Determining the role of ASCL1 in neuroendocrine prostate cancer

确定 ASCL1 在神经内分泌前列腺癌中的作用

• 批准号: 10452507
• 负责人: Kathia E. Rodarte
• 金额: $ 3.54万
• 依托单位: UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-09 至 2024-07-08
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10452507
• 关键词: ASCL1 gene; ATAC-seq; Androgen Receptor; Automobile Driving; Basal Cell; Biological; Biological Assay; Biomedical Research; CRISPR interference; Cancer Biology; Cancer Histology; Cancer Patient; Cell Line; Cell Lineage; Cell Survival; Cells; ChIP-seq; Chromatin; Complex; Development; Developmental Gene; Diagnosis; Disease; Disease model; Distal; Engineering; Enterobacteria phage P1 Cre recombinase; Ethics; Experimental Models; Exposure to; Fellowship; Gene Expression; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Transcription; Genetically Engineered Mouse; Genomic Segment; Growth; Histologic; Human; In Vitro; Knock-out; Knowledge; LoxP-flanked allele; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Modeling; Mus; Neuroendocrine Cell; Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer; Neurosecretory Systems; Nucleic Acid Regulatory Sequences; Organoids; Patients; Play; Population; Pre-Clinical Model; Process; Prostate; Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Prostate Cancer therapy; RB1 gene; Regulation; Repression; Research; Resistance; Resistance development; Role; Sampling; TP53 gene; Techniques; Testing; Training; Tumor Suppressor Genes; Tumor Suppressor Proteins; Xenograft procedure; androgen deprivation therapy; antagonist; cancer gene expression; cancer subtypes; cancer therapy; castration resistant prostate cancer; cell growth; cell type; enzalutamide; experience; insight; knock-down; loss of function; lung small cell carcinoma; mouse model; neoplastic cell; neuroendocrine cancer; neuroendocrine phenotype; novel therapeutic intervention; patient derived xenograft model; pre-clinical; pressure; programs; prostate cancer cell line; prostate cancer model; survival outcome; transcription factor; tumor

Most patients with prostate adenocarcinoma, an androgen receptor (AR) driven cancer, develop castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) due to resistance to first-line androgen deprivation therapies. Consequently, as a second-line therapy, patients are treated with a potent AR antagonist called enzalutamide (Enz). However, a portion of CRPC patients treated with Enz develop neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), which is a rapidly progressing cancer with limited therapies and poor survival outcomes. Current research to understand the CRPC transition to NEPC suggests a model of lineage plasticity, where the AR-dependent tumors with luminal cell-type features transition through a multi-potential lineage state. Under selection pressure of the therapy, the cells progress towards an AR-independent neuroendocrine lineage. Several groups have found human NEPC tumors have lost RB1 and TP53, and in experimental models, loss of both genes was required for this transition to a neuroendocrine lineage. Notably, NEPC histology and gene expression resemble another neuroendocrine cancer, small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), a cancer also characterized by loss of RB1 and TP53. In SCLC, the transcription factor ASCL1 is required for tumor cell growth in vitro, and for SCLC formation in a mouse model of this disease. ASCL1 is present in NEPC tumors and in some cell line models of the disease. The current proposal is aimed at determining if ASCL1 is required in the transition of prostate adenocarcinoma to NEPC, and identifying the gene programs regulated by ASCL1 in this process. In addition, mechanisms leading to the elevated levels of ASCL1 with RB1/TP53 loss will be explored. Gain- and loss-of-function approaches of ASCL1 in NEPC cell lines, NEPC patient-derived xenografts, and mouse prostate organoid models from genetically engineered mice will be conducted to determine what role if any ASCL1 plays in this cancer. Comparing ASCL1 function and regulation in NEPC with those in SCLC may reveal common mechanisms and vulnerabilities in these and other neuroendocrine cancers. This fellowship provides training in how to perform scientifically rigorous and ethical biomedical research and how to communicate scientific findings to the field, particularly as it relates to biological mechanisms underlying cancer. The expertise from Dr. Jane Johnson’s lab in developmental transcription factors and neuroendocrine lung cancer, and Dr. Ping Mu’s lab in prostate cancer therapy resistance will provide the necessary knowledge and techniques required for a successful training experience and completion of the proposed project.

前列腺癌是一种雄激素受体（AR）驱动的癌症，大多数患者会发生去势