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. 2022 Sep 1;13(9):754. doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-05182-0

Fig. 8. A model for mechanisms of ivermectin inhibiting prostate cancer progression.

Fig. 8

In PCa, ivermectin could target FOXA1 and Ku70/Ku80. The interaction of ivermectin and FOXA1 reduced the chromatin accessibility of AR signaling and E2F1, leading to cell cycle arrest and inhibiting cell proliferation. The interaction of ivermectin and Ku70/Ku80 block the recruitment of Ku70/Ku80 to DSB sites. Cooperating with the downregulation of AR regulated homologous recombination repair genes, BRCA1 and Rad51, ivermectin increased intracellular DNA damage level and triggered synthetic lethality.