Pregnenolone (P5) promotes prostate cancer cell growth, and de novo synthesis of intratumoural P5 is a potential cause of development of castration-resistance. Immune cells can also synthesize P5 de novo. Despite its biological importance, little is known about P5's mode of actions, which appears to be context-dependent and pleiotropic. A comprehensive proteome-wide spectrum of P5-binding proteins that are involved in its trafficking and functionality remains unknown. Here, we describe an approach that integrates chemical biology for probe synthesis with chemoproteomics to map P5protein interactions in live prostate cancer cells and murine CD8 + T cells. We subsequently identified P5-binding proteins potentially involved in P5-trafficking, and in P5's non-genomic action that may drive the promotion of castrate-resistance prostate cancer and regulate CD8 + T cell function. We envisage that this methodology could be employed for other steroids to map their interactomes directly in a broad range of living cells, tissues and organisms.glioma it restricts tumour growth 11 . The mode-of-action of P5 in tumours is incompletely understood. In the nervous system, P5 is known to regulate synapse formation, outgrowth of neurites and enhances myelinization 12 , improves cognitive and memory function 13 .During immune response against helminth parasite infection T helper cells synthesize P5 to restore immune homeostasis 4 . Up to now, we do not have a proteome-wide description of the P5-interacting molecules in any living cells.Traditionally, steroid hormones have been considered to act by regulating transcription 14 . However, rapid activity of steroid hormones can be mediated by nongenomic pathways 15 . Non-genomic pathways appear to mediate P5 activity 16 in a cell type-specific and context-dependent manner, indicating a need for proteome-wide studies to map the full spectrum of P5 functions.Here, we have developed a chemical biology method to generate clickable P5analogues for use in living cells. Exploiting these P5-probes in combination with quantitative mass-spectrometry, we profiled global P5-protein interactions directly in two distinct cell types: a steroid-sensitive cell line derived from a metastatic prostate cancer patient (i.e. LNCaP) and de novo P5-producing mouse CD8 + T cells.Altogether, we identified 62 high-confidence P5 binding and about 387 potential P5binding proteins localized in the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.These proteins include receptors, channels, transporters, cytoskeletal proteins such as vimentin and enzymes, of which many represent novel interactions. Overall, we identified P5-binding proteins potentially involved in inter-and intra-cellular P5trafficking and P5's non-genomic action that drives prostate cancer promotion of castration-resistance, and mediates CD8 + T cell regulation.