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Vol 49(2015) N 5 p. 638-648; DOI 10.1134/S0026893315050118 G.S. Krasnov1,2,3*, A.A. Dmitriev1,2, A.F. Sadritdinova1, N.N. Volchenko2, E.N. Slavnova2, T.V. Danilova2, A.V. Snezhkina1, N.V. Melnikova1, M.S. Fedorova1, V.A. Lakunina1, A.A. Belova1, K.M. Nyushko2, B.Y. Alekseev2, A.D. Kaprin2, A.V. Kudryavtseva1,2 Molecular genetic mechanisms of drug resistance in prostate cancer 1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia2Herzen Moscow Cancer Research Institute, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 125284, Russia 3Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 119121, Russia *gskrasnov@mail.ru Received - 2014-12-25; Accepted - 2015-03-07 Drug resistance and especially cross-resistance are the most important problems of therapy of prostate cancer. Drug resistance mechanisms, including ligand-dependent (requiring the presence of androgens in the cell) and independent (not requiring androgens) ones, are reviewed. The mechanisms are mainly based on mutations of the androgen receptor (AR) gene, expression of aberrant constitutively active AR splice variants, and upregulation of androgen synthesis genes. prostate cancer, drug resistance, androgen receptor, androgens, abiraterone, enzalutamide, mutations, splice variants |