期刊
CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH
卷 22, 期 17, 页码 4466-4477出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2901
关键词
-
类别
资金
- NCI [2R01 CA105304]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP79308]
- US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Prostate Cancer Research Program [E81XWH-11-1-0551]
- Chief Scientist's Office of the Scottish Government [ETM-258, ETM-382]
- Chief Scientist Office [ETM/258] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K20156] Funding Source: KAKEN
Purpose: Persistent androgen receptor (AR) transcriptional activity is clinically evident in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Therefore, AR remains as a viable therapeutic target for CRPC. All current hormonal therapies target the C-terminus ligand-binding domain (LBD) of AR. By using EPI to target AR activation function-1 (AF-1), in the N-terminal domain that is essential for AR transactivation, we evaluate the ability of EPI to overcome several clinically relevant AR-related mechanisms of resistance. Experimental Design: To study the effect of EPI on AR transcriptional activity against overexpressed coactivators, such as SRC1-3 and p300, luciferase reporter assays were performed using LNCaP cells. AR-negative COS-1 cells were employed for reporter assays to examine whether the length of polyglutamine tract affects inhibition by EPI. The effect of EPI on constitutively active AR splice variants was studied in LNCaP95 cells, which express AR-V7 variant. To evaluate the effect of EPI on the proliferation of LNCaP95 cells, we performed in vitro BrdUrd incorporation assay and in vivo studies using xenografts in mice. Results: EPI effectively overcame several molecular alterations underlying aberrant AR activity, including overexpressed coactivators, AR gain-of-function mutations, and constitutively active AR-V7. EPI inhibited AR transcriptional activity regardless of the length of polyglutamine tract. Importantly, EPI significantly inhibited the in vitro and in vivo proliferation of LNCaP95 prostate cancer cells, which are androgen independent and enzalutamide resistant. Conclusions: These findings support EPI as a promising therapeutic agent to treat CRPC, particularly against tumors driven by constitutively active AR splice variants that are resistant to LBD-targeting drugs. (C) 2016 AACR.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据