Pioneer of prostate cancer: past, present and the future of FOXA1

M Teng, S Zhou, C Cai, M Lupien, HH He - Protein & Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous cancers in North American
men. While androgen deprivation has remained as the cornerstone of prostate cancer …

Shaping chromatin states in prostate cancer by pioneer transcription factors

W Hankey, Z Chen, Q Wang - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The androgen receptor (AR) is a critical therapeutic target in prostate cancer that responds
to antagonists in primary disease, but inevitably becomes reactivated, signaling onset of the …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of SYNCRIP unleashes APOBEC-driven mutagenesis, tumor heterogeneity, and AR-targeted therapy resistance in prostate cancer

X Li, Y Wang, S Deng, G Zhu, C Wang, NA Johnson… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden and heterogeneity has been suggested to fuel resistance to many
targeted therapies. The cytosine deaminase APOBEC proteins have been implicated in the …

A genomic and epigenomic atlas of prostate cancer in Asian populations

J Li, C Xu, HJ Lee, S Ren, X Zi, Z Zhang, H Wang, Y Yu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. Over the past
decade, large-scale integrative genomics efforts have enhanced our understanding of this …

SETD7 functions as a transcription repressor in prostate cancer via methylating FOXA1

Z Wang, J Petricca, M Liu, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Dysregulation of histone lysine methyltransferases and demethylases is one of the major
mechanisms driving the epigenetic reprogramming of transcriptional networks in castration …

FOXA2 rewires AP-1 for transcriptional reprogramming and lineage plasticity in prostate cancer

Z Wang, SL Townley, S Zhang, M Liu, M Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
FOXA family proteins act as pioneer factors by remodeling compact chromatin structures.
FOXA1 is crucial for the chromatin binding of the androgen receptor (AR) in both normal …

RB1 loss in castration-resistant prostate cancer confers vulnerability to LSD1 inhibition

W Han, M Liu, D Han, M Li, AA Toure, Z Wang… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic loss of RB1 is a common alteration in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)
and is associated with poor patient outcomes. RB1 loss is also a critical event that promotes …

Noncoding mutations target cis-regulatory elements of the FOXA1 plexus in prostate cancer

S Zhou, JR Hawley, F Soares, G Grillo, M Teng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy among men
worldwide. Recurrently mutated in primary and metastatic prostate tumors, FOXA1 encodes …

Toward a mechanistic understanding of DNA binding by forkhead transcription factors and its perturbation by pathogenic mutations

S Dai, L Qu, J Li, Y Chen - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Forkhead box (FOX) proteins are an evolutionarily conserved family of transcription factors
that play numerous regulatory roles in eukaryotes during developmental and adult life …

Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential

J Kneppers, TM Severson, JC Siefert, P Schol… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Androgen receptor (AR) drives prostate cancer (PCa) development and progression. AR
chromatin binding profiles are highly plastic and form recurrent programmatic changes that …