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ArticleOncogene2025

A TBX2-driven signaling switch from androgen receptor to glucocorticoid receptor confers therapeutic resistance in prostate cancer.

Sayanika Dutta, Hamed Khedmatgozar, Girijesh Kumar Patel, Daniel Latour, Jonathan Welsh, Mainak Mustafi, Antonina Mitrofanova, Manisha Tripathi, Srinivas Nandana

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Article in Oncogene, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Sayanika DuttaDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Hamed KhedmatgozarDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Girijesh Kumar PatelDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4660-5876
Daniel LatourDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Jonathan WelshDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Mainak MustafiRutgers School of Health Professions, Department of Health Informatics, Newark, NJ, USA.
Antonina MitrofanovaRutgers School of Health Professions, Department of Health Informatics, Newark, NJ, USA.
Manisha TripathiDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA. Manisha.Tripathi@ttuhsc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6719-7899
Srinivas NandanaDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA. Srinivas.Nandana@ttuhsc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-9074

Funding

Generalizable biomedical informatics strategies for predictive modeling of treatment responseR01LM013236 · NLM · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MITROFANOVA, ANTONINA · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas) RP210154NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013236U.S. Department of Defense (United States Department of Defense) W81XWH-16-1-0174U.S. Department of Defense (United States Department of Defense) W81XWH-17-1-0353
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) activation can cause enzalutamide resistance in advanced prostate cancer (PCa) via functional bypass of androgen receptor (AR) signaling. However, the specific molecular mechanism(s) driving this process remain unknown. We have previously reported that the transcription factor TBX2 is over-expressed in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). In this study, using human PCa and CRPC cell line models, we demonstrate that TBX2 downregulates AR and upregulates GR through direct transcriptional regulation. TBX2 also activated the GR via TBX2-GR protein-protein interactions. Together, TBX2-driven repression of AR and activation of GR resulted in enzalutamide resistance. Our laboratory findings are supported by clinical samples, which show a similar and consistent pattern of transcriptional activity among TBX2, AR and GR across patient cohorts. Notably, we report that SP2509, an allosteric inhibitor of the demethylase-independent function of LSD1 (a TBX2-interacting protein in the COREST complex) disrupts both TBX2-LSD1 and TBX2-GR protein-protein interactions, revealing a unique mode of SP2509 action in CRPC. Taken together, our study identifies the TBX2-driven AR- to GR- signaling switch as a molecular mechanism underlying enzalutamide resistance and provides key insights into a potential therapeutic approach for targeting this switch by disrupting TBX2-GR and TBX2-LSD1 protein-protein interactions.

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Drug Resistance, NeoplasmProstatic NeoplasmsProstatic Neoplasms, Castration-ResistantReceptors, AndrogenReceptors, GlucocorticoidT-Box Domain ProteinsBenzamidesCell Line, TumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMaleNitrilesPhenylthiohydantoinSignal TransductionAR protein, humanBenzamidesenzalutamideNitrilesPhenylthiohydantoinReceptors, AndrogenReceptors, GlucocorticoidT-Box Domain Protein 2T-Box Domain Proteins

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PMID39702503
PMCPMC11932930

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