Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

LRIG1 is a pleiotropic androgen receptor-regulated feedback tumor suppressor in prostate cancer

  • Qiuhui Li,
  • Bigang Liu,
  • Hsueh-Ping Chao,
  • Yibing Ji,
  • Yue Lu,
  • Rashid Mehmood,
  • Collene Jeter,
  • Taiping Chen,
  • John R. Moore,
  • Wenqian Li,
  • Can Liu,
  • Kiera Rycaj,
  • Amanda Tracz,
  • Jason Kirk,
  • Tammy Calhoun-Davis,
  • Jie Xiong,
  • Qu Deng,
  • Jiaoti Huang,
  • Barbara A. Foster,
  • Abhiram Gokhale,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Dean G. Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13532-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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LRIG1 is a tumour suppressor in several cancers. Here, the authors show that androgen receptor directly transactivates LRIG1 which then antagonises ERBB signalling and c-Myc expression to inhibit prostate tumorigenesis.