Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

A noncanonical AR addiction drives enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer

  • Yundong He,
  • Ting Wei,
  • Zhenqing Ye,
  • Jacob J. Orme,
  • Dong Lin,
  • Haoyue Sheng,
  • Ladan Fazli,
  • R. Jeffrey Karnes,
  • Rafael Jimenez,
  • Liguo Wang,
  • Liewei Wang,
  • Martin E. Gleave,
  • Yuzhuo Wang,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Haojie Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21860-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Resistance to second generation anti-androgen therapies such as enzalutamide (ENZ) can emerge in prostate cancer patients. Here, the authors identify an ENZ-resistant mechanism driven by AR-dependent transcription of noncanonical targets that make resistant cells susceptible to dual inhibition of BET and CBP/p300 signaling.