Abstract
The Tripartite motif-containing 28 (TRIM28) transcriptional cofactor is significantly upregulated in high-grade and metastatic prostate cancers. To study the role of TRIM28 in prostate cancer progression in vivo, we generated a genetically-engineered mouse model, combining prostate-specific inactivation of Trp53, Pten and Trim28. Trim28 inactivated NPp53T mice developed an inflammatory response and necrosis in prostate lumens. By conducting single-cell RNA sequencing, we found that NPp53T prostates had fewer luminal cells resembling proximal luminal lineage cells, which are cells with progenitor activity enriched in proximal prostates and prostate invagination tips in wild-type mice with analogous populations in human prostates. However, despite increased apoptosis and reduction of cells expressing proximal luminal cell markers, we found that NPp53T mouse prostates evolved and progressed to invasive prostate carcinoma with a shortened overall survival. Altogether, our findings suggest that TRIM28 promotes expression of proximal luminal cell markers in prostate tumor cells and provides insights into TRIM28 function in prostate tumor plasticity.
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Expression data from single-cell RNA sequencing have been deposited in GEO under accession number GEO: GSE199015.
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All unique reagents generated in the study are available from the lead contact with a completed material transfer agreement.
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We thank Shibata lab members and Kate Chiappinelli for comments on the paper, Michael Shen for mice, Chuan-Yuan Li for plasmids, Hunain Khawaja for assistance with animal breeding and colony maintenance, Gregory Cresswell and the GW Flow Cytometry Core, Keith Crandall, Caitlin Loeffler and the GW Genomics Core, the GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center, the McCormick Genomic & Proteomic Center and the GW SMHS Writing Institute. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health NCI grant R00CA194287 to MS.
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Investigation, ASY, ECW, AP, AHelfand, TMN, MS; Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, HI, AHorvath, MS; pathology analysis, PSL; writing—original draft, ASY, ECW, MS; writing—review and editing, all authors; conceptualization, funding acquisition, supervision, MS.
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Yende, A.S., Williams, E.C., Pletcher, A. et al. TRIM28 promotes luminal cell plasticity in a mouse model of prostate cancer. Oncogene 42, 1347–1359 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-023-02655-0
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