Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Temporal evolution of cellular heterogeneity during the progression to advanced AR-negative prostate cancer

  • Nicholas J. Brady,
  • Alyssa M. Bagadion,
  • Richa Singh,
  • Vincenza Conteduca,
  • Lucie Van Emmenis,
  • Elisa Arceci,
  • Hubert Pakula,
  • Ryan Carelli,
  • Francesca Khani,
  • Martin Bakht,
  • Michael Sigouros,
  • Rohan Bareja,
  • Andrea Sboner,
  • Olivier Elemento,
  • Scott Tagawa,
  • David M. Nanus,
  • Massimo Loda,
  • Himisha Beltran,
  • Brian Robinson,
  • David S. Rickman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23780-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The heterogeneity of tumor evolution from AR-positive, adenocarcinoma to AR-negative, neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is not fully characterized. Here the authors generate a mouse model to show that Rb1 loss and MYCN overexpression accelerates the progression to AR-negative NEPC and identify emergence of distinct subpopulations of NEPC cells.