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Record W4417002263 · doi:10.1073/pnas.2500327122

Distinct transcription factor interactions drive HOXB13 activity in different stages of prostate cancer

2025· article· en· W4417002263 on OpenAlexafffund
Betul Ersoy-Fazlioglu, Shreyas Lingadahalli, Umut Berkay Altıntaş, Ahmet Cingöz, Emirhan Tekoglu, Ivan Pak Lok Yu, Meric Dikbas, Olka Missaghimamaghani, Kerim Yavuz, Hans Adomat, İbrahim Kulaç, Tunç Morova, Kevin Xiao, Martin Gleave, Ladan Fazli, Paloma Cejas, Artem Cherkasov, Wilbert Zwart, Michael C. Haffner, Henry W. Long, Colin C. Collins, Tugba Bagcı-Önder, Nathan A. Lack

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicProstate Cancer Treatment and Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research - Antimicrobial Resistance Research InitiativeNorth SporeCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNational Cancer InstituteProstate Cancer FoundationNational Institutes of HealthUlusal Metroloji Enstitüsü, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma KurumuKoç Üniversitesi Translasyonel Tıp Araştırma MerkeziTürkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma KurumuProstate Cancer Fight Foundation
KeywordsProstate cancerTranscription factorChromatinAndrogen receptorTranscription (linguistics)Chromatin remodelingNuclear receptor

Abstract

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HOXB13 is a lineage-specific transcription factor that plays a critical role in initiation and progression of prostate cancer (PCa). While most research has focused on the role of HOXB13 on androgen receptor (AR) activity, here we demonstrate that HOXB13 is frequently expressed in AR-negative tumors and is essential for the proliferation of both AR-positive and -negative PCa models. Strikingly, HOXB13 is remarkably selective and has almost no effect on nonprostatic tissues. Despite this common essentiality in PCa, HOXB13 activity is markedly different in AR-negative stem cell-like tumors, where interactions with the AP-1 change the HOXB13 cistrome and interactome. Yet despite these distinct activities, HOXB13 activity is commonly mediated by SMARCD2, a member of the mSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex. The HOXB13/SMARCD2 interaction alters chromatin accessibility at HOXB13-binding sites, causing increased proliferation in AR-negative PCa. Overall, this work demonstrates a distinct mechanism of action for HOXB13 and highlights its critical role in AR-negative castration-resistant PCa.

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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 score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

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)0.0030.001

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 head0.061
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.330 · 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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