Project description:To investigate the mechanisms of drug resistance and castration resistance in prostate cancer, we performed proteomic sequencing on androgen-dependent prostate cancer cells (LNCaP) and androgen-independent cells (AI) treated with enzalutamide.
Project description:Prostate gland is a highly androgen dependent gland. The first line of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer therefore, is androgen ablation. This can be achieved by multiple non-surgical methods. However, most of these cancers although respond well initially, become resistant to androgen ablation sooner or later. These cancers then become extremely aggressive and difficult to treat, thereby drastically affect the patient prognosis. A gene expression signature for castrate resistant prostate cancer would be useful in identification of mechanisms responsible for castrate resistance, as well as to predict the progression of the cancer into castrate resistance. For this, our group has done a RNA-seq analysis of a. Control group (C); b. Castrate Sensitive group (B) and c. Castrate Resistant group (A). Gene expression profiling was performed on these samples using RNA-seq. Differentially expressed genes between control and castrate sensitive as well as control and castrate resistant groups were identified.
Project description:To identify molecular singnal alterations between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer, we performed interspecies comparative microarray analyses using RNAs prepared from uncastrasion and castration tumor from LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer. microarray data from uncastrasion and castration tumor revealed that the gene expression profile is most significantly altered in between androgen dependent prostate cancer and castration resistant prostate cancer. Comparative analyses of LNCAP Orhotopic xenograft models of prostate cancer showed that genes involved in androgen dependent and androgen independent tumor were significantly altered.
Project description:Orthotopic tumors were previously generated from parental Prostate Luminal (PLum) cells under androgen‑dependent (PLum-AD) and androgen‑independent (PLum-AI) conditions in order to establish cellular models of prostate cancer progression (Abou-Kheir et al., 2011; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026112). We used microarrays to evaluate the differential gene expression profiles underlying progression of prostate cancer from primary androgen-dependent stage to advanced androgen-independent stage using newly isolated murine prostate cancer cell lines. Those cell lines represent novel in vitro models of androgen‑dependent and –independent prostate cancer, recapitulating the progression of the disease to a more invasive phenotype upon androgen deprivation.
