Opposing transcriptional programs of KLF5 and AR emerge during therapy for advanced prostate cancer

Meixia Che; Aashi Chaturvedi; Sarah A. Munro; Samuel P. Pitzen; Alex Ling; Weijie Zhang; Josh Mentzer; Sheng Yu Ku; Loredana Puca; Yanyun Zhu; Andries M. Bergman; Tesa M. Severson; Colleen Forster; Yuzhen Liu; Jacob Hildebrand; Mark Daniel; Ting You Wang; Luke A. Selth; Theresa Hickey; Amina Zoubeidi; Martin Gleave; Rohan Bareja; Andrea Sboner; Wayne Tilley; Jason S. Carroll; Winston Tan; Manish Kohli; Rendong Yang; Andrew C. Hsieh; Paari Murugan; Wilbert Zwart; Himisha Beltran; R. Stephanie Huang; Scott M. Dehm

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26612-1

Opposing transcriptional programs of KLF5 and AR emerge during therapy for advanced prostate cancer

Meixia Che
, Aashi Chaturvedi
, Sarah A. Munro
, Samuel P. Pitzen
, Alex Ling
, Weijie Zhang
, Josh Mentzer
, Sheng Yu Ku
, Loredana Puca
, Yanyun Zhu
, Andries M. Bergman
, Tesa M. Severson
, Colleen Forster
, Yuzhen Liu
, Jacob Hildebrand
, Mark Daniel
, Ting You Wang
, Luke A. Selth
, Theresa Hickey
, Amina Zoubeidi

Martin Gleave, Rohan Bareja, Andrea Sboner, Wayne Tilley, Jason S. Carroll, Winston Tan, Manish Kohli, Rendong Yang, Andrew C. Hsieh, Paari Murugan, Wilbert Zwart, Himisha Beltran, R. Stephanie Huang, Scott M. Dehm

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Abstract

Endocrine therapies for prostate cancer inhibit the androgen receptor (AR) transcription factor. In most cases, AR activity resumes during therapy and drives progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, therapy can also promote lineage plasticity and select for AR-independent phenotypes that are uniformly lethal. Here, we demonstrate the stem cell transcription factor Krüppel-like factor 5 (KLF5) is low or absent in prostate cancers prior to endocrine therapy, but induced in a subset of CRPC, including CRPC displaying lineage plasticity. KLF5 and AR physically interact on chromatin and drive opposing transcriptional programs, with KLF5 promoting cellular migration, anchorage-independent growth, and basal epithelial cell phenotypes. We identify ERBB2 as a point of transcriptional convergence displaying activation by KLF5 and repression by AR. ERBB2 inhibitors preferentially block KLF5-driven oncogenic phenotypes. These findings implicate KLF5 as an oncogene that can be upregulated in CRPC to oppose AR activities and promote lineage plasticity.

Original language	English
Article number	6377
Number of pages	15
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26612-1
Publication status	Published - 4 Nov 2021

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Keywords

Kruppel-like factor 5
KLF5
androgen receptor
transcription factor
endocrine therapy
ERBB2
oncogenic phenotypes

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Che, M., Chaturvedi, A., Munro, S. A., Pitzen, S. P., Ling, A., Zhang, W., Mentzer, J., Ku, S. Y., Puca, L., Zhu, Y., Bergman, A. M., Severson, T. M., Forster, C., Liu, Y., Hildebrand, J., Daniel, M., Wang, T. Y., Selth, L. A., Hickey, T., ... Dehm, S. M. (2021). Opposing transcriptional programs of KLF5 and AR emerge during therapy for advanced prostate cancer. Nature Communications, 12, Article 6377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26612-1

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