Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

LncRNA-p21 alters the antiandrogen enzalutamide-induced prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation via modulating the EZH2/STAT3 signaling

  • Jie Luo,
  • Keliang Wang,
  • Shuyuan Yeh,
  • Yin Sun,
  • Liang Liang,
  • Yao Xiao,
  • Wanhai Xu,
  • Yuanjie Niu,
  • Liang Cheng,
  • Sankar N. Maity,
  • Runze Jiang,
  • Chawnshang Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09784-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The induction of neuroendocrine differentiation occurs in enzalutamide treated castration resistant prostate cancer. Here, the authors show that lncRNA-21 mediates enzalutamide induced neuroendocrine differentiation through EZH2/STAT axis and EZH2 inhibition suppresses this differentiation.