The PI3K regulatory subunit gene PIK3R1 is under direct control of androgens and repressed in prostate cancer cells.


Munkley, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-8631-4531, Livermore, Karen E, McClurg, Urszula L ORCID: 0000-0003-2631-4174, Kalna, Gabriela, Knight, Bridget, McCullagh, Paul, McGrath, John, Crundwell, Malcolm, Leung, Hing Y ORCID: 0000-0002-3933-3975, Robson, Craig N et al (show 3 more authors) (2015) The PI3K regulatory subunit gene PIK3R1 is under direct control of androgens and repressed in prostate cancer cells. Oncoscience, 2 (9). pp. 755-764.

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Abstract

Androgen receptor (AR) signalling and the PI3K pathway mediate survival signals in prostate cancer, and have been shown to regulate each other by reciprocal negative feedback, such that inhibition of one activates the other. Understanding the reciprocal regulation of these pathways is important for disease management as tumour cells can adapt and survive when either single pathway is inhibited pharmacologically. We recently carried out genome-wide exon-specific profiling of prostate cancer cells to identify novel androgen-regulated transcriptional events. Here we interrogated this dataset for novel androgen-regulated genes associated with the PI3K pathway. We find that the PI3K regulatory subunits PIK3R1 (p85α) and PIK3R3 (p55γ) are direct targets of the AR which are rapidly repressed by androgens in LNCaP cells. Further characterisation revealed that the PIK3CA p110α catalytic subunit is also indirectly regulated by androgens at the protein level. We show that PIK3R1 mRNA is significantly under-expressed in prostate cancer (PCa) tissue, and provide data to suggest a context-dependent regulatory mechanism whereby repression of the p85α protein by the AR results in destabilisation of the PI3K p110α catalytic subunit and downstream PI3K pathway inhibition that functionally affects the properties of prostate cancer cells.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: PI3K signalling, PIK3R1, androgens, p85α, prostate cancer
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2018 12:44
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:13
DOI: 10.18632/oncoscience.243
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028468
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