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 …

Lineage plasticity in prostate cancer depends on JAK/STAT inflammatory signaling

JM Chan, S Zaidi, JR Love, JL Zhao, M Setty… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Drug resistance in cancer is often linked to changes in tumor cell state or lineage, but the
molecular mechanisms driving this plasticity remain unclear. Using murine organoid and …

Update on biology and genomics of adrenocortical carcinomas: rationale for emerging therapies

AM Lerario, DR Mohan, GD Hammer - Endocrine Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The adrenal glands are paired endocrine organs that produce steroid hormones and
catecholamines required for life. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and often fatal …

[HTML][HTML] Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance

S Deng, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu, X Li, NA Johnson… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers can gain resistance to targeted therapies
by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations …

[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 …

Antiandrogen treatment induces stromal cell reprogramming to promote castration resistance in prostate cancer

H Wang, N Li, Q Liu, J Guo, Q Pan, B Cheng, J Xu… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Lineage plasticity causes therapeutic resistance; however, it remains unclear how the fate
conversion and phenotype switching of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are implicated …

A cryptic transactivation domain of EZH2 binds AR and AR's splice variant, promoting oncogene activation and tumorous transformation

J Wang, KS Park, X Yu, W Gong, HS Earp… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) and androgen receptor (AR) are crucial
chromatin/gene regulators involved in the development and/or progression of prostate …

[HTML][HTML] From omics to multi-omics approaches for in-depth analysis of the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer

E Nevedomskaya, B Haendler - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer arises following alterations at different cellular levels, including genetic and
epigenetic modifications, transcription and translation dysregulation, as well as metabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Complexities of prostate cancer

S Wasim, SY Lee, J Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer has a long disease history and a wide variety and uncertainty in individual
patients' clinical progress. In recent years, we have seen a revolutionary advance in both …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential

J Kneppers, TM Severson, JC Siefert, P Schol… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Androgen receptor (AR) drives prostate cancer (PCa) development and progression. AR
chromatin binding profiles are highly plastic and form recurrent programmatic changes that …