articleCancer DiscoverySep 11, 2013GREEN OA

Androgen Receptor Signaling Regulates DNA Repair in Prostate Cancers

Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

UNLABELLED: We demonstrate that the androgen receptor (AR) regulates a transcriptional program of DNA repair genes that promotes prostate cancer radioresistance, providing a potential mechanism by which androgen deprivation therapy synergizes with ionizing radiation. Using a model of castration-resistant prostate cancer, we show that second-generation antiandrogen therapy results in downregulation of DNA repair genes. Next, we demonstrate that primary prostate cancers display a significant spectrum of AR transcriptional output, which correlates with expression of a set of DNA repair genes. Using RNA-seq and ChIP-seq, we define which of these DNA repair genes are both induced by androgen and represent direct AR…

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