AR-LBD leads to increased AR-V expression in two cell line models of CRPC. Importantly, treatment-induced AR-Vs activate a distinct expression signature enriched for cell cycle genes without requiring the presence of AR-FL. Conversely, activation of AR-FL signaling suppresses the AR-V signature but activates expression programs mainly associated with macromolecular synthesis, metabolism, and differentiation. In prostate cancer cells and CRPC xenografts treated with MDV3100 and abiraterone, increased expression of two constitutively active AR-Vs, AR-V7 and ARV567ES, but not AR-FL, parallels increased expression of the AR-driven cell cycle gene UBE2C. In addition, protein expression of AR-V7, but not AR-FL, is positively correlated with UBE2C in clinical CRPC specimens. The cumulative in vitro and in vivo evidence support an adaptive shift toward AR-V-mediated signaling in at least a subset of CRPC tumors as the AR-LBD is rendered inactive, suggesting an important mechanism contributing to drug resistance to CRPC therapies. LNCaP cells lacking AR-V were transfected with AR-V7 with or without androgen stimulation of AR-FL (4 conditions); LNCaP95 cells expressing AR-Vs were treated with control siRNA or siRNA trageting AR-LBD or AR-DBD, with or without androgen stimulation of AR-FL (6 conditions); VCaP cells expressing AR-Vs in the presence of androgen were treated with control siRNA, siRNA trageting AR-LBD, DMSO or MDV3100 to inhibit AR-FL (4 conditions). Total 14 arrays with no replicates.
2012-03-17 | E-GEOD-36549 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:CRPC remains AR dependent. There are multiple mechanisms for reactivation of AR including expression of constitutively active AR splices variant AR-V7 (AR3). Earlier studies suggest that though the variants regulate many of the same genes as AR, they also have unique targets. Another argument is that the variant is a “weak” AR. We have used an LNCaP cell line that expresses AR-V7 in response to doxycycline to compare DNA interactions of the two isoforms and to identify differential regulation of target genes. ChIP-exo method was used to map AR and AR-V7 interaction with DNA in LNCaP engineered cell line (LNCaP AR-V7) at single base resolution.
2021-07-07 | GSE143906 | GEO