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Record W4415251302 · doi:10.1101/2025.10.15.682547

The Androgen Receptor and MYC synergise to modulate the synthesis of Siglec-7 ligands in prostate cancer

2025· preprint· en· W4415251302 on OpenAlexaff
Adam Duxfield, Rebecca Garnham, Esme Hutton, Adam Dowle, Sara Luzzi, Ryan Nelson, Emma Lishman-Walker, Rianna Magee, Adriana Buskin, Anastasia C. Hepburn, Emirhan Tekoglu, Kaidan Maloney-Friar, Fiona M. Frame, Norman J. Maitland, Ann Hedley, Holly E. Henderson, Benjamin McCullough, Bharat Gowardhan, Kanagasabai Sahadevan, Stuart McCracken, Luke Gaughan, Rakesh Heer, Craig Robson, Kelly Coffey, Nathan A. Lack, Nathalie Signoret, Martin A. Fascione, Emma Scott

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicTannin, Tannase and Anticancer Activities
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersCancer Research UK
KeywordsProstate cancerAndrogen receptorTranscription factorImmunotherapyCancerImmune systemAndrogenTranscription (linguistics)

Abstract

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Abstract Glyco-immune checkpoints have recently been shown to be critical mediators of immunotherapy resistance across multiple cancer types. In clinical trials, immunotherapeutic treatments for prostate cancer have failed to elicit durable clinical responses. PCa progression is driven by transcriptional networks regulated by key transcription factors including the androgen receptor (AR) and the oncogene MYC. How this crossover between hormone and oncogene-driven signalling pathways regulates tumour glyco-immune checkpoints remains unclear. Here, we show that O -glycans are the major substrates for sialylation in prostate cancer and that sialyltransferases that have preferences for O -glycans are differentially regulated by androgens. We show that supraphysiological levels of androgens produce distinct glycopeptide profiles in prostate cancer cells compared with cells exposed to physiological androgens. Additionally, we identify a direct and coordinated role for AR and MYC in regulating ST3Gal1 and the synthesis of Siglec-7 ligands in prostate cancer. Both transcription factors converge to repress ST3GAL1 , thereby limiting the generation of Siglec-7 ligands. These findings highlight a context-dependent, cooperative relationship between the AR and MYC in shaping the tumour sialome, linking hormonal signalling and oncogenic transcription to Siglec biology. Our study highlights how cell-type specific differences in transcriptional networks has important downstream effects for immune modulating glycans and has tumour specific clinical implications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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