GSE130311
Aberrant stabilized ETV4 expression cooperates with loss of p53 to promote invasive prostate carcinoma
Chromosomal translocations or upregulations involving ETS transcription factor are frequent events in prostate cancer pathogenesis and significantly co-occurrence with p53 or PTEN loss. Caused by the low stabilities of ETS proteins in cytosol, mouse models with aberrant expression of wild type ETS transcription factors had subtle phenotypes and only drive prostate cancer progression in the setting of Pten loss. Here we show that prostate specific aberrant expression of mutated ETV4 (V70P71D72-AAA, ETV4-AAA), which is resistence to COP1 mediated protein degradation, results in more stabilized ETV4 protein in mouse prostate. We found that ETV4-AAA mice develop marked prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (mPin) and p53-dependent cell senescence within 2 weeks, but without tumor development when aged. Interestingly, ETV4-AAA positive cells reduce dramatically in a PTEN loss background, which means that there is no cooperation between ETV4-AAA and PTEN loss. Aberrant ETV4-AAA expression promotes progression of mPin to prostatic adenocarcinoma in a Tp53 deficiency or haploinsufficiency background. In contrast to PTEN loss induced mouse prostate cancers which loss NKX3.1 expression and resistant to castration therapy, these ETV4-AAA tumor cells well maintain AR and NKX3.1 expression and are sensitive to castration therapy. Overall design: Assay for transposase-accessible chromatin and transcriptome profiling in EYFP, ETV4WT and ETV4AAA mouse prostate cells.