N-Myc 介导的表观遗传重编程驱动晚期前列腺癌中的谱系可塑性。
N-Myc-mediated epigenetic reprogramming drives lineage plasticity in advanced prostate cancer.
机构信息
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
出版信息
J Clin Invest. 2019 Jul 1;129(9):3924-3940. doi: 10.1172/JCI127961.
Despite recent therapeutic advances, prostate cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death. A subset of castration resistant prostate cancers become androgen receptor (AR) signaling-independent and develop neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) features through lineage plasticity. These NEPC tumors, associated with aggressive disease and poor prognosis, are driven, in part, by aberrant expression of N-Myc, through mechanisms that remain unclear. Integrative analysis of the N-Myc transcriptome, cistrome and interactome using in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo models (including patient-derived organoids) identified a lineage switch towards a neural identity associated with epigenetic reprogramming. N-Myc and known AR-co-factors (e.g., FOXA1 and HOXB13) overlapped, independently of AR, at genomic loci implicated in neural lineage specification. Moreover, histone marks specifically associated with lineage-defining genes were reprogrammed by N-Myc. We also demonstrated that the N-Myc-induced molecular program accurately classifies our cohort of patients with advanced prostate cancer. Finally, we revealed the potential for EZH2 inhibition to reverse the N-Myc-induced suppression of epithelial lineage genes. Altogether, our data provide insights on how N-Myc regulates lineage plasticity and epigenetic reprogramming associated with lineage-specification. The N-Myc signature we defined could also help predict the evolution of prostate cancer and thus better guide the choice of future therapeutic strategies.
尽管最近有了治疗上的进展,但前列腺癌仍然是癌症相关死亡的主要原因。一部分去势抵抗性前列腺癌变得对雄激素受体 (AR) 信号不敏感,并通过谱系可塑性发展为神经内分泌前列腺癌 (NEPC) 特征。这些与侵袭性疾病和预后不良相关的 NEPC 肿瘤部分是由 N-Myc 的异常表达驱动的,其机制尚不清楚。使用体内、体外和离体模型(包括患者来源的类器官)对 N-Myc 转录组、顺式作用元件组和互作组进行综合分析,确定了与表观遗传重编程相关的向神经谱系转变的谱系转换。N-Myc 和已知的 AR 共因子(例如 FOXA1 和 HOXB13)在与神经谱系特化相关的基因组位置上与 AR 独立重叠,这些位置与 AR 共因子(例如 FOXA1 和 HOXB13)重叠。此外,与谱系定义基因特异性相关的组蛋白标记被 N-Myc 重新编程。我们还证明,N-Myc 诱导的分子程序可以准确地对我们的晚期前列腺癌患者队列进行分类。最后,我们揭示了 EZH2 抑制逆转 N-Myc 诱导的上皮谱系基因抑制的潜力。总之,我们的数据提供了关于 N-Myc 如何调节与谱系特化相关的谱系可塑性和表观遗传重编程的见解。我们定义的 N-Myc 特征也可以帮助预测前列腺癌的演变,从而更好地指导未来治疗策略的选择。
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