TY - DATA T1 - Targeting the ribosome to treat advanced prostate cancer PY - 2017/08/02 AU - RICHARD JOSEPH REBELLO UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Targeting_the_ribosome_to_treat_advanced_prostate_cancer/5263501 DO - 10.4225/03/5982604089157 KW - Prostate KW - MYC KW - PIM KW - Ribosome KW - Cancer Cell Biology KW - Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy) N2 - Metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) remains incurable, highlighting the need for new therapeutic targets. Prostate epithelium is exquisitely sensitive to MYC activity and MYC is universally overexpressed in mCRPC. One key process in cancer cells is to accelerate growth via stimulation of high levels of ribosome biogenesis through regulation of RNA polymerase I (Pol I). This thesis describes preclinical evidence that co-targeting Pol I transcriptional activity and PIM kinases is an effective means of inhibiting MYC-driven prostate cancer. We employ numerous pre-clinical models of PC which shows the efficacy of therapies that combine to target MYC-directed signaling to the ribosome. ER -