Reprogramming of the FOXA1 cistrome in treatment-emergent neuroendocrine prostate cancer

SC Baca, DY Takeda, JH Seo, J Hwang, SY Ku… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lineage plasticity, the ability of a cell to alter its identity, is an increasingly common
mechanism of adaptive resistance to targeted therapy in cancer. An archetypal example is …

FOXA2 drives lineage plasticity and KIT pathway activation in neuroendocrine prostate cancer

M Han, F Li, Y Zhang, P Dai, J He, Y Li, Y Zhu, J Zheng… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Prostate cancer adeno-to-neuroendocrine lineage transition has emerged as a mechanism
of targeted therapeutic resistance. Identifying the direct molecular drivers and developing …

FOXA1 inhibits prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation

J Kim, H Jin, JC Zhao, YA Yang, Y Li, X Yang, X Dong… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) has increasingly become a clinical challenge. The
mechanisms by which neuroendocrine (NE) cells arises from prostate adenocarcinoma cells …

N-Myc–mediated epigenetic reprogramming drives lineage plasticity in advanced prostate cancer

A Berger, NJ Brady, R Bareja… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Despite recent therapeutic advances, prostate cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-
related death. A subset of castration-resistant prostate cancers become androgen receptor …

Distinct structural classes of activating FOXA1 alterations in advanced prostate cancer

A Parolia, M Cieslik, SC Chu, L Xiao, T Ouchi, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abtract Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1) is a pioneer transcription factor that is essential for the
normal development of several endoderm-derived organs, including the prostate gland …

Prostate cancer reactivates developmental epigenomic programs during metastatic progression

MM Pomerantz, X Qiu, Y Zhu, DY Takeda, W Pan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Epigenetic processes govern prostate cancer (PCa) biology, as evidenced by the
dependency of PCa cells on the androgen receptor (AR), a prostate master transcription …

Inhibition of FOXC2 restores epithelial phenotype and drug sensitivity in prostate cancer cells with stem-cell properties

AN Paranjape, R Soundararajan, SJ Werden… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Advanced prostate adenocarcinomas enriched in stem-cell features, as well as variant
androgen receptor (AR)-negative neuroendocrine (NE)/small-cell prostate cancers are …

Noncoding mutations target cis-regulatory elements of the FOXA1 plexus in prostate cancer

S Zhou, JR Hawley, F Soares, G Grillo, M Teng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy among men
worldwide. Recurrently mutated in primary and metastatic prostate tumors, FOXA1 encodes …

Pioneer of prostate cancer: past, present and the future of FOXA1

M Teng, S Zhou, C Cai, M Lupien, HH He - Protein & Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous cancers in North American
men. While androgen deprivation has remained as the cornerstone of prostate cancer …

Elevated levels of FOXA1 facilitate androgen receptor chromatin binding resulting in a CRPC-like phenotype

JLL Robinson, TE Hickey, AY Warren, SL Vowler… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) continues to pose a significant clinical
challenge with new generation second-line hormonal therapies affording limited …