www.oncotarget.com Oncotarget, 2019, Vol. 10, (No. 42), pp: 4290-4306 Research Paper Comparative RNA-seq analysis reveals dys-regulation of major canonical pathways in ERG-inducible LNCaP cell progression model of prostate cancer Parameet Kumar1, Joyeeta Chakraborty2, Gauthaman Sukumar1,3, Clifton Dalgard1,4, Raghunath Chatterjee2 and Roopa Biswas1 1Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA 2Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India 3Collaborative Health Initiative Research Program, Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD, USA 4The American Genome Center, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA Correspondence to: Roopa Biswas, email:
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[email protected] Keywords: RNAseq; prostate cancer; LNCaP cells; ERG; mRNA Received: December 29, 2018 Accepted: May 30, 2019 Published: July 02, 2019 Copyright: Kumar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT Prostate Cancer (CaP) is the second leading cause of cancer related death in USA. In human CaP, gene fusion between androgen responsive regulatory elements at the 5'-untranslated region of TMPRSS2 and ETS-related genes (ERG) is present in at least 50% of prostate tumors. Here we have investigated the unique cellular transcriptome associated with over-expression of ERG in ERG-inducible LNCaP cell model system of human CaP. Comprehensive transcriptome analyses reveal a distinct signature that distinguishes ERG dependent and independent CaP in LNCaP cells.