Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway: effective combinations and clinical considerations

J LoPiccolo, GM Blumenthal, WB Bernstein… - Drug Resistance …, 2008 - Elsevier
The PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is a prototypic survival pathway that is constitutively activated
in many types of cancer. Mechanisms for pathway activation include loss of tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Development of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway inhibitors and their application in personalized therapy for non–small-cell lung cancer

V Papadimitrakopoulou - Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is a common disease with more than 1.6 million new cases diagnosed
worldwide in 2008. Treatments for patients with advanced disease are rarely curative, and …

Nelfinavir, A lead HIV protease inhibitor, is a broad-spectrum, anticancer agent that induces endoplasmic reticulum stress, autophagy, and apoptosis in vitro and in …

JJ Gills, J LoPiccolo, J Tsurutani, RH Shoemaker… - Clinical cancer …, 2007 - AACR
Purpose: The development of new cancer drugs is slow and costly. HIV protease inhibitors
are Food and Drug Administration approved for HIV patients. Because these drugs cause …

miR-205 targets PTEN and PHLPP2 to augment AKT signaling and drive malignant phenotypes in non–small cell lung cancer

J Cai, L Fang, Y Huang, R Li, J Yuan, Y Yang, X Zhu… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
AKT signaling is constitutively activated in various cancers, due in large part to loss-of-
function in the PTEN and PHLPP phosphatases that act as tumor suppressor genes …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-AKT-mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K-Akt-mTOR) signaling pathway in non-small cell lung cancer

PY Yip - Translational lung cancer research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. Systemic
chemotherapy has been the mainstay of treatment in advanced disease for many decades …

Akt phosphorylation on Thr308 but not on Ser473 correlates with Akt protein kinase activity in human non-small cell lung cancer

EE Vincent, DJE Elder, EC Thomas, L Phillips… - British journal of …, 2011 - nature.com
Background: The activity of the protein kinase Akt is frequently dysregulated in cancer and is
an important factor in the growth and survival of tumour cells. Akt activation involves the …

Activation of Akt predicts poor outcome in neuroblastoma

D Opel, C Poremba, T Simon, KM Debatin, S Fulda - Cancer research, 2007 - AACR
Whereas aberrant activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway, a
key survival cascade, has previously been linked to poor prognosis in several human …

Overexpression of phospho-eIF4E is associated with survival through AKT pathway in non–small cell lung cancer

A Yoshizawa, J Fukuoka, S Shimizu, K Shilo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2010 - AACR
Purpose: The eukaryotic translation initiation factor complex 4E (eIF4E) is downstream in the
mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. This study explored expression of eIF4E …

Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway: potential for lung cancer treatment

H Cheng, M Shcherba, G Pendurti, Y Liang… - Lung cancer …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
SUMMARY The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is commonly activated in non-small-cell lung
cancer. It plays important roles in promoting oncogenesis in lung cancer and mediating …

Targeting AKT/PKB to improve treatment outcomes for solid tumors

M Iida, PM Harari, DL Wheeler, M Toulany - … Research/Fundamental and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The serine/threonine kinase AKT, also known as protein kinase B (PKB), is the major
substrate to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and consists of three paralogs: AKT1 (PKBα) …