Tumor cell plasticity in targeted therapy-induced resistance: mechanisms and new strategies

ZD Shi, K Pang, ZX Wu, Y Dong, L Hao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment, therapy-induced resistance
remains a major obstacle to a complete cure. Tumor cells evade treatments and relapse via …

Molecular events in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development

Y Wang, Y Wang, X Ci, SYC Choi, F Crea, D Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a lethal subtype of prostate cancer. NEPC arises
de novo only rarely; the disease predominantly develops from adenocarcinoma in response …

FOXA2 drives lineage plasticity and KIT pathway activation in neuroendocrine prostate cancer

M Han, F Li, Y Zhang, P Dai, J He, Y Li, Y Zhu, J Zheng… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Prostate cancer adeno-to-neuroendocrine lineage transition has emerged as a mechanism
of targeted therapeutic resistance. Identifying the direct molecular drivers and develo** …

Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance

S Deng, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu, X Li, NA Johnson… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers can gain resistance to targeted therapies
by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations …

ARID1A loss induces polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cell chemotaxis and promotes prostate cancer progression

N Li, Q Liu, Y Han, S Pei, B Cheng, J Xu, X Miao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic inflammation and an immunosuppressive microenvironment promote prostate
cancer (PCa) progression and diminish the response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) …

Aggressive variants of prostate cancer: underlying mechanisms of neuroendocrine transdifferentiation

L Merkens, V Sailer, D Lessel, E Janzen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Prostate cancer is a hormone-driven disease and its tumor cell growth highly relies on
increased androgen receptor (AR) signaling. Therefore, targeted therapy directed against …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes promote tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

FJ de Miguel, C Gentile, WW Feng, SJ Silva, A Sankar… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as osimertinib used to treat
EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas, limits long-term efficacy and is frequently caused by …

Loss and revival of androgen receptor signaling in advanced prostate cancer

N Formaggio, MA Rubin, JP Theurillat - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Targeting the androgen receptor (AR) signaling axis has been, over decades, the mainstay
of prostate cancer therapy. More potent inhibitors of androgen synthesis and antiandrogens …

Going beyond Polycomb: EZH2 functions in prostate cancer

SH Park, KW Fong, E Mong, MC Martin, GE Schiltz… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Polycomb group (PcG) protein Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) is one of
the three core subunits of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). It harbors histone …

Single-cell ATAC and RNA sequencing reveal pre-existing and persistent cells associated with prostate cancer relapse

S Taavitsainen, N Engedal, S Cao, F Handle… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is heterogeneous and patients would benefit from methods that stratify those
who are likely to respond to systemic therapy. Here, we employ single-cell assays for …