Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

The MAO inhibitors phenelzine and clorgyline revert enzalutamide resistance in castration resistant prostate cancer

  • Keliang Wang,
  • Jie Luo,
  • Shuyuan Yeh,
  • Bosen You,
  • Jialin Meng,
  • Philip Chang,
  • Yuanjie Niu,
  • Gonghui Li,
  • Changxue Lu,
  • Yezi Zhu,
  • Emmanuel S. Antonarakis,
  • Jun Luo,
  • Chi-Ping Huang,
  • Wanhai Xu,
  • Chawnshang Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15396-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Castration resistant prostate cancer patients treated with enzalutamide may develop resistance to the drug. Here, the authors report that monoamine oxidase-A expression is increased in these resistant tumors and that the antidepressants phenelzine/clorgyline can reverse such resistance to further suppress tumor growth