Identifying and treating ROBO1-ve /DOCK1+ve prostate cancer : An aggressive cancer subtype prevalent in African American patients

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BACKGROUND: There is a need to develop novel therapies which could be beneficial to patients with prostate cancer (CaP) including those who are predisposed to poor outcome, such as African-Americans. This study investigates the role of ROBO1-pathway in predicting outcome and race-based disparity in patients with CaP.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Aided by RNA sequencing-based DECIPHER-testing and immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis of tumors we show that ROBO1 is lost during the progressive stages of CaP, a prevalent feature in African-Americans. We show that the loss of ROBO1 predicts high-risk of recurrence, metastasis and poor outcome of androgen-deprivation therapy in radical prostatectomy-treated patients. These data identified an aggressive ROBO1deficient /DOCK1+ve sub-class of CaP. Combined genetic and IHC data showed that ROBO1 loss is accompanied by DOCK1/Rac1 elevation in grade-III/IV primary-tumors and Mets. We observed that the hypermethylation of ROBO1-promoter contributes to loss of expression that is highly prevalent in African-Americans. Because of limitations in restoring ROBO1 function, we asked if targeting the DOCK1 could be an ideal strategy to inhibit progression or treat ROBO1deficient metastatic-CaP. We tested the pharmacological efficacy of CPYPP, a selective inhibitor of DOCK1 under in vitro and in vivo conditions. Using ROBO1-ve and ROBO1+ve CaP models, we determined the median effective concentration of CPYPP for growth. DOCK1-inhibitor treatment significantly decreased the (a) Rac1-GTP/β-catenin activity, (b) transmigration of ROBO1deficient cells across endothelial lining, and (c) metastatic spread of ROBO1deficient cells through the vasculature of transgenicfl Zebrafish model.

CONCLUSION: We suggest that ROBO1 status forms as predictive biomarker of outcome in high-risk populations such as African-Americans and DOCK1-targeting therapy has a clinical potential for treating metastatic-CaP.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:80

Enthalten in:

The Prostate - 80(2020), 13 vom: 30. Sept., Seite 1045-1057

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferrari, Marina G [VerfasserIn]
Ganaie, Arsheed A [VerfasserIn]
Shabenah, Ashraf [VerfasserIn]
Mansini, Adrian P [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Murugan, Paari [VerfasserIn]
Davicioni, Elai [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jinhua [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Yibin [VerfasserIn]
Hoeppner, Luke H [VerfasserIn]
Warlick, Christopher A [VerfasserIn]
Konety, Badrinath R [VerfasserIn]
Saleem, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

African American
DECIPHER
DOCK1
DOCK1 protein, human
EC 3.6.5.2
Journal Article
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Prostate cancer
RAC1 protein, human
ROBO1
Rac GTP-Binding Proteins
Rac1 GTP-Binding Protein
Receptors, Immunologic
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 07.10.2020

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/pros.24018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312639759