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Lipid degradation promotes prostate cancer cell survival

ABSTRACT: Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer and androgen receptor (AR) is the major driver of the disease. Here we show that Enoyl-CoA delta isomerase 2 (ECI2) is a novel AR-target that promotes prostate cancer cell survival. Increased ECI2 expression predicts mortality in prostate cancer patients (p=0.0086). ECI2 encodes for an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism, and we use multiple metabolite profiling platforms and RNA-seq to show that inhibition of ECI2 expression leads to decreased glucose utilization, accumulation of fatty acids and down-regulation of cell cycle related genes. In normal cells, decrease in fatty acid degradation is compensated by increased consumption of glucose, and here we demonstrate that prostate cancer cells are not able to respond to decreased fatty acid degradation. Instead, prostate cancer cells activate incomplete autophagy, which is followed by activation of the cell death response. Finally, we identified a clinically approved compound, perhexiline, which inhibits fatty acid degradation, and replicates the major findings for ECI2 knockdown. This work shows that prostate cancer cells require lipid degradation for survival and identifies a small molecule inhibitor with therapeutic potential.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE75035 | GEO | 2017/03/03

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA302270

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The androgen receptor (AR) is an androgen-activated nuclear receptor. The androgen signaling axis is critical in all stages of prostate cancer, although the mechanism by which it contributes to tumorigenesis remains unclear. Mutations in the AR have been detected in prostate tumors; one such mutant, E231G, exhibits increased ligand sensitivity in the presence of specific cofactors. Mice with prostate-specific expression of AR-E231G invariably develop prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) by 12 weeks, and metastatic prostate cancer by 52 weeks. To determine a potential mechanism of AR-driven tumorigenesis in AR-E231G mice, we compared gene expression profiles in prostates of 12 week old AR-E231G mice with another AR-variant mouse strain (AR-T857A) that does not develop tumors. Pathway classification of the 132 candidate genes differentially expressed in AR-E231G mouse prostates compared to AR-T857A mouse prostates revealed enrichment for groups important in prostate cancer, including “cancer,” “fatty acid metabolism” and “cell cycle” pathways. Two genes significantly upregulated in the AR-E231G model were Adm and Cited1. siRNA suppression of ADM and CITED1 expression by up to 63% and 79%, respectively, in LNCaP human prostate cancer cells, resulted in an approximate 1.8-fold increase in cell death. Cell proliferation was reduced by 35% when CITED1 mRNA expression was suppressed, but not significantly altered by ADM suppression. A gene signature set derived from this model was able to distinguish between primary Gleason grade 3 and Gleason grade 4 tumors (p=0.04237), and between human non-malignant and cancerous prostate in a test (p=0.02352) and validation cohort (p=7.53x10-9), highlighting the relevance of the AR-E231G model to the human disease. RNA was extracted from ventral prostate tissue from 12-week old AR-E231G and AR-T857A mice in FVB background. Pooled RNA from 3 mice per genotype were extracted using the RNeasy kit (Qiagen, Germantown, MD, USA), and 10 µg RNA was hybridized to a total of 2 Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 chip® microarrays. Microarray data was normalized by Robust Multiarray Averaging. Probes with expression changes were identified using a fold-change cut-off of log1.5. Normalized microarray data was analysed using Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA, Redwood City, CA, USA).

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