Project description:RNA-sequencing from RWPE-Ctrl (empty vector control), RWPE-1-AR (transduced with androgen receptor cDNA), LNCaP-pcDNA3.1 (empty vector control), and LNCaP-ARhi (transfected with androgen receptor cDNA) cells treated with 0, 1, 10, or 100 nM DHT for 4 hours before RNA extraction. Biological triplicate samples from each cell line in all conditions were collected. Aim of the experiment was to study androgen regulated gene expression in nonmalignant and cancer cells.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of RWPE-1 cells stably expressing human androgen receptor (as described in Altintas et al., Mol Cell Endocrinol 2011) treated with a non-metabolisable androgen, R1881 RWPE-1-AR cells were treated with R1881 during 3h or 24h and compared to control not treated cells. Three independent cell culture experiments for each treatment condition (vehicle or R1881 for 3h and 24h).
Project description:ATAC-sequencing from RWPE-Ctrl (empty vector control), RWPE-1-AR (transduced with androgen receptor cDNA), LNCaP-pcDNA3.1 (empty vector control), and LNCaP-ARhi (transfected with androgen receptor cDNA) cells treated with 0, 1, 10, or 100 nM DHT for 2 hours before nuclei isolation. Biological duplicate samples from each cell line in all conditions were collected. Aim of the experiment was to study genomic effect of androgen receptor activation in nonmalignant and cancer cells.
Project description:Androgen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) regulates multiple pathways in both normal and prostate cancer cells. Androgen regulates diverse aspects of the AR life cycle, including its post-translational modification, but understanding how specific modifications influence AR activity has been mostly elusive. Here, we show that androgen regulates AR through a pathway mediated by the mono-ADP ribosyltransferase, Parp7. We show that Parp7 ADP-ribosylates AR on multiple cysteines, and that a subset of these sites mediates agonist-specific recruitment of the E3 ligase Dtx3L/Parp9. Tandem macrodomains in Parp9 selectively recognize ADP ribosylated AR, and Dtx3L/Parp9 affects expression of a subset of AR-regulated genes. Parp7, ADP-ribosylation of AR, and AR-Dtx3L/Parp9 complex assembly are inhibited by 60 Olaparib, a compound used clinically to inhibit poly-ADP-ribosyltransferases Parp1/2. Our study reveals the components of a new androgen signaling axis that uses a writer and reader of ADP-ribosylation to modulate AR activity.
Project description:Androgen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) regulates multiple pathways in both normal and prostate cancer cells. Androgen regulates diverse aspects of the AR life cycle, including its post-translational modification, but understanding how specific modifications influence AR activity has been mostly elusive. Here, we show that androgen regulates AR through a pathway mediated by the mono-ADP ribosyltransferase, Parp7. We show that Parp7 ADP-ribosylates AR on multiple cysteines, and that a subset of these sites mediates agonist-specific recruitment of the E3 ligase Dtx3L/Parp9. Tandem macrodomains in Parp9 selectively recognize ADP ribosylated AR, and Dtx3L/Parp9 affects expression of a subset of AR-regulated genes. Parp7, ADP-ribosylation of AR, and AR-Dtx3L/Parp9 complex assembly are inhibited by 60 Olaparib, a compound used clinically to inhibit poly-ADP-ribosyltransferases Parp1/2. Our study reveals the components of a new androgen signaling axis that uses a writer and reader of ADP-ribosylation to modulate AR activity.
Project description:Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in Canadian men and is the third cause of cancer mortality. PCa initiation and growth is driven by the androgen receptor (AR). AR is activated by androgens such as testosterone and controls prostatic cell proliferation and survival. We sought to characterize global AR signalling networks. We performed BioID proximity labeling proteomics in androgen-dependent LAPC4 cells to delineate AR protein interaction networks. We report the identification of 32 AR associated proteins in non-stimulated cells. Strikingly, the AR signalling network increased to 183 and 201 proteins, upon 24h or 72h androgenic stimulation, respectively. Among this group, we identified 215 proteins that were not previously reported as AR interactors. Interestingly, these AR associated proteins were previously reported to be involved in DNA metabolism, RNA processing and RNA polymerase II transcription. Moreover, we identified 44 transcription factors, such as the Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4), which was specifically revealed in androgen-stimulated cells. We determined that KLF4 acts as a repressor of AR target genes transcription in PCa cells. Taken together, our data report the largest high-confidence proximity networks for AR in PCa cells.
Project description:The spliced variant forms of androgen receptor (AR-Vs) have been identified recently in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) cell lines and clinical samples. Here we identified the cistrome and transcriptome landscape of AR-Vs in CRPC cell lines and determine the clinical significance of AR variants regulated gene.The AR variants binding sites can be identified in 22Rv1 cell line in the absence of androgen. Knocking down full-length AR (AR-FL) doesn't affect AR-Vs binding sites in genome-wide. A set of genes were identified to be regulated uniquely by AR-Vs, but not by AR-FL in androgen-depleted condition. Integrated analysis showed that some genes may be modulated by AR-Vs directly. Unsupervised clustering analysis demonstrated that AR variants gene signature can separate not only the benign and malignant prostate tissue, but also the localized prostate cancer and metastatic CRPC specimens. Some genes modulated uniquely by AR variants were also identified to correlate with the Gleason Pattern of prostate cancer and PSA failure. We conclude that AR spliced variants bind to DNA independent of full-length AR, and can modulate a unique set of genes which is not regulated by full-length AR in the absence of androgen. AR variants gene signature correlate with CRPC and prostate cnacer disease progress. Androgen receptor (AR) binding sites in human prostate cancer 22Rv1 cell lines were studied using ChIP-seq. ChIP enriched and input DNA were sequenced using Illumina HiSeq 2000.