Castration resistance is a major obstacle to hormonal therapy for prostate cancer patients. Although androgen independence of prostate cancer growth is a known contributing factor to endocrine resistance, the mechanism of androgen receptor deregulation in endocrine resistance is still poorly understood. Herein, the CAMK2N1 was shown to contribute to the human prostate cancer cell growth and survival through AR-dependent signaling. Reduced expression of CAMK2N1 was correlated to recurrence-free survival of prostate cancer patients with high levels of AR expression in their tumor. CAMK2N1 and AR signaling form an auto-regulatory negative feedback loop: CAMK2N1 expression was down-regulated by AR activation; while CAMK2N1 inhibited AR expression and transactivation through CAMKII and AKT pathways. Knockdown of CAMK2N1 in prostate cancer cells alleviated Casodex inhibition of cell growth, while re-expression of CAMK2N1 in castration-resistant cells sensitized the cells to Casodex treatment. Taken together, our findings suggest that CAMK2N1 plays a tumor suppressive role and serves as a crucial determinant of the resistance of prostate cancer to endocrine therapies.
基金:
National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [81001133, 81101927]
第一作者单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Med Coll,Tongji Hosp,Dept Urol,Wuhan 430074,Hubei,Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Med Coll,Tongji Hosp,Inst Urol,Wuhan 430074,Hubei,Peoples R China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Med Coll,Tongji Hosp,Dept Urol,Wuhan 430074,Hubei,Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Med Coll,Tongji Hosp,Inst Urol,Wuhan 430074,Hubei,Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Tao,Guo Shuiming,Liu Zhuo,et al.CAMK2N1 inhibits prostate cancer progression through androgen receptor-dependent signaling[J].ONCOTARGET.2014,5(21):10293-10306.doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2511.
APA:
Wang, Tao,Guo, Shuiming,Liu, Zhuo,Wu, Licheng,Li, Mingchao...&Chen, Ke.(2014).CAMK2N1 inhibits prostate cancer progression through androgen receptor-dependent signaling.ONCOTARGET,5,(21)
MLA:
Wang, Tao,et al."CAMK2N1 inhibits prostate cancer progression through androgen receptor-dependent signaling".ONCOTARGET 5..21(2014):10293-10306