Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer

MC Haffner, W Zwart, MP Roudier, LD True… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
From a clinical, morphological and molecular perspective, prostate cancer is a
heterogeneous disease. Primary prostate cancers are often multifocal, having …

Tumor microenvironment heterogeneity an important mediator of prostate cancer progression and therapeutic resistance

R Ge, Z Wang, L Cheng - NPJ precision oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity, which poses a major
challenge to precision therapy and drug development. In this review, we discuss how …

Lineage plasticity in prostate cancer depends on JAK/STAT inflammatory signaling

JM Chan, S Zaidi, JR Love, JL Zhao, M Setty… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Drug resistance in cancer is often linked to changes in tumor cell state or lineage, but the
molecular mechanisms driving this plasticity remain unclear. Using murine organoid and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Antiandrogen treatment induces stromal cell reprogramming to promote castration resistance in prostate cancer

H Wang, N Li, Q Liu, J Guo, Q Pan, B Cheng, J Xu… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Lineage plasticity causes therapeutic resistance; however, it remains unclear how the fate
conversion and phenotype switching of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are implicated …

[PDF][PDF] 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** …

Inter-and intra-tumor heterogeneity of metastatic prostate cancer determined by digital spatial gene expression profiling

L Brady, M Kriner, I Coleman, C Morrissey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) comprises a spectrum of diverse phenotypes. However,
the extent of inter-and intra-tumor heterogeneity is not established. Here we use digital …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal evolution reveals bifurcated lineages in aggressive neuroendocrine small cell prostate cancer trans-differentiation

CC Chen, W Tran, K Song, T Sugimoto, MB Obusan… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Trans-differentiation from an adenocarcinoma to a small cell neuroendocrine state is
associated with therapy resistance in multiple cancer types. To gain insight into the …

ASCL1 activates neuronal stem cell-like lineage programming through remodeling of the chromatin landscape in prostate cancer

S Nouruzi, D Ganguli, N Tabrizian, M Kobelev… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) in prostate cancer
leads to the emergence of resistant tumors characterized by lineage plasticity and …

An androgen receptor switch underlies lineage infidelity in treatment-resistant prostate cancer

A Davies, S Nouruzi, D Ganguli, T Namekawa… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancers adapt to increasingly potent targeted therapies by reprogramming their phenotype.
Here we investigated such a phenomenon in prostate cancer, in which tumours can escape …