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Project description:Despite recent therapeutic advances, prostate cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death. A subset of castration resistant prostate cancers become androgen receptor (AR) signaling-independent and develop neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) features through lineage plasticity. These NEPC tumors, associated with aggressive disease and poor prognosis, are driven, in part, by aberrant expression of N-Myc, through mechanisms that remain unclear. Integrative analysis of the N-Myc transcriptome, cistrome and interactome using in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo models (including patient-derived organoids) identified a lineage switch towards a neural identity associated with epigenetic reprogramming. N-Myc and known AR-co-factors (e.g., FOXA1 and HOXB13) overlapped, independently of AR, at genomic loci implicated in neural lineage specification. Moreover, histone marks specifically associated with lineage-defining genes were reprogrammed by N-Myc. We also demonstrated that the N-Myc-induced molecular program accurately classifies our cohort of patients with advanced prostate cancer. Finally, we revealed the potential for EZH2 inhibition to reverse the N-Myc-induced suppression of epithelial lineage genes. Altogether, our data provide insights on how N-Myc regulates lineage plasticity and epigenetic reprogramming associated with lineage-specification. The N-Myc signature we defined could also help predict the evolution of prostate cancer and thus better guide the choice of future therapeutic strategies.
| S-EPMC6715370 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Despite recent advances in highly effective androgen receptor (AR)-directed therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer, a significant subset of patients with resistant disease develop AR-null, androgen signaling-indifferent neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). A majority of these NEPC cases that arise following anti-androgen therapy are driven by the aberrant expression of the transcription factor N-Myc. To define the cell lineage states associated with the development of prostate cancer resistance phenotypes, we analyzed whole transcriptome data from a cohort of primary and metastatic tumors compared to benign tissues. NEPC tumors are significantly enriched for stem cell genes associated with embryonic and neural crest lineages, as well as for neural lineage-defining genes. Analysis of the N-Myc transcriptome, cistrome and chromatin-bound interactome using in vivo (GEMM and human xenografts), in vitro (human prostate cancer cell lines) and ex vivo models (NEPC-patient-derived organoids) revealed that the N-Myc cistrome is androgen-dependent and drives a transcriptional program that leads to epithelial plasticity and the acquisition of clinically-relevant neural lineage markers. Moreover, we show that histone marks specifically associated with lineage-defining genes are epigenetically reprogrammed by N-Myc. Finally, we demonstrate how N-Myc-induced gene expression and epigenetic changes can accurately classify patients with advanced prostate cancer which may provide a molecular signature to inform future therapeutic strategies.
2019-08-26 | GSE117305 | GEO
Project description:Despite recent advances in highly effective androgen receptor (AR)-directed therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer, a significant subset of patients with resistant disease develop AR-null, androgen signaling-indifferent neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). A majority of these NEPC cases that arise following anti-androgen therapy are driven by the aberrant expression of the transcription factor N-Myc. To define the cell lineage states associated with the development of prostate cancer resistance phenotypes, we analyzed whole transcriptome data from a cohort of primary and metastatic tumors compared to benign tissues. NEPC tumors are significantly enriched for stem cell genes associated with embryonic and neural crest lineages, as well as for neural lineage-defining genes. Analysis of the N-Myc transcriptome, cistrome and chromatin-bound interactome using in vivo (GEMM and human xenografts), in vitro (human prostate cancer cell lines) and ex vivo models (NEPC-patient-derived organoids) revealed that the N-Myc cistrome is androgen-dependent and drives a transcriptional program that leads to epithelial plasticity and the acquisition of clinically-relevant neural lineage markers. Moreover, we show that histone marks specifically associated with lineage-defining genes are epigenetically reprogrammed by N-Myc. Finally, we demonstrate how N-Myc-induced gene expression and epigenetic changes can accurately classify patients with advanced prostate cancer which may provide a molecular signature to inform future therapeutic strategies.
2019-08-26 | GSE117304 | GEO
Project description:N-Myc-mediated epigenetic reprogramming drives lineage plasticity in advanced prostate cancer
| PRJNA481735 | ENA
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| PRJNA481737 | ENA
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| PRJNA481738 | ENA
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2024-04-22 | GSE232552 | GEO
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