MYC drives aggressive prostate cancer by disrupting transcriptional pause release at androgen receptor targets

X Qiu, N Boufaied, T Hallal, A Feit, A de Polo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract c-MYC (MYC) is a major driver of prostate cancer tumorigenesis and progression.
Although MYC is overexpressed in both early and metastatic disease and associated with …

c-Myc antagonises the transcriptional activity of the androgen receptor in prostate cancer affecting key gene networks

SJ Barfeld, A Urbanucci, HM Itkonen, L Fazli… - …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men. The androgen
receptor (AR), a ligand-activated transcription factor, constitutes the main drug target for …

Androgen receptor promotes ligand-independent prostate cancer progression through c-Myc upregulation

L Gao, J Schwartzman, A Gibbs, R Lisac… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The androgen receptor (AR) is the principal therapeutic target in prostate cancer. For the
past 70 years, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been the major therapeutic focus …

MYC and prostate cancer

CM Koh, CJ Bieberich, CV Dang, WG Nelson… - Genes & …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Prostate cancer, the majority of which is adenocarcinoma, is the most common epithelial
cancer affecting a majority of elderly men in Western nations. Its manifestation, however …

Androgen receptor and MYC equilibration centralizes on developmental super-enhancer

H Guo, Y Wu, M Nouri, S Spisak, JW Russo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Androgen receptor (AR) in prostate cancer (PCa) can drive transcriptional repression of
multiple genes including MYC, and supraphysiological androgen is effective in some …

Therapeutic approaches targeting MYC-driven prostate cancer

RJ Rebello, RB Pearson, RD Hannan, L Furic - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
The transcript encoding the proto-oncogene MYC is commonly overexpressed in prostate
cancer (PC). MYC protein abundance is also increased in the majority of cases of advanced …

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 …

A MYC and RAS co-activation signature in localized prostate cancer drives bone metastasis and castration resistance

JM Arriaga, S Panja, M Alshalalfa, J Zhao, M Zou… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the intricacies of lethal prostate cancer poses specific challenges due to
difficulties in accurate modeling of metastasis in vivo. Here we show that NPK EYFP mice …

A positive role of c-Myc in regulating androgen receptor and its splice variants in prostate cancer

S Bai, S Cao, L Jin, M Kobelski, B Schouest, X Wang… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Increased expression of the full-length androgen receptor (AR-FL) and AR splice variants
(AR-Vs) drives the progression of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). The levels of …

Dynamic prostate cancer transcriptome analysis delineates the trajectory to disease progression

M Bolis, D Bossi, A Vallerga, V Ceserani… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Comprehensive genomic studies have delineated key driver mutations linked to disease
progression for most cancers. However, corresponding transcriptional changes remain …