Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Androgen receptor signalling in macrophages promotes TREM-1-mediated prostate cancer cell line migration and invasion

  • Bianca Cioni,
  • Anniek Zaalberg,
  • Judy R. van Beijnum,
  • Monique H. M. Melis,
  • Johan van Burgsteden,
  • Mauro J. Muraro,
  • Erik Hooijberg,
  • Dennis Peters,
  • Ingrid Hofland,
  • Yoni Lubeck,
  • Jeroen de Jong,
  • Joyce Sanders,
  • Judith Vivié,
  • Henk G. van der Poel,
  • Jan Paul de Boer,
  • Arjan W. Griffioen,
  • Wilbert Zwart,
  • Andries M. Bergman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18313-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Anti-androgen therapy inhibits prostate cancer (PC) progression, and is thought to act directly on cancer cells. Here the authors show that androgen receptor is expressed on normal and PC-associated macrophages, and its stimulation alters macrophage secretome to promote migration of cultured PC cell lines.