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Clusterin as a Target for Treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

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Secretory clusterin (sCLU) is a stress-induced cytoprotective ­molecular chaperone upregulated in an adaptive survival manner by various triggers to confer acquired treatment resistance. sCLU inhibits stress-induced apoptosis and induces epithelial mesenchymal transition by modulating pro-survival signaling and transcriptional networks. sCLU is associated with poor prognosis and treatment resistance including radiation, hormone, or chemotherapy. sCLU acts through an ATP-independent mechanism making this target less amenable to inhibition by small molecules, and so strategies to inhibit CLU at the gene expression level are required. In this chapter, we will review the rationale for targeting sCLU in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and discuss the current status of preclinical and clinical studies using sCLU antisense (OGX-011) as a therapeutic target in CRPC.

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Zoubeidi, A., Gleave, M. (2013). Clusterin as a Target for Treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. In: Wang, Z. (eds) Androgen-Responsive Genes in Prostate Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6182-1_20

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