Massie, C. E., Lynch, A., Ramos-Montoya, A., Boren, J., Stark, R., Fazli, L., Warren, A., Scott, H., Madhu, B., Sharma, N., Bon, H., Zecchini, V., Smith, D. M., Denicola, G. M., Mathews, N., Osborne, M., Hadfield, J., Macarthur, S., Adryan, B., Lyons, S. K., Brindle, K. M., Griffiths, J., Gleave, M. E., Rennie, P. S., Neal, D. E., Mills, I. G. (May 2011) The androgen receptor fuels prostate cancer by regulating central metabolism and biosynthesis. EMBO J, 30 (13). pp. 2719-33. ISSN 1460-2075 (Electronic)0261-4189 (Linking)
Abstract
The androgen receptor (AR) is a key regulator of prostate growth and the principal drug target for the treatment of prostate cancer. Previous studies have mapped AR targets and identified some candidates which may contribute to cancer progression, but did not characterize AR biology in an integrated manner. In this study, we took an interdisciplinary approach, integrating detailed genomic studies with metabolomic profiling and identify an anabolic transcriptional network involving AR as the core regulator. Restricting flux through anabolic pathways is an attractive approach to deprive tumours of the building blocks needed to sustain tumour growth. Therefore, we searched for targets of the AR that may contribute to these anabolic processes and could be amenable to therapeutic intervention by virtue of differential expression in prostate tumours. This highlighted calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2, which we show is overexpressed in prostate cancer and regulates cancer cell growth via its unexpected role as a hormone-dependent modulator of anabolic metabolism. In conclusion, it is possible to progress from transcriptional studies to a promising therapeutic target by taking an unbiased interdisciplinary approach.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals Base Sequence Binding Sites/genetics Biosynthetic Pathways/genetics Carcinoma/*genetics/*metabolism/pathology Cell Line, Tumor Cell Proliferation Cluster Analysis Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic Humans Male Metabolism/genetics/physiology Mice Models, Biological Prostatic Neoplasms/*genetics/*metabolism/pathology Receptors, Androgen/genetics/metabolism/*physiology Response Elements/genetics Transplantation, Heterologous |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > hormones diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > prostate cancer |
| CSHL Authors: | |
| Communities: | CSHL labs > Lyons lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 20 May 2011 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2017 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2017 16:17 |
| PMCID: | PMC3155295 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/34722 |
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