Rearranged ERG confers robustness to prostate cancer cells by subverting the function of p53.

Urologic Oncology
Adam KaczorowskiStefan Duensing

Abstract

ERG rearrangements are frequent and early events in prostate cancer. The functional role of rearranged ERG, however, is still incompletely understood. ERG rearrangements are maintained during prostate cancer progression suggesting that they may confer a selective advantage. The molecular basis of this notion is the subject of this study. A variety of immunological methods were used to characterize the effects of rearranged ERG on p53. Consequences of an overexpression of N-terminally deleted ERG on p53 function were interrogated by measuring apoptosis and cellular senescence in the presence or absence of exogenous DNA damage. Effects of N-terminally deleted ERG on the transactivation function of p53 were analyzed by qRT-PCR. We show that overexpression of ERG leads to an increased basal level of DNA damage and a stabilization of p53 that involves a sequestration of its E3 ubiquitin ligase, MDM2, into nucleoli. A higher p53 expression was also observed in vivo in an ERG-overexpressing prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia mouse model. The correlation between ERG and p53 expression was corroborated in 163 patients with prostate cancer. ERG overexpression was found to inhibit both apoptosis and cellular senescence induced by exogeno...Continue Reading

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Dec 15, 2020·Neoplasia : an International Journal for Oncology Research·Yoshiki TakamatsuMakoto Hashimoto

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