Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Endocr Relat Cancer. 2022 Aug 17;29(10):R143-R155. doi: 10.1530/ERC-22-0140. Print 2022 Oct 1.
Hormonal therapies including androgen deprivation therapy and androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibitors such as abiraterone and enzalutamide have been widely used to treat advanced prostate cancer. However, treatment resistance emerges after hormonal manipulation in most prostate cancers, and it is attributable to a number of mechanisms, including AR amplification and overexpression, AR mutations, the expression of constitutively active AR variants, intra-tumor androgen synthesis, and promiscuous AR activation by other factors. Although various AR mutations have been reported in prostate cancer, specific AR mutations (L702H, W742L/C, H875Y, F877L, and T878A/S) were frequently identified after treatment resistance emerged. Intriguingly, these hot spot mutations were also revealed to change the binding affinity of ligands including steroids and antiandrogens and potentially result in altered responses to AR pathway inhibitors. Currently, precision medicine utilizing genetic and genomic data to choose suitable treatment for the patient is becoming to play an increasingly important role in clinical practice for prostate cancer management. Since clinical data between AR mutations and the efficacy of AR pathway inhibitors are accumulating, monitoring the AR mutation status is a promising approach for providing precision medicine in prostate cancer, which would be implemented through the development of clinically available testing modalities for AR mutations using liquid biopsy. However, there are few reviews on clinical significance of AR hot spot mutations in prostate cancer. Then, this review summarized the clinical landscape of AR mutations and discussed their potential implication for clinical utilization.
包括雄激素剥夺疗法和雄激素受体 (AR) 通路抑制剂在内的激素治疗已广泛用于治疗晚期前列腺癌。然而,在大多数前列腺癌中,激素治疗后会出现治疗抵抗,这归因于多种机制,包括 AR 扩增和过表达、AR 突变、组成性激活 AR 变体的表达、肿瘤内雄激素合成以及其他因素引起的混杂性 AR 激活。尽管已经在前列腺癌中报道了各种 AR 突变,但在治疗抵抗出现后,经常会发现特定的 AR 突变(L702H、W742L/C、H875Y、F877L 和 T878A/S)。有趣的是,这些热点突变也被发现改变了包括类固醇和抗雄激素在内的配体的结合亲和力,并可能导致对 AR 通路抑制剂的反应改变。目前,利用遗传和基因组数据为患者选择合适治疗方法的精准医学在前列腺癌管理的临床实践中发挥着越来越重要的作用。由于 AR 突变与 AR 通路抑制剂疗效之间的临床数据不断积累,监测 AR 突变状态是提供前列腺癌精准医学的一种很有前途的方法,这将通过开发用于 AR 突变的临床可用液体活检检测方法来实现。然而,关于 AR 热点突变在前列腺癌中的临床意义的综述很少。因此,本文综述了 AR 突变的临床现状,并讨论了它们对临床应用的潜在意义。