Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 Promotes pICln-Dependent Androgen Receptor Transcription in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

©2020 American Association for Cancer Research..

The majority of advanced prostate cancer therapies aim to inhibit androgen receptor (AR) signaling. However, AR reactivation inevitably drives disease progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Here we demonstrate that protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) functions as an epigenetic activator of AR transcription in CRPC, requiring cooperation with a methylosome subunit pICln. In vitro and in xenograft tumors in mice, targeting PRMT5 or pICln suppressed growth of CRPC cells. Full-length AR and AR-V7 transcription activation required both PRMT5 and pICln but not MEP50. This activation of transcription was accompanied by PRMT5-mediated symmetric dimethylation of H4R3 at the proximal AR promoter. Further, knockdown of PRMT5 abolished the binding of pICln (but not vice versa) to the AR proximal promoter region, suggesting that PRMT5 recruits pICln to the AR promoter to activate AR transcription. Differential gene expression analysis in 22Rv1 cells confirmed that PRMT5 and pICln both regulate the androgen signaling pathway. In addition, PRMT5 and pICln protein expression positively correlated with AR and AR-V7 protein expression in CRPC tissues and their expression was highly correlated at the mRNA level across multiple publicly available CRPC datasets. Our results suggest that targeting PRMT5 or pICln may be explored as a novel therapy for CRPC treatment by suppressing expression of AR and AR splice variants to circumvent AR reactivation. SIGNIFICANCE: This study provides evidence that targeting PRMT5 can eliminate expression of AR and can be explored as a novel therapeutic approach to treat metastatic hormone-naïve and castration-resistant prostate cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:80

Enthalten in:

Cancer research - 80(2020), 22 vom: 15. Nov., Seite 4904-4917

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Beketova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Shuyi [VerfasserIn]
Owens, Jake L [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xufeng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qingfu [VerfasserIn]
Asberry, Andrew M [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Xuehong [VerfasserIn]
Malola, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Jiaoti [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chenglong [VerfasserIn]
Pili, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Elzey, Bennett D [VerfasserIn]
Ratliff, Timothy L [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Chang-Deng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AR protein, human
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
CLNS1A protein, human
EC 2.1.1.319
Ion Channels
Journal Article
MEP50 protein, human
PRMT5 protein, human
Protein-Arginine N-Methyltransferases
Receptors, Androgen
Receptors, Histamine H2
Receptors, Histamine H3
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 12.02.2021

Date Revised 17.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-1228

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315695013