International union of basic and clinical pharmacology CXIII: Nuclear receptor superfamily—Update 2023

TP Burris, IMS de Vera, I Cote, CA Flaveny… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The NR superfamily comprises 48 transcription factors in humans that control a plethora of
gene network programs involved in a wide range of physiologic processes. This review will …

Etiology of super-enhancer reprogramming and activation in cancer

RW Zhou, RE Parsons - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2023 - Springer
Super-enhancers are large, densely concentrated swaths of enhancers that regulate genes
critical for cell identity. Tumorigenesis is accompanied by changes in the super-enhancer …

The MURAL collection of prostate cancer patient-derived xenografts enables discovery through preclinical models of uro-oncology

GP Risbridger, AK Clark, LH Porter, R Toivanen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Preclinical testing is a crucial step in evaluating cancer therapeutics. We aimed to establish
a significant resource of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) of prostate cancer for rapid and …

Dynamic phase separation of the androgen receptor and its coactivators key to regulate gene expression

F Zhang, M Biswas, S Massah, J Lee… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Numerous cancers, including prostate cancer (PCa), are addicted to transcription programs
driven by specific genomic regions known as super-enhancers (SEs). The robust …

Patient-derived xenografts and organoids recapitulate castration-resistant prostate cancer with sustained androgen receptor signaling

A Van Hemelryk, I Tomljanovic, CMA de Ridder… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) remains an incurable and lethal malignancy.
The development of new CRPC treatment strategies is strongly impeded by the scarcity of …

Androgen receptor and estrogen receptor variants in prostate and breast cancers

JCV López, CA Lange, SM Dehm - The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The androgen receptor (AR) and estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) are steroid receptor
transcription factors with critical roles in the development and progression of prostate and …

CX-5461 sensitizes DNA damage repair–proficient castrate-resistant prostate cancer to PARP inhibition

MG Lawrence, LH Porter, N Choo, D Pook… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Monotherapy with PARP inhibitors is effective for the subset of castrate-resistant prostate
cancer (CRPC) with defects in homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair. New treatments …

Harnessing the heterogeneity of prostate cancer for target discovery using patient-derived explants

MM Centenera, AD Vincent, M Moldovan, HM Lin… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a widespread push toward more biologically relevant pre-clinical
models of prostate cancer that can improve the discovery and translation of new drugs and …

The future of patient-derived xenografts in prostate cancer research

MG Lawrence, RA Taylor, GB Cuffe, LS Ang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) are generated by engrafting human tumours into mice.
Serially transplantable PDXs are used to study tumour biology and test therapeutics, linking …

Prognostic value of genomic mutations in metastatic prostate cancer

H Zhu, Y Ding, H Huang, Q Lin, W Chen, Z Yu - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) has a poor prognosis, and new treatment strategies are
currently being offered for patients in clinical practice, but mPC is still incurable. A …