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ONCOGENE
卷 38, 期 24, 页码 4875-4884出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41388-019-0750-5
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB518304]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81802573, 81472682, 81772756]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin [17JCZDJC35300, 15JCZDJC35400, 15JCYBJC27200]
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with neuroendocrine differentiation (NED) is a lethal disease for which effective therapies are urgently needed. The mechanism underlying development of CRPC with NED, however, remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, we explored and characterized the functional role of neurotensin (NTS) in cell line and animal models of CRPC with NED. NTS was acutely induced by androgen deprivation in animal models of prostate cancer (PCa) and activated downstream signaling leading to NED through activation of neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1) and neurotensin receptor 3 (NTSR3), but not neurotensin receptor 2 (NTSR2). Our findings also revealed the existence of a CK8(+)/CK14(+) subpopulation in the LNCaP cell line that expresses high levels of both NTSR1 and NTSR3, and displays an enhanced susceptibility to develop neuroendocrine-like phenotypes upon treatment with NTS. More importantly, NTSR1 pathway inhibition prevented the development of NED and castration resistance in vivo. We propose a novel role of NTS in the development of CRPC with NED, and a possible strategy to prevent the onset of NED by targeting the NTS signaling pathway.
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