MYCN and prostate carcinoma: Although N-Myc can induce a molecular neuroendocrine phenotype for both LNCaP and C4–2 cells, N-Myc overexpression dramatically increased the cell proliferation for LNCaP cells whereas had a marginal stimulatory effect on C4–2 cell proliferation as shown by growth curve and colony formation capacity (Fig. 1 b &c), suggesting that N-Myc overexpression has a more profound effect on cell proliferation of androgen-responsive prostate cancer cells than that of CRPC cells.