[HTML][HTML] Aggressive variants of prostate cancer: underlying mechanisms of neuroendocrine transdifferentiation

L Merkens, V Sailer, D Lessel, E Janzen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Prostate cancer is a hormone-driven disease and its tumor cell growth highly relies on
increased androgen receptor (AR) signaling. Therefore, targeted therapy directed against …

The transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of cancer cell lineage plasticity

A Davies, A Zoubeidi, H Beltran, LA Selth - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Lineage plasticity, a process whereby cells change their phenotype to take on a different
molecular and/or histologic identity, is a key driver of cancer progression and therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy epigenomic profiling for cancer subtyping

SC Baca, JH Seo, MP Davidsohn, B Fortunato… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assays are increasingly used to inform clinical
decisions in cancer care, they have limited ability to identify the transcriptional programs that …

Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer

MK Bakht, Y Yamada, SY Ku, VB Venkadakrishnan… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor expression of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is lost in 15–20% of men
with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), yet the underlying mechanisms remain …

[HTML][HTML] ASCL1 activates neuronal stem cell-like lineage programming through remodeling of the chromatin landscape in prostate cancer

S Nouruzi, D Ganguli, N Tabrizian, M Kobelev… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) in prostate cancer
leads to the emergence of resistant tumors characterized by lineage plasticity and …

Molecular mechanisms underlying the development of neuroendocrine prostate cancer

S Liu, BR Alabi, Q Yin, T Stoyanova - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer and the second leading cause
of cancer-associated deaths among men in the United States. Androgen deprivation therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Reversible epigenetic alterations mediate PSMA expression heterogeneity in advanced metastatic prostate cancer

E Sayar, RA Patel, IM Coleman, MP Roudier, A Zhang… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an important cell surface target in prostate
cancer. There are limited data on the heterogeneity of PSMA tissue expression in metastatic …

[HTML][HTML] Therapy considerations in neuroendocrine prostate cancer: what next?

H Beltran, F Demichelis - Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2021 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Lineage plasticity and histologic transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer
(NEPC) is an increasingly recognized mechanism of treatment resistance in advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Noninvasive Detection of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer through Targeted Cell-free DNA Methylation

GM Franceschini, O Quaini, K Mizuno, F Orlando… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a heterogeneous disease associated with
phenotypic subtypes that drive therapy response and outcome differences. Histologic …

Inhibiting androgen receptor splice variants with cysteine-selective irreversible covalent inhibitors to treat prostate cancer

T Thiyagarajan, S Ponnusamy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Androgen receptor (AR) and its splice variants (AR-SVs) promote prostate cancer (PCa)
growth by orchestrating transcriptional reprogramming. Mechanisms by which the low …