Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Opposing transcriptional programs of KLF5 and AR emerge during therapy for advanced prostate cancer

  • Meixia Che,
  • Aashi Chaturvedi,
  • Sarah A. Munro,
  • Samuel P. Pitzen,
  • Alex Ling,
  • Weijie Zhang,
  • Josh Mentzer,
  • Sheng-Yu Ku,
  • Loredana Puca,
  • Yanyun Zhu,
  • Andries M. Bergman,
  • Tesa M. Severson,
  • Colleen Forster,
  • Yuzhen Liu,
  • Jacob Hildebrand,
  • Mark Daniel,
  • Ting-You Wang,
  • Luke A. Selth,
  • Theresa Hickey,
  • Amina Zoubeidi,
  • Martin Gleave,
  • Rohan Bareja,
  • Andrea Sboner,
  • Wayne Tilley,
  • Jason S. Carroll,
  • Winston Tan,
  • Manish Kohli,
  • Rendong Yang,
  • Andrew C. Hsieh,
  • Paari Murugan,
  • Wilbert Zwart,
  • Himisha Beltran,
  • R. Stephanie Huang,
  • Scott M. Dehm

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26612-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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While many treatments for prostate cancer suppress the androgen receptor it becomes reactivated during disease progression. Here, the authors show that a KLF5 transcriptional programme is also activated during treatment and promotes migration and the appearance of a basal cell phenotype.