Abstract

One mechanism of resistance of prostate cancer (PCa) to enzalutamide (MDV3100) treatment is the increased expression of AR variants lacking the ligand binding-domain, the best characterized of which is AR-V7. We have previously reported that Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase alpha (PIP5Kα), is a lipid kinase that links to CDK1 and AR pathways. The discovery of PIP5Kα inhibitor highlight the potential of PIP5K1α as a drug target in PCa. In this study, we show that AR-V7 expression positively correlates with PIP5K1α in tumor specimens from PCa patients. Overexpression of AR-V7 increases PIP5K1α, promotes rapid growth of PCa in xenograft mice, whereas inhibition of PIP5K1α by its inhibitor ISA-2011B suppresses the growth and invasiveness of xenograft tumors overexpressing AR-V7. PIP5K1α is a key co-factor for both AR-V7 and AR, which are present as protein-protein complexes predominantly in the nucleus of PCa cells. In addition, PIP5K1α and CDK1 influence AR-V7 expression also through AKT-associated mechanism dependent on PTEN-status. ISA-2011B disrupts protein stabilization of AR-V7 which is dependent on PIP5K1α, leading to suppression of invasive growth of AR-V7-high tumors in xenograft mice. Our study suggests that combination of enzalutamide and PIP5K1α may have a significant impact on refining therapeutic strategies to circumvent resistance to antiandrogen therapies.

Highlights

  • Considerable progress is being made to improve therapy of prostate cancer (PCa), one-third of treated PCa patients will experience disease recurrence and will progress into castration-resistant PCa (CRPC), which are no www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget longer responsive to anti-androgen therapies [1,2,3,4]

  • A second tissue microarrays (TMAs) that contained biopsies of begin prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and cancer tissues from 48 PCa patients was examined for ARV7 and PIP5K1α expression

  • Increasing evidence suggests that AR-V7 is involved in development of CRPC, bone metastasis and resistance to enzalutamide[5, 7, 8]

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Introduction

Considerable progress is being made to improve therapy of PCa, one-third of treated PCa patients will experience disease recurrence and will progress into castration-resistant PCa (CRPC), which are no www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget longer responsive to anti-androgen therapies [1,2,3,4]. One mechanism of resistance to antiandrogen treatment is the increased expression of AR variants lacking the ligand binding-domain, the best characterized of which is ARV7 [5,6,7]. Enzalutamide is beneficial for patients with metastatic CRPC, giving an increasing in survival [11, 12], a rapid development of resistance in PCa patients to enzalutamide treatment remain to be a major clinical challenge [11]. The increased level of AR-V7 transcript was detected in circulating tumor cells from PCa patients who developed enzalutamide resistance [13]. The AR-V7-mediated cellular mechanisms in resistance to enzalutamide remain poorly understood

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