Mouse models of prostate cancer: picking the best model for the question

MM Grabowska, DJ DeGraff, X Yu, RJ Jin… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract When the National Institutes of Health Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium
initiated the Prostate Steering Committee 15 years ago, there were no genetically …

Androgen deprivation–induced NCoA2 promotes metastatic and castration-resistant prostate cancer

J Qin, HJ Lee, SP Wu, SC Lin, RB Lanz… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
A major clinical hurdle for the management of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) in patients is
the resistance of tumors to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and their subsequent …

Notch signaling in prostate cancer: a moving target

FLF Carvalho, BW Simons, CG Eberhart… - The …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION By regulating cell fate, proliferation, and survival, Notch pathway signaling
provides critical input into differentiation, organization, and function of multiple tissues. Notch …

p300 acetyltransferase regulates androgen receptor degradation and PTEN-deficient prostate tumorigenesis

J Zhong, L Ding, LR Bohrer, Y Pan, P Liu, J Zhang… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Overexpression of the histone acetyltransferase p300 is implicated in the proliferation and
progression of prostate cancer, but evidence of a causal role is lacking. In this study, we …

PTEN expression and function in adult cancer stem cells and prospects for therapeutic targeting

L Ciuffreda, I Falcone, UC Incani, A Del Curatolo… - Advances in biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN) is a non-redundant
lipid phosphatase that restrains and fine tunes the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) …

The regulatory roles of phosphatases in cancer

J Stebbing, LC Lit, H Zhang, RS Darrington, O Melaiu… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
The relevance of potentially reversible post-translational modifications required for
controlling cellular processes in cancer is one of the most thriving arenas of cellular and …

Maf1 is a novel target of PTEN and PI3K signaling that negatively regulates oncogenesis and lipid metabolism

BM Palian, AD Rohira, SAS Johnson, L He… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Maf1 was initially identified as a transcriptional repressor of RNA pol III-transcribed genes,
yet little is known about its other potential target genes or its biological function. Here, we …

RapidCaP, a Novel GEM Model for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Analysis and Therapy, Reveals Myc as a Driver of Pten-Mutant Metastasis

H Cho, T Herzka, W Zheng, J Qi, JE Wilkinson… - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
Genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models are a pillar of functional cancer research.
Here, we developed RapidCaP, a GEM modeling system that uses surgical injection for viral …

Symmetrical and asymmetrical division analysis provides evidence for a hierarchy of prostate epithelial cell lineages

J Wang, HH Zhu, M Chu, Y Liu, C Zhang, G Liu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Although symmetrical and asymmetrical divisions of stem cells have been extensively
studied in invertebrate and mammalian neural epithelia, their role remains largely unknown …

CAF-secreted annexin A1 induces prostate cancer cells to gain stem cell–like features

LA Geary, KA Nash, H Adisetiyo, M Liang, CP Liao… - Molecular cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Abstract Annexin A1 (AnxA1), a phospholipid-binding protein and regulator of glucocorticoid-
induced inflammatory signaling, has implications in cancer. Here, a role for AnxA1 in …