Project description:Androgen deprivation is a standard of care front-line therapy for human prostate cancer, however, majority of patients will eventally develop resistance to androgen deprivation. In this study, using a human prostate cancer xenograft model -LuCaP35, we examiend the gene expression changes after castration.
Project description:Androgen deprivation is a standard of care front-line therapy for human prostate cancer, however, majority of patients will eventally develop resistance to androgen deprivation. In this study, using a human prostate cancer xenograft model -LuCaP35, we examiend the gene expression changes after castration. We compare the gene expression of 5 LuCaP35 xenografts from non-treated mice (Control), and 5 androgen-deprived LuCaP35 xenografts from castrated mice (Castration).
Project description:Comprehensive molecular cancer studies have extensively characterized most primary and some metastatic tumor types over the last decade. In prostate cancer, the most common tumor type in men, genomic studies have been most notably conducted for primary and metastatic tumors that had progressed under androgen deprivation therapies (ADT) to castration-resistant disease (CRPC). More recent studies have also looked at genetic alterations in a smaller number of prostate cancers frequently associated with neuroendocrine trans-differentiation. For this tumor type, it’s becoming clear that the complexity of genomic alterations does not allow an accurate assessment of the transformed phenotype. To overcome these hurdles, we show in patient-derived xenograft models how disease progression emerges at single-cell resolution and how pharmacologic perturbation can revert this process. Given this approach, we were able to investigate disease progression and androgen independence at single cell level: in our xenograft models, we show how tumor cell subpopulation progress along the trajectory from androgen-sensitive to insensitive disease.
Project description:To identify molecular singnal alterations between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer, we performed interspecies comparative microarray analyses using RNAs prepared from uncastrasion and castration tumor from LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer. microarray data from uncastrasion and castration tumor revealed that the gene expression profile is most significantly altered in between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer. Comparative analyses of LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer showed that genes involved in androgen dependent and androgen independent tumor were significantly altered. We prepared RNA samples from 4 samples uncastrasion and 4 samples castration tumors from LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer . High-quality RNA samples were subjected to microarray analysis using the Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST platform, and only those results that passed examinations for quality assurance and quality control of the Human Gene 2.0 ST arrays were retrieved. In total, we obtained gene expression profiles from the following samples: 4 samples uncastrasion and 4 samples castration tumors
Project description:To identify molecular singnal alterations between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer, we performed interspecies comparative microarray analyses using RNAs prepared from uncastrasion and castration tumor from LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer. microarray data from uncastrasion and castration tumor revealed that the gene expression profile is most significantly altered in between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer. Comparative analyses of LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer showed that genes involved in androgen dependent and androgen independent tumor were significantly altered.
Project description:Resistance to androgen deprivation therapies leads to metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) of adenocarcinoma (AdCa) origin that can transform to emergent aggressive variant prostate cancer (AVPC) which has neuroendocrine (NE)-like features. To this end, we used LuCaP patient-derived xenograft (PDX) tumors, clinically relevant models that reflects and retains key features of the tumor from advanced prostate cancer patients. Here we performed proteome and phosphoproteome characterization of 48 LuCaP PDX tumors and identified over 94,000 peptides and 9,700 phosphopeptides corresponding to 7,738 proteins. When we compared 15 NE versus 33 AdCa PDX samples, we identified 309 unique proteins and 476 unique phosphopeptides that were significantly altered and corresponded to proteins that are known to distinguish these two phenotypes. Assessment of protein and RNA concordance from these tumors revealed increased dissonance in transcriptionally regulated proteins in NE and metabolite interconversion enzymes in AdCa.
Keywords: Proteomics, phosphoproteomics, Neuroendocrine, Adenocarcinoma, biomarkers, surfaceome, secretome, blood proteins, prostate cancer, patient-derived xenograft
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have recently been associated with the development and progression of a variety of human cancers. However, to date, the interplay between known oncogenic or tumor suppressive events and lncRNAs has not been well described. Here the novel lncRNA, Prostate Cancer-Associated Transcript 29 (PCAT29), is characterized along with its relationship to the androgen receptor (AR). PCAT29 is suppressed by dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and up-regulated upon castration therapy in a prostate cancer xenograft model. PCAT29 knockdown significantly increased proliferation and migration of prostate cancer cells, while PCAT29 overexpression conferred the opposite effect and suppressed growth and metastases of prostate tumors in chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assays. Finally, in prostate cancer patient specimens, low PCAT29 expression correlated with poor prognostic outcomes. Taken together, these data expose PCAT29 as an androgen regulated tumor suppressor in prostate cancer PCAT29 was knockdown using shRNA in two prostate cancer cell lines VCaP and LNCaP.
Project description:Although the vital role of the androgen receptor (AR) has been well demonstrated in primary prostate cancers, its role in the androgen-insensitive prostate cancers still remains unclear. Here, we used a small hairpin RNA approach to directly assess AR activity in prostate cancer cells. Reduction of AR expression in the two androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cell lines, LNCaP and LAPC4, significantly decreased AR-mediated transcription and cell growth. Intriguingly, in two androgen-insensitive prostate cell lines, LNCaP-C42B4 and CWR22Rv1, knockdown of AR expression showed a more pronounced effect on AR-induced transcription and cell growth than androgen depletion. Using cDNA microarrays, we also compared the transcriptional profiles induced by either androgen depletion or AR knockdown. Although a significant number of transcripts appear to be regulated by both androgen depletion and AR knockdown, we observed a subset of transcripts affected only by androgen depletion but not by AR knockdown, and vice versa. Finally, we demonstrated a direct role for AR in promoting tumor formation and growth in a xenograft model. Taken together, our results elucidate an important role for the AR in androgen-insensitive prostate cancer cells, and suggest that AR can be used as a therapeutic target for androgen-insensitive prostate cancers.
Project description:The ligand-activated androgen receptor is a transcription factor that drives prostate cancer growth. Blocking androgen-activation of androgen receptor via androgen deprivation therapy is the default treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. Despite initial remissions, androgen deprivation invariably fails and prostate cancer progresses to castration-recurrent disease, which still relies on aberrantly activated androgen receptor. Alternative approaches are needed to inhibit androgen receptor action in prostate cancer that has failed androgen deprivation therapy. Our laboratory has been exploring the therapeutic potential of a non-canonical androgen receptor signaling mechanism wherein androgen receptor stimulates another transcription factor, Serum Response Factor. Serum Response Factor-mediated androgen receptor action correlates with prostate cancer progression and is enriched in castration-recurrent prostate cancer. Inhibiting Serum Response Factor-dependent androgen receptor action may be an effective treatment strategy following failure of androgen deprivation therapy but remains poorly understood. We have recently isolated UPF1 and RCOR1 as putative novel mediators of Serum Response Factor-dependent androgen receptor action. Here, we perform RNA-Seq assays to determine the contribution of UPF1 and RCOR1 to the androgen response of prostate cancer cells.