Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Ailanthone targets p23 to overcome MDV3100 resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer

  • Yundong He,
  • Shihong Peng,
  • Jinhua Wang,
  • Huang Chen,
  • Xiaonan Cong,
  • Ang Chen,
  • Meichun Hu,
  • Min Qin,
  • Haigang Wu,
  • Shuman Gao,
  • Liguo Wang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Zhengfang Yi,
  • Mingyao Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13122
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Prostate cancers often become castration resistant due to alternative expression of androgen receptor (AR) splice variants. Here, the authors screened a library of natural compounds and identified Ailanthone as a potent inhibitor of AR through its binding to the co-chaperone protein p23 that, by preventing AR interaction with HSP90, results in ubiquitin/proteasome-mediated degradation of the receptor.