Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

ONECUT2 is a driver of neuroendocrine prostate cancer

  • Haiyang Guo,
  • Xinpei Ci,
  • Musaddeque Ahmed,
  • Junjie Tony Hua,
  • Fraser Soares,
  • Dong Lin,
  • Loredana Puca,
  • Aram Vosoughi,
  • Hui Xue,
  • Estelle Li,
  • Peiran Su,
  • Sujun Chen,
  • Tran Nguyen,
  • Yi Liang,
  • Yuzhe Zhang,
  • Xin Xu,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Anjali V. Sheahan,
  • Wail Ba-Alawi,
  • Si Zhang,
  • Osman Mahamud,
  • Ravi N. Vellanki,
  • Martin Gleave,
  • Robert G. Bristow,
  • Benjamin Haibe-Kains,
  • John T. Poirier,
  • Charles M. Rudin,
  • Ming-Sound Tsao,
  • Bradly G. Wouters,
  • Ladan Fazli,
  • Felix Y. Feng,
  • Leigh Ellis,
  • Theo van der Kwast,
  • Alejandro Berlin,
  • Marianne Koritzinsky,
  • Paul C. Boutros,
  • Amina Zoubeidi,
  • Himisha Beltran,
  • Yuzhuo Wang,
  • Housheng Hansen He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08133-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is characterized by loss of androgen receptor (AR) signaling during neuroendocrine transdifferentiation, resulting in resistance to AR-targeted therapy. Here they report ONECUT2 to drive NEPC tumorigenesis via regulation of hypoxia signaling and tumor hypoxia, and find hypoxia directed therapy to be effective in NEPC.