1. HES6 drives a critical AR transcriptional programme to induce castration-resistant prostate cancer through activation of an E2F1-mediated cell cycle network.
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Ramos-Montoya A, Lamb AD, Russell R, Carroll T, Jurmeister S, Galeano-Dalmau N, Massie CE, Boren J, Bon H, Theodorou V, Vias M, Shaw GL, Sharma NL, Ross-Adams H, Scott HE, Vowler SL, Howat WJ, Warren AY, Wooster RF, Mills IG, and Neal DE
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- Animals, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors genetics, Cell Cycle Proteins metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, E2F1 Transcription Factor genetics, Gene Expression Profiling, Humans, Male, Mice, Molecular Sequence Data, Prostatic Neoplasms pathology, Repressor Proteins genetics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors metabolism, E2F1 Transcription Factor metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Prostatic Neoplasms physiopathology, Receptors, Androgen metabolism, Repressor Proteins metabolism
- Abstract
Castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is poorly characterized and heterogeneous and while the androgen receptor (AR) is of singular importance, other factors such as c-Myc and the E2F family also play a role in later stage disease. HES6 is a transcription co-factor associated with stem cell characteristics in neural tissue. Here we show that HES6 is up-regulated in aggressive human prostate cancer and drives castration-resistant tumour growth in the absence of ligand binding by enhancing the transcriptional activity of the AR, which is preferentially directed to a regulatory network enriched for transcription factors such as E2F1. In the clinical setting, we have uncovered a HES6-associated signature that predicts poor outcome in prostate cancer, which can be pharmacologically targeted by inhibition of PLK1 with restoration of sensitivity to castration. We have therefore shown for the first time the critical role of HES6 in the development of CRPC and identified its potential in patient-specific therapeutic strategies.
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- 2014
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