DTIC ADA579691: Evaluating the Efficacy of ERG Targeted Therapy In ... | |
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The proposed research will examine the suitability of ERG | |
as a target for prostate cancer therapy by using novel | |
modular inducible transgenic mice. Prostate cancer is a | |
large health problem in the United States. Recent efforts | |
to classify distinct molecular subtypes of prostate | |
cancer have shown that 50% of prostate cancers possess a | |
chromosomal translocation involving the ERG oncogene. I | |
hypothesized that ERG can serve as an effective molecular | |
therapeutic target for prostate tumors. I planned to show | |
this with novel autochthonous prostate tumor mouse | |
models. During this second year of support we have not | |
been able to been able to adhere to the timeline of our | |
Statement of Work - Task#2 - Determine if ERG cooperates | |
with AKT1 for prostate tumorigenesis (months 14-34). We | |
were previously successful at completing the tasks for | |
Task#1 - Generate and characterize an inducible ERG | |
prostate specific mouse model (months 1-17), but our | |
characterization of ERG expression from our prostate | |
inducible mouse model did not demonstrate any detectable | |
prostate specific ERG expression at the protein level. | |
Data from another project using the ARR2PB-tTA line has | |
lead us to believe that the level of expression from the | |
ARR2PB-tTA line is low and perhaps insufficient for the | |
in vivo experiments described in our proposal. We are now | |
planning to pursue the Hoxb13-rtTA mouse line allows for | |
much more robust expression of tetO target genes in the | |
mouse prostate. | |
Date Published: 2018-09-10 15:31:54 | |
Identifier: DTIC_ADA579691 | |
Item Size: 16939173 | |
Language: english | |
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