Transcriptome profiling of castration resistant prostate cancer cells treated with novel AR N-terminal inhibitor

This study aimed at exploring how would the novel AR N-terminal inhibitor affect the androgen receptor (AR) transcriptome, especially a subset of genes that are uniquely upregulated by AR-V7 in castration resistant prostate cancer cells. We performed next-generation sequencing-based gene expression profiling (RNA-sequencing) on the castration-resistant prostate cancer celll line LNCaP-95. LNCaP-95 expresses high level of endogeneous AR-V7, and also acquired an adaptive shift towards AR-V7-mediated AR signaling activity. Beside regulating the transcription of a subset of canonical wildtype AR genes, AR-V7 also mediates a distinct transcriptional program that is independent of wildtype AR in LNCaP-95. In this experiment, LNCaP-95 cells were treated with vehicle control or the AR-N terminal inhibitor SC912. The subsequent AR transcriptomic change following compound treatment, especially the AR-V7 unique genes were assessed by RNA-seq. A total of two treatment groups were analyzed in this study, and each treatment group contains four biological replicates. LNCaP-95 cells were treated with DMSO or 2 μM SC912 for 24 hours, total RNA was isolated and then submitted for RNA-sequencing analysis.