Emerging roles for UDP-glucuronosyltransferases in drug resistance and cancer progression

EP Allain, M Rouleau, E Lévesque… - British journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
The best-known role of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes (UGTs) in cancer is the
metabolic inactivation of drug therapies. By conjugating glucuronic acid to lipophilic drugs …

Hormonal therapy for prostate cancer

K Desai, JM McManus, N Sharifi - Endocrine reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Huggins and Hodges demonstrated the therapeutic effect of gonadal testosterone
deprivation in the 1940s and therefore firmly established the concept that prostate cancer is …

ONECUT2 acts as a lineage plasticity driver in adenocarcinoma as well as neuroendocrine variants of prostate cancer

C Qian, Q Yang, M Rotinen, R Huang… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Androgen receptor-(AR-) indifference is a mechanism of resistance to hormonal
therapy in prostate cancer (PC). Here we demonstrate that ONECUT2 (OC2) activates …

BMX controls 3βHSD1 and sex steroid biosynthesis in cancer

X Li, M Berk, C Goins, M Alyamani… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Prostate cancer is highly dependent on androgens and the androgen receptor (AR).
Hormonal therapies inhibit gonadal testosterone production, block extragonadal androgen …

Long acting injectables for the treatment of prostate cancer

D Modi, MS Hussain, S Ainampudi… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer ranks as one of the most diagnosed and challenging malignancies affecting
individuals worldwide. For hormone-dependent prostate cancer treatment Gonadotropin …

Cancer-associated fibroblast-secreted glucosamine alters the androgen biosynthesis program in prostate cancer via HSD3B1 upregulation

D Cui, J Li, Z Zhu, M Berk, A Hardaway… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
After androgen deprivation, prostate cancer frequently becomes castration resistant (CRPC),
with intratumoral androgen production from extragonadal precursors that activate the …

Sex hormones and prostate cancer

RJ Auchus, N Sharifi - Annual review of medicine, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The prostate is an androgen-dependent organ that develops only in male mammals.
Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin malignancy in men and the second leading …

Androgen drives melanoma invasiveness and metastatic spread by inducing tumorigenic fucosylation

Q Liu, E Adhikari, DK Lester, B Fang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Melanoma incidence and mortality rates are historically higher for men than women.
Although emerging studies have highlighted tumorigenic roles for the male sex hormone …

Androgens in prostate cancer: A tale that never ends

Z Hou, S Huang, Z Li - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Androgens play an essential role in prostate cancer. Clinical treatments that target
steroidogenesis and the androgen receptor (AR) successfully postpone disease …

The UGTome: The expanding diversity of UDP glycosyltransferases and its impact on small molecule metabolism

DG Hu, PC Nair, AZ Haines, RA McKinnon… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The UDP glycosyltransferase (UGT) superfamily of enzymes is responsible for the
metabolism and clearance of thousands of lipophilic chemicals including drugs, toxins and …