Project description:To decipher the contribution of WDR77 and p53 to androgen-responsive gene expression, effect of siRNA-mediated silencing of WDR77 and p53 on expression of androgen-dependent genes was studied. Human LNCaP prostate cancer cells were transfected with individual siRNA SmartPools targeting WDR77 or p53 or a non-targeting siRNA SmartPool. Forty-two hours after transfection, cells were treated with synthetic androgen R1881 (5nM) or vehicle. Three biological replicates were generated per treatment group. Forty-eight hours later, total RNA was isolated and processed for Illumina oligoarray analysis.
Project description:To decipher the contribution of WDR77 and p53 to androgen-responsive gene expression, effect of siRNA-mediated silencing of WDR77 and p53 on expression of androgen-dependent genes was studied.
Project description:Androgen receptor (AR) drives prostate cancer (CaP) even after androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) failed. Inhibiting AR’s transcription factor function to overcome acquired resistance to ADT is an attractive therapeutic avenue. However, which AR-coregulator interaction should be targeted is not clear, AR-coregulator complex higher order structures and stoichiometry are unknown, and how manipulating AR-coregulator interactions impacts the AR cistrome is not understood. Here, we examine interactions between AR and WD repeat 77 (WDR77, non-catalytic component of the methylosome complex), which are enriched in ADT-resistant CaP and mediate CaP cell survival. We performed CUT&RUN assays defined AR and WDR77 cistromes, the WDR77-dependence of the AR cistrome and the overlap between the AR and WDR77 cistromes in CaP cells.
Project description:Continued reliance on androgen receptor (AR) after androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has failed causes 35,000 American prostate cancer (CaP) deaths annually. AR’s transcriptional activity is an attractive target to overcome this acquired resistance but has been challenging to pursue. We demonstrate the therapeutic potential of disrupting interactions between AR and its coregulator WDR77. WDR77 stimulated growth of CaP cells and xenografts and its overexpression associated with worse patient survival. AR and WDR77 cistromes overlapped considerably, AR- and WDR77-bound genes correlated with aggressive CaP features, and the AR cistrome was reduced after WDR77 loss. We delineated direct interaction between WDR77 and AR, which when disrupted prevented AR-WDR77 complex formation, reduced AR DNA-binding and AR-dependent gene expression. Such disruption decreased cell proliferation to the same extent as ADT, and inhibited cell growth when ADT-resistant AR action was modelled and after ADT-resistance without impacting AR-negative CaP cells or benign cells. Blocking AR-WDR77 cooperation also delayed growth of organoids generated from patient-derived xenografts and fresh CaP specimens. Disrupting coregulator control over AR action may thus improve survival from ADT-resistant CaP.
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.
Project description:Analysis of gene expression in lung and prostate cancer cells expressing non-target (NT), p44/wdr77. or PRMT5 shRNA. Results provide important information on how p44/wdr77 and PRMT5 control cellular proliferation. Total RNA obtained from cells expressing NT, p44/wdr77, or PRMT5 shRNA.
Project description:To investigate the mechanisms of drug resistance and castration resistance in prostate cancer, we performed proteomic sequencing on androgen-dependent prostate cancer cells (LNCaP) and androgen-independent cells (AI) treated with enzalutamide.