The oestrogen receptor alpha-regulated lncRNA NEAT1 is a critical modulator of prostate cancer

Dimple Chakravarty, Andrea Sboner, Sujit S. Nair, Eugenia Giannopoulou, Ruohan Li, Sven Hennig, Juan Miguel Mosquera, Jonathan Pauwels, Kyung Park, Myriam Kossai, Theresa Y. Macdonald, Jacqueline Fontugne, Nicholas Erho, Ismael A. Vergara, Mercedeh Ghadessi, Elai Davicioni, Robert B. Jenkins, Nallasivam Palanisamy, Zhengming Chen, Shinichi NakagawaTetsuro Hirose, Neil H. Bander, Himisha Beltran, Archa H. Fox, Olivier Elemento, Mark A. Rubin

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Abstract

The androgen receptor (AR) plays a central role in establishing an oncogenic cascade that drives prostate cancer progression. Some prostate cancers escape androgen dependence and are often associated with an aggressive phenotype. The oestrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is expressed in prostate cancers, independent of AR status. However, the role of ERα remains elusive. Using a combination of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and RNA-sequencing data, we identified an ERα -specific non-coding transcriptome signature. Among putatively ERα -regulated intergenic long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), we identified nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) as the most significantly overexpressed lncRNA in prostate cancer. Analysis of two large clinical cohorts also revealed that NEAT1 expression is associated with prostate cancer progression. Prostate cancer cells expressing high levels of NEAT1 were recalcitrant to androgen or AR antagonists. Finally, we provide evidence that NEAT1 drives oncogenic growth by altering the epigenetic landscape of target gene promoters to favour transcription.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5383
JournalNature communications
Volume5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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