Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: seq and ye shall find

C Kumar-Sinha, S Kalyana-Sundaram… - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Enabled by high-throughput sequencing approaches, epithelial cancers across a range of
tissue types are seen to harbor gene fusions as integral to their landscape of somatic …

Distinct structural classes of activating FOXA1 alterations in advanced prostate cancer

A Parolia, M Cieslik, SC Chu, L Xiao, T Ouchi, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abtract Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1) is a pioneer transcription factor that is essential for the
normal development of several endoderm-derived organs, including the prostate gland …

Targetable gene fusions and aberrations in genitourinary oncology

F Pederzoli, M Bandini, L Marandino, SM Ali… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Gene fusions result from either structural chromosomal rearrangement or aberrations
caused by splicing or transcriptional readthrough. The precise and distinctive presence of …

Constitutively active androgen receptor splice variants AR-V3, AR-V7 and AR-V9 are co-expressed in castration-resistant prostate cancer metastases

HML Kallio, R Hieta, L Latonen, A Brofeldt… - British journal of …, 2018 - nature.com
Background A significant subset of prostate cancer (PC) patients with a castration-resistant
form of the disease (CRPC) show primary resistance to androgen receptor (AR)-targeting …

Integrative proteomics in prostate cancer uncovers robustness against genomic and transcriptomic aberrations during disease progression

L Latonen, E Afyounian, A Jylhä, J Nättinen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To understand functional consequences of genetic and transcriptional aberrations in
prostate cancer, the proteomic changes during disease formation and progression need to …

Long noncoding RNA EPCART regulates translation through PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and PDCD4 in prostate cancer

A Kohvakka, M Sattari, J Nättinen, U Aapola… - Cancer Gene …, 2024 - nature.com
While hundreds of cancer-associated long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been
discovered, their functional role in cancer cells is still largely a mystery. An increasing …

Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals PCAT5 as a Novel ERG-Regulated Long Noncoding RNA in Prostate Cancer

A Ylipää, K Kivinummi, A Kohvakka, M Annala… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Castration-resistant prostate cancers (CRPC) that arise after the failure of androgen-
blocking therapies cause most of the deaths from prostate cancer, intensifying the need to …

Androgen-driven fusion genes and chimeric transcripts in prostate cancer

M Scaravilli, S Koivukoski, L Latonen - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Androgens are steroid hormones governing the male reproductive development and
function. As such, androgens and the key mediator of their effects, androgen receptor (AR) …

Chromatin-directed proteomics-identified network of endogenous androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells

KM Launonen, V Paakinaho, G Sigismondo, M Malinen… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment of prostate cancer confronts resistance to androgen receptor (AR)-
targeted therapies. AR-associated coregulators and chromatin proteins hold a great …

Expression and ERG regulation of PIM kinases in prostate cancer

SK Eerola, A Kohvakka, TLJ Tammela… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The three oncogenic PIM family kinases have been implicated in the development of
prostate cancer (PCa). The aim of this study was to examine the mRNA and protein …