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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jennifer Munkley, Karen Livermore, Dr Ingrid Ehrmann, Dr Katherine JamesORCiD, Dr Prabhakar Rajan, Professor David Elliott
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Background: Androgen steroid hormones are key drivers of prostate cancer. Previous work has shown that androgens can drive the expression of alternative mRNA isoforms as well as transcriptional changes in prostate cancer cells. Yet to what extent androgens control alternative mRNA isoforms and how these are expressed and differentially regulated in prostate tumours is unknown.Methods: Here we have used RNA-Seq data to globally identify alternative mRNA isoform expression under androgen control in prostate cancer cells, and profiled the expression of these mRNA isoforms in clinical tissue.Results: Our data indicate androgens primarily switch mRNA isoforms through alternative promoter selection. We detected 73 androgen regulated alternative transcription events, including utilisation of 56 androgen-dependent alternative promoters, 13 androgen-regulated alternative splicing events, and selection of 4 androgen-regulated alternative 3′ mRNA ends. 64 of these events are novel to this study, and 26 involve previously unannotated isoforms. We validated androgen dependent regulation of 17 alternative isoforms by quantitative PCR in an independent sample set. Some of the identified mRNA isoforms are in genes already implicated in prostate cancer (including LIG4, FDFT1 and RELAXIN), or in genes important in other cancers (e.g. NUP93 and MAT2A). Importantly, analysis of transcriptome data from 497 tumour samples in the TGCA prostate adenocarcinoma (PRAD) cohort identified 13 mRNA isoforms (including TPD52, TACC2 and NDUFV3) that are differentially regulated in localised prostate cancer relative to normal tissue, and 3 (OSBPL1A, CLK3 and TSC22D3) which change significantly with Gleason grade and tumour stage.Conclusions: Our findings dramatically increase the number of known androgen regulated isoforms in prostate cancer, and indicate a highly complex response to androgens in prostate cancer cells that could be clinically important.
Author(s): Munkley J, Maia TM, Ibarluzea N, Livermore KE, Vodak D, Ehrmann I, James K, Rajan P, Barbosa-Morais NL, Elliott DJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: F1000 Research
Year: 2018
Volume: 7
Issue: 7
Pages: 1189
Online publication date: 03/08/2018
Acceptance date: 01/08/2018
Date deposited: 09/08/2018
ISSN (electronic): 2046-1402
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.15604.1
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.15604.1
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