ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2021
Stromal androgen and hedgehog signaling regulates stem cell niches in pubertal prostate development.
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- Visualizing androgen signaling and assessing its interaction with canonical Wnt signaling pathways in prostate development, morphogenesis, and regeneration.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Tracing the Evolution of Sex Hormones and Receptor-Mediated Immune Microenvironmental Differences in Prostate and Bladder Cancers: From Embryonic Development to Disease.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Stromal androgen signaling governs essential niches in supporting prostate development and tumorigenesis.Oncogene · 2024Review
- Streamlined identification of clinically and functionally relevant genetic regulators of lower-tract urogenital development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- YAP is required for prostate development, regeneration, and prostate stem cell function.Cell death discovery · 2023Article
- A novel co-culture model of human prostate epithelial and stromal cells for androgenic and antiandrogenic screening.Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA · 2023Article
- Prostate organogenesis.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- The most effective but largely ignored target for prostate cancer early detection and intervention.Journal of Cancer · 2022Article
- Role of prostate stem cells and treatment strategies in benign prostate hyperplasia.American journal of clinical and experimental urology · 2022Review
- Interaction between prostate cancer stem cells and bone microenvironment regulates prostate cancer bone metastasis and treatment resistance.Journal of Cancer · 2022Review
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Abstract
Stromal androgen-receptor (AR) action is essential for prostate development, morphogenesis and regeneration. However, mechanisms underlying how stromal AR maintains the cell niche in support of pubertal prostatic epithelial growth are unknown. Here, using advanced mouse genetic tools, we demonstrate that selective deletion of stromal AR expression in prepubescent Shh-responsive Gli1-expressing cells significantly impedes pubertal prostate epithelial growth and development. Single-cell transcriptomic analyses showed that AR loss in these prepubescent Gli1-expressing cells dysregulates androgen signaling-initiated stromal-epithelial paracrine interactions, leading to growth retardation of pubertal prostate epithelia and significant development defects. Specifically, AR loss elevates Shh-signaling activation in both prostatic stromal and adjacent epithelial cells, directly inhibiting prostatic epithelial growth. Single-cell trajectory analyses further identified aberrant differentiation fates of prostatic epithelial cells directly altered by stromal AR deletion. In vivo recombination of AR-deficient stromal Gli1-lineage cells with wild-type prostatic epithelial cells failed to develop normal prostatic epithelia. These data demonstrate previously unidentified mechanisms underlying how stromal AR-signaling facilitates Shh-mediated cell niches in pubertal prostatic epithelial growth and development.
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