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3-Phosphoinositide–Dependent Kinase 1 Potentiates Upstream Lesions on the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway in Breast Carcinoma
- Source :
- Cancer Research. 69:6299-6306
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2009.
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Abstract
- Lesions of ERBB2, PTEN, and PIK3CA activate the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway during cancer development by increasing levels of phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate (PIP3). 3-Phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) is the first node of the PI3K signal output and is required for activation of AKT. PIP3 recruits PDK1 and AKT to the cell membrane through interactions with their pleckstrin homology domains, allowing PDK1 to activate AKT by phosphorylating it at residue threonine-308. We show that total PDK1 protein and mRNA were overexpressed in a majority of human breast cancers and that 21% of tumors had five or more copies of the gene encoding PDK1, PDPK1. We found that increased PDPK1 copy number was associated with upstream pathway lesions (ERBB2 amplification, PTEN loss, or PIK3CA mutation), as well as patient survival. Examination of an independent set of breast cancers and tumor cell lines derived from multiple forms of human cancers also found increased PDK1 protein levels associated with such upstream pathway lesions. In human mammary cells, PDK1 enhanced the ability of upstream lesions to signal to AKT, stimulate cell growth and migration, and rendered cells more resistant to PDK1 and PI3K inhibition. After orthotopic transplantation, PDK1 overexpression was not oncogenic but dramatically enhanced the ability of ERBB2 to form tumors. Our studies argue that PDK1 overexpression and increased PDPK1 copy number are common occurrences in cancer that potentiate the oncogenic effect of upstream lesions on the PI3K pathway. Therefore, we conclude that alteration of PDK1 is a critical component of oncogenic PI3K signaling in breast cancer. [Cancer Res 2009;69(15):6299–306]
- Subjects :
- Cellular signal transduction
Cancer Research
animal structures
Receptor, ErbB-2
Carcinogenesis
Gene Dosage
Breast Neoplasms
Cell Growth Processes
Mice, SCID
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Article
3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Protein Kinases
Mice
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
Protein kinases
Pathology
medicine
Animals
Humans
PTEN
Protein kinase B
PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
Mice, Inbred BALB C
biology
Kinase
Cancer
medicine.disease
Oncogene Protein v-akt
Pleckstrin homology domain
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
Oncology
Breast--Cancer
Cancer research
biology.protein
Female
Signal transduction
Signal Transduction
Phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15387445 and 00085472
- Volume :
- 69
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cancer Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fe91b98c3abfc7d6d0f4280ad0203348