ArticleOncotarget2014
Androgen deprivation therapy sensitizes prostate cancer cells to T-cell killing through androgen receptor dependent modulation of the apoptotic pathway.
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- The potential of CAR T cell therapy for prostate cancer.Nature reviews. Urology · 2021Review
- Exploiting off-target effects of estrogen deprivation to sensitize estrogen receptor negative breast cancer to immune killing.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2021Article
- NAIP expression increases in a rat model of liver mass restoration.Journal of molecular histology · 2021Article
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- Hormone-Related Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases: A Complex Interplay to be Discovered.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Review
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- From Immunogenic Cell Death to Immunogenic Modulation: Select Chemotherapy Regimens Induce a Spectrum of Immune-Enhancing Activities in the Tumor Microenvironment.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Review
- Natural Born Killers: NK Cells in Cancer Therapy.Cancers · 2020Review
- Androgen receptor in bladder cancer: A promising therapeutic target.Asian journal of urology · 2020Review
- Influence of Androgens on Immunity to Self and Foreign: Effects on Immunity and Cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Despite recent advances in diagnosis and management, prostrate cancer remains the second most common cause of death from cancer in American men, after lung cancer. Failure of chemotherapies and hormone-deprivation therapies is the major cause of death in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Currently, the androgen inhibitors enzalutamide and abiraterone are approved for treatment of metastatic CRPC. Here we show for the first time that both enzalutamide and abiraterone render prostate tumor cells more sensitive to T cell-mediated lysis through immunogenic modulation, and that these immunomodulatory activities are androgen receptor (AR)-dependent. In studies reported here, the NAIP gene was significantly down-regulated in human prostate tumor cells treated in vitro and in vivo with enzalutamide. Functional analysis revealed that NAIP played a critical role in inducing CTL sensitivity. Amplification of AR is a major mechanism of resistance to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). Here, we show that enzalutamide enhances sensitivity to immune-mediated killing of prostate tumor cells that overexpress AR. The immunomodulatory properties of enzalutamide and abiraterone provide a rationale for their use in combination with immunotherapeutic agents in CRPC, especially for patients with minimal response to enzalutamide or abiraterone alone, or for patients who have developed resistance to ADT.
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