Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Inhibition of Notch pathway arrests PTEN-deficient advanced prostate cancer by triggering p27-driven cellular senescence

  • Ajinkya Revandkar,
  • Maria Luna Perciato,
  • Alberto Toso,
  • Abdullah Alajati,
  • Jingjing Chen,
  • Hermeto Gerber,
  • Mitko Dimitrov,
  • Andrea Rinaldi,
  • Nicolas Delaleu,
  • Emiliano Pasquini,
  • Rocco D’Antuono,
  • Sandra Pinton,
  • Marco Losa,
  • Letizia Gnetti,
  • Alberto Arribas,
  • Patrick Fraering,
  • Francesco Bertoni,
  • Alain Nepveu,
  • Andrea Alimonti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13719
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Notch signalling is involved in prostate cancer progression and therapeutic resistance. Here, the authors show that loss of PTEN in prostate cancer models results in increased Notch1 cleavage and activation through CUX1-mediated transactivation of ADAM17.