Attacking the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway for targeted therapeutic treatment in human cancer

L Yu, J Wei, P Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of human death globally. PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling is
one of the most frequently dysregulated signaling pathways observed in cancer patients that …

AKT/PKB signaling: navigating the network

BD Manning, A Toker - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The Ser and Thr kinase AKT, also known as protein kinase B (PKB), was discovered 25
years ago and has been the focus of tens of thousands of studies in diverse fields of biology …

Lymphatic malformations: genetics, mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

T Mäkinen, LM Boon, M Vikkula, K Alitalo - Circulation research, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Lymphatic vessels maintain tissue fluid homeostasis by returning to blood circulation
interstitial fluid that has extravasated from the blood capillaries. They provide a trafficking …

Genetic studies in intellectual disability and related disorders

LELM Vissers, C Gilissen, JA Veltman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic factors play a major part in intellectual disability (ID), but genetic studies have been
complicated for a long time by the extreme clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Recently …

Molecular findings among patients referred for clinical whole-exome sequencing

Y Yang, DM Muzny, F Xia, Z Niu, R Person, Y Ding… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical whole-exome sequencing is increasingly used for diagnostic evaluation
of patients with suspected genetic disorders. Objective To perform clinical whole-exome …

The genetic basis of Mendelian phenotypes: discoveries, challenges, and opportunities

JX Chong, KJ Buckingham, SN Jhangiani… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Discovering the genetic basis of a Mendelian phenotype establishes a causal link between
genotype and phenotype, making possible carrier and population screening and direct …

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, growth disorders, and cancer

MD Goncalves, BD Hopkins… - New England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
The Central Role of PI3K in Cell Signaling Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) is involved
in multiple cell processes, including insulin signaling, cell growth, immunity, and brain …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular neurobiology of mTOR

K Switon, K Kotulska, A Janusz-Kaminska… - Neuroscience, 2017 - Elsevier
Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a serine-threonine kinase that
controls several important aspects of mammalian cell function. mTOR activity is modulated …

Somatic mutations activating the mTOR pathway in dorsal telencephalic progenitors cause a continuum of cortical dysplasias

AM D'Gama, MB Woodworth, AA Hossain, S Bizzotto… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and hemimegalencephaly (HME) are epileptogenic
neurodevelopmental malformations caused by mutations in mTOR pathway genes. Deep …

New insights into the generation and role of de novo mutations in health and disease

R Acuna-Hidalgo, JA Veltman, A Hoischen - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Aside from inheriting half of the genome of each of our parents, we are born with a small
number of novel mutations that occurred during gametogenesis and postzygotically. Recent …