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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Agoulnik, Irina U
• Bingman, William E
• Nakka, Manjula
• Li, Wei
• Wang, Qianben
• Liu, X. Shirley
• Brown, Myles
• Weigel, Nancy L

Titel

Target Gene-Specific Regulation of Androgen Receptor Activity by p42/p44 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase

Ist Teil von

• Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.), 2008-11, Vol.22 (11), p.2420-2432

Ort / Verlag

United States: Endocrine Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Evidence that the androgen receptor (AR) is not only important in androgen-dependent prostate cancer, but also continues to play a role in tumors that become resistant to androgen deprivation therapies, highlights the need to find alternate means to block AR activity. AR, a hormone-activated transcription factor, and its coactivators are phosphoproteins. Thus, we sought to determine whether inhibition of specific cell signaling pathways would reduce AR function. We found that short-term inhibition of p42/p44 MAPK activity either by a MAPK kinase inhibitor, U0126, or by depletion of kinase with small interfering RNA caused target gene-specific reductions in AR activity. AR enhances histone H3 acetylation of target genes that are sensitive to U0126 including prostate-specific antigen and TMPRSS2, but does not increase histone H3 acetylation of the U0126-resistant PMEPA1 gene. Thus, although AR induces transcription of many target genes, the molecular changes induced by AR at the chromatin level are target gene specific. Long-term treatment (24–48 h) with U0126 causes a G1 cell cycle arrest and reduces AR expression both through a decrease in AR mRNA and a reduction in AR protein stability. Thus, treatments that reduce p42/p44 MAPK activity in prostate cancer have the potential to reduce AR activity through a reduction in expression levels as well as by target gene-selective inhibition of AR function.