Effects of PSF inhibitors in castration-resistant prostate cancer cells

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and AR downstream signalings promote prostate cancer cell proliferation. Although initially hormone-deprovation therapy is effective to inhibit cancer progression, most of cancers relapse as castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). RNA binding protein PSF is upregulated in CRPC tissues comparedd with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Therefore, we examined the effect of newly developed small molecules targeting PSF in CRPC cells. In order to investigate the effect of PSF inhibiton in CRPC cells, we performed gene expression analysis in AR-negative CRPC cell line, DU145. We treated cells with vehicle, No.10-3, or C-30, which are supposed to inhibit PSF function. Observation of gene expression changes in CRPC after treatmet with PSF inhibitors No.10-3 oe C-30 using microarray.