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Fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) analysis using an ERG break-apart probe in LNCaP prostate cancer cells with three copies of chromosome 21. The intact ERG loci at 21q22.3 is shown by three pairs of adjacent red and green FISH signals, corresponding to the 5′ and 3′ ends of the ERG gene, per blue cell nucleus. ERG rearrangement, as indicated by separate red and green FISH signals, resulting from intragenic breakage and translocation of part of the ERG gene in the cell nucleus at the bottom of the picture, was induced by treating the cells with doxorubicin and dihydrotestosterone. Inactivation of chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 1 (CHD1) by genomic deletion of its gene locus at chromosome 5q21 attenuates androgen receptor (AR) signaling and impairs formation of AR-dependent ERG rearrangements in prostate cancer. For details, see article by Burkhardt and colleagues on page 2795.