[HTML][HTML] Understanding and targeting prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity

DG Tang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent malignancy that occurs primarily in old males. Prostate
tumors in different patients manifest significant inter-patient heterogeneity with respect to …

Reversible epigenetic alterations mediate PSMA expression heterogeneity in advanced metastatic prostate cancer

E Sayar, RA Patel, IM Coleman, MP Roudier… - JCI …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an important cell surface target in prostate
cancer. There are limited data on the heterogeneity of PSMA tissue expression in metastatic …

Modeling prostate cancer: What does it take to build an ideal tumor model?

CW Mai, KY Chin, LC Foong, KL Pang, B Yu, Y Shu… - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is frequently characterized as a multifocal disease with great intratumoral
heterogeneity as well as a high propensity to metastasize to bone. Consequently, modeling …

Characterization of HOXB13 expression patterns in localized and metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer

RA Patel, E Sayar, I Coleman… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
HOXB13 is a key lineage homeobox transcription factor that plays a critical role in the
differentiation of the prostate gland. Several studies have suggested that HOXB13 …

The MURAL collection of prostate cancer patient-derived xenografts enables discovery through preclinical models of uro-oncology

GP Risbridger, AK Clark, LH Porter, R Toivanen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Preclinical testing is a crucial step in evaluating cancer therapeutics. We aimed to establish
a significant resource of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) of prostate cancer for rapid and …

Spatial gene expression analysis reveals characteristic gene expression patterns of de novo neuroendocrine prostate cancer coexisting with androgen receptor …

R Watanabe, N Miura, M Kurata, R Kitazawa… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neuroendocrine prostate carcinoma (NEPC) accounts for less than 1% of prostate
neoplasms and has extremely poorer prognosis than the typical androgen receptor pathway …

ASCL1-mediated ferroptosis resistance enhances the progress of castration-resistant prostate cancer to neurosecretory prostate cancer

J Nie, P Zhang, C Liang, Y Yu, X Wang - Free Radical Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a multi-resistant variant of prostate cancer (PCa)
that frequently emerges in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). NEPC is usually …

Plexin D1 emerges as a novel target in the development of neural lineage plasticity in treatment-resistant prostate cancer

B Chen, P Xu, JC Yang, C Nip, L Wang, Y Shen, S Ning… - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment-induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer (t-NEPC) often arises from
adenocarcinoma via lineage plasticity in response to androgen receptor signaling inhibitors …

Proteostasis perturbation of N-Myc leveraging HSP70 mediated protein turnover improves treatment of neuroendocrine prostate cancer

P Xu, JC Yang, B Chen, S Ning, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
N-Myc is a key driver of neuroblastoma and neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). One
potential way to circumvent the challenge of undruggable N-Myc is to target the protein …

The role of epigenetic change in therapy-induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer lineage plasticity

WK Storck, AM May, TC Westbrook, Z Duan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The androgen receptor (AR) signaling pathway is critical for growth and differentiation of
prostate cancer cells. For that reason, androgen deprivation therapy with medical or surgical …