Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying prostate cancer development: therapeutic implications

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Medicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequent nonskin cancer and second most common cause of
cancer-related deaths in man. Prostate cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease with …

Therapy considerations in neuroendocrine prostate cancer: what next?

H Beltran, F Demichelis - Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2021 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Lineage plasticity and histologic transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer
(NEPC) is an increasingly recognized mechanism of treatment resistance in advanced …

Chromatin profiles classify castration-resistant prostate cancers suggesting therapeutic targets

F Tang, D Xu, S Wang, CK Wong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), the loss of androgen receptor (AR)
dependence leads to clinically aggressive tumors with few therapeutic options. We used …

The role of lineage plasticity in prostate cancer therapy resistance

H Beltran, A Hruszkewycz, HI Scher, J Hildesheim… - Clinical cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Lineage plasticity has emerged as an important mechanism of treatment resistance in
prostate cancer. Treatment-refractory prostate cancers are increasingly associated with loss …

ONECUT2 is a targetable master regulator of lethal prostate cancer that suppresses the androgen axis

M Rotinen, S You, J Yang, SG Coetzee… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment of prostate cancer (PC) by androgen suppression promotes the
emergence of aggressive variants that are androgen receptor (AR) independent. Here we …

The 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of prostate cancer

M Sjöström, SG Zhao, S Levy, M Zhang, Y Ning… - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
Abstract Analysis of DNA methylation is a valuable tool to understand disease progression
and is increasingly being used to create diagnostic and prognostic clinical biomarkers …

Integrative multi‐omics analysis of intestinal organoid differentiation

RGH Lindeboom, L van Voorthuijsen… - Molecular systems …, 2018 - embopress.org
Intestinal organoids accurately recapitulate epithelial homeostasis in vivo, thereby
representing a powerful in vitro system to investigate lineage specification and cellular …

Targeting SPINK1 in the damaged tumour microenvironment alleviates therapeutic resistance

F Chen, Q Long, D Fu, D Zhu, Y Ji, L Han… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Chemotherapy and radiation not only trigger cancer cell apoptosis but also damage stromal
cells in the tumour microenvironment (TME), inducing a senescence-associated secretory …

Control of cell identity by the nuclear receptor HNF4 in organ pathophysiology

V Dubois, B Staels, P Lefebvre, MP Verzi, J Eeckhoute - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4 (HNF4) is a transcription factor (TF) belonging to the nuclear
receptor family whose expression and activities are restricted to a limited number of organs …

Nucleosome patterns in circulating tumor DNA reveal transcriptional regulation of advanced prostate cancer phenotypes

N De Sarkar, RD Patton, AL Doebley, B Hanratty… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Advanced prostate cancers comprise distinct phenotypes, but tumor classification remains
clinically challenging. Here, we harnessed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to study tumor …