Project description:Background: Abiraterone (Abi) is an androgen receptor signaling inhibitor that significantly improves patients' life expectancy in metastatic prostate cancer (PCa). Despite its beneficial effects, many patients have baseline or acquired resistance against Abi. Objective: To identify predictive serum biomarkers for Abi treatment. Design, setting, and participants: We performed a comparative proteome analysis on three Abi sensitive (LNCaPabl, LAPC4, DuCaP) and resistant (LNCaPabl-Abi, LAPC4-Abi, DuCaP-Abi) PCa cell lines using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) technique. Two bioinformatic selection methods were applied to select the most promising candidate serum markers. Serum levels of selected proteins were assessed in samples of 100 Abi-treated patients with metastatic castration-resistant disease using ELISA. Moreover, FSCN1 serum concentrations were measured in samples of 69 Docetaxel (Doc) treated mCRPC patients. Outcome measurements and statistical analysis: Serum levels were correlated with patients‘ clinicopathological parameters and survival. Results and limitations: Our proteome analysis identified 68 significantly, at least two-fold upregulated proteins in Abi resistant cells. Using two filtering methods four proteins (AMACR, KLK2, FSCN1 and CTAG1A) were selected for ELISA analyses. We found high baseline FSCN1 serum levels to be significantly associated with poor survival in Abi-treated mCRPC patients. Moreover, the multivariable analysis revealed that higher ECOG status (>1) and high baseline FSCN1 serum levels (>10.22 ng/ml by ROC cut-off) were independently associated with worse survival in Abi-treated patients (p<0.001 and p=0.021, respectively). In contrast, no association was found between serum FSCN1 concentrations and overall survival in Doc-treated patients. Conclusions: Our analysis identified baseline FSCN1 serum levels to be independently associated with poor survival of Abi-treated, but not Doc-treated mCRPC patients, suggesting a therapy specific prognostic value for FSCN1. Patient summary: In this study, we identified serum FSCN1 as a marker that may help to predict PCa patients who derive less benefit from Abi but not Doc treatment.
Project description:LAPC4 cells were starved for 2 days and stimulated with 1µM 5α-Abi or 0.1nM DHT. Gene expression profiles are detected to determine the effect of 5a-Abi on prostate cancer cell line.
Project description:Gene expression profile of LSK-enriched population of hematopoietic progenitor cells from Abi-1 KO mice indicates activation of the NFκB pathway. In this dataset, we include the expression data obtained from Lineage-, Sca-1+, cKit+ (LSK)-enriched population of hematopoietic progenitor cells isolated from the bone marow of Abi-1 KO and WT animals. Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1- cre(-)) or Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1-cre(+)) mice were subjected to polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)]-induced activation of the Cre recombinase under control of the Mx1 promoter to obtain animals with an Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1-cre(-)) (Abi-1 WT) or Abi1(-/-);Tg (Mx1-cre(+)) (Abi-1 KO) genotype.
Project description:To study the mechanism underlying IDA-induced anti-tumor activity for Abi resistance, LNCaP-Abi cells were treated with Abi alone and in combination with IDA for 24 h. Protein profiles were determined by mass spectrometry