Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Emerging mechanisms of resistance to androgen receptor inhibitors in prostate cancer

PA Watson, VK Arora, CL Sawyers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
During the past 10 years, preclinical studies implicating sustained androgen receptor (AR)
signalling as the primary driver of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have led to …

DeepPROTACs is a deep learning-based targeted degradation predictor for PROTACs

F Li, Q Hu, X Zhang, R Sun, Z Liu, S Wu, S Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The rational design of PROTACs is difficult due to their obscure structure-activity
relationship. This study introduces a deep neural network model-DeepPROTACs to help …

Targeted protein degradation by PROTACs

TK Neklesa, JD Winkler, CM Crews - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation using the PROTAC technology is emerging as a novel
therapeutic method to address diseases driven by the aberrant expression of a disease …

A new old target: androgen receptor signaling and advanced prostate cancer

D Westaby, MLD Fenor de La Maza… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Owing to the development of multiple novel therapies, there has been major progress in the
treatment of advanced prostate cancer over the last two decades; however, the disease …

A somatically acquired enhancer of the androgen receptor is a noncoding driver in advanced prostate cancer

DY Takeda, S Spisák, JH Seo, C Bell, E O'Connor… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Increased androgen receptor (AR) activity drives therapeutic resistance in advanced
prostate cancer. The most common resistance mechanism is amplification of this locus …

Prostate cancer progression after androgen deprivation therapy: mechanisms of castrate resistance and novel therapeutic approaches

T Karantanos, PG Corn, TC Thompson - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related mortality in men in Western
societies. Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is a critical survival pathway for prostate cancer …

LSD1: more than demethylation of histone lysine residues

B Perillo, A Tramontano, A Pezone… - Experimental & molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Lysine-specific histone demethylase 1 (LSD1) represents the first example of an identified
nuclear protein with histone demethylase activity. In particular, it plays a special role in the …

LncRNA HOTAIR enhances the androgen-receptor-mediated transcriptional program and drives castration-resistant prostate cancer

A Zhang, JC Zhao, J Kim, K Fong, YA Yang… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Understanding the mechanisms of androgen receptor (AR) activation in the milieu of low
androgen is critical to effective treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) …

SETD7 functions as a transcription repressor in prostate cancer via methylating FOXA1

Z Wang, J Petricca, M Liu, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Dysregulation of histone lysine methyltransferases and demethylases is one of the major
mechanisms driving the epigenetic reprogramming of transcriptional networks in castration …