White Button Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) Disrupts Androgen Receptor Signaling in Human Prostate Cancer Cells (LNCaP)

Purpose: To evalute the antagonistic effects of White Button Mushroom/WBM extract on AR signaling in human prostate cance cells. Methods: LNCaP cells were treated with 1 nM DHT, with or without WBM extract (3 μL/mL), for 48h, in triplicates, and total RNA was isolated and sequenced. Results: We identified 155 up-regulated genes (Fold-change ≥ 2, p<0.05) versus 185 down-regulated genes (Fold-change ≤ 0.5, p<0.05). Conclusion: White Button Mushroom suppressed androgen respsonive genens and cell cycle division genes Collectively, these results suggest that WBM extract affects prostate cancer by interrupting AR-dependent cell cycle division and DNA replication. LNCaP cells were treated with 1 nM DHT, with or without WBM extract (3 μL/mL), for 48h, in triplicates, and total RNA was isolated and sequenced.