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Public on Mar 17, 2012 |
Title |
Expression correlates of the full-length androgen receptor and its splicing variants |
Organism |
Homo sapiens |
Experiment type |
Expression profiling by array
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Summary |
Continued androgen receptor (AR) signaling is an established mechanism underlying castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), and suppression of AR signaling remains a therapeutic goal of CRPC therapy. Constitutively active androgen receptor splicing variants (AR-Vs) lack the AR ligand-binding domain (AR-LBD), the intended target of androgen deprivation therapies (ADT) including new CRPC therapies such as abiraterone and MDV3100. While the canonical full-length AR (AR-FL) and AR-Vs are both increased in CRPC, their expression regulation, associated transcriptional programs, functional relationships, and respective roles in mediating responses to endocrine therapies have not been dissected. In this study, we show that suppression of canonical AR-FL signaling by targeting AR-LBD leads to increased AR-V expression in two cell line models of CRPC. Importantly, treatment-induced AR-Vs activate a distinct expression signature enriched for cell cycle genes without requiring the presence of AR-FL. Conversely, activation of AR-FL signaling suppresses the AR-V signature but activates expression programs mainly associated with macromolecular synthesis, metabolism, and differentiation. In prostate cancer cells and CRPC xenografts treated with MDV3100 and abiraterone, increased expression of two constitutively active AR-Vs, AR-V7 and ARV567ES, but not AR-FL, parallels increased expression of the AR-driven cell cycle gene UBE2C. In addition, protein expression of AR-V7, but not AR-FL, is positively correlated with UBE2C in clinical CRPC specimens. The cumulative in vitro and in vivo evidence support an adaptive shift toward AR-V-mediated signaling in at least a subset of CRPC tumors as the AR-LBD is rendered inactive, suggesting an important mechanism contributing to drug resistance to CRPC therapies.
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Overall design |
LNCaP cells lacking AR-V were transfected with AR-V7 with or without androgen stimulation of AR-FL (4 conditions); LNCaP95 cells expressing AR-Vs were treated with control siRNA or siRNA trageting AR-LBD or AR-DBD, with or without androgen stimulation of AR-FL (6 conditions); VCaP cells expressing AR-Vs in the presence of androgen were treated with control siRNA, siRNA trageting AR-LBD, DMSO or MDV3100 to inhibit AR-FL (4 conditions). Total 14 arrays with no replicates.
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Contributor(s) |
Luo J |
Citation(s) |
22710436 |
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Submission date |
Mar 15, 2012 |
Last update date |
Feb 22, 2018 |
Contact name |
Jun Luo |
E-mail(s) |
jluo1@jhmi.edu
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Organization name |
Johns Hopkins University
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Street address |
600 N Wolfe st
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City |
baltimore |
State/province |
MD |
ZIP/Postal code |
21287 |
Country |
USA |
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Platforms (1) |
GPL4133 |
Agilent-014850 Whole Human Genome Microarray 4x44K G4112F (Feature Number version) |
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Samples (14)
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Relations |
BioProject |
PRJNA153421 |
Supplementary file |
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Download |
File type/resource |
GSE36549_RAW.tar |
216.7 Mb |
(http)(custom) |
TAR (of TXT) |
Processed data included within Sample table |
Processed data provided as supplementary file |
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