PTEN tumor-suppressor: the dam of stemness in cancer

F Luongo, F Colonna, F Calapà, S Vitale, ME Fiori… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
PTEN is one of the most frequently inactivated tumor suppressor genes in cancer. Loss or
variation in PTEN gene/protein levels is commonly observed in a broad spectrum of human …

Clinical development of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors for cancer treatment

I Brana, LL Siu - BMC medicine, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is commonly deregulated in
cancer. In recent years, the results of the first phase I clinical trials with PI3K inhibitors have …

PIK3CA Mutations in Patients with Advanced Cancers Treated with PI3K/AKT/mTOR Axis Inhibitors

F Janku, AM Tsimberidou, I Garrido-Laguna… - Molecular cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Preclinical data suggest that PIK3CA mutations predict response to PI3K/AKT/mTOR
inhibitors. Concomitant KRAS or BRAF mutations may mediate resistance. Therefore, tumors …

Signaling networks associated with AKT activation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): new insights on the role of phosphatydil-inositol-3 kinase

M Scrima, C De Marco, F Fabiani, R Franco, G Pirozzi… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Aberrant activation of PI3K/AKT signalling represents one of the most common molecular
alterations in lung cancer, though the relative contribution of the single components of the …

The association of PI3 kinase signaling and chemoresistance in advanced ovarian cancer

CP Carden, A Stewart, P Thavasu, E Kipps… - Molecular cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Evidence that the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is deregulated in ovarian
cancer is largely based on the analysis of surgical specimens sampled at diagnosis and …

[HTML][HTML] HDAC5, a potential therapeutic target and prognostic biomarker, promotes proliferation, invasion and migration in human breast cancer

A Li, Z Liu, M Li, S Zhou, Y Xu, Y Xiao, W Yang - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Histone deacetylase 5 (HDAC5) is an important protein in neural and cardiac
diseases and a potential drug target. However, little is known regarding the specific role of …

OTUB1 promotes metastasis and serves as a marker of poor prognosis in colorectal cancer

Y Zhou, J Wu, X Fu, W Du, L Zhou, X Meng, H Yu, J Lin… - Molecular cancer, 2014 - Springer
Background OTUB1 (OTU deubiquitinase, ubiquitin aldehyde binding 1) is a
deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) that belongs to the OTU (ovarian tumor) superfamily. The …

High expression of p300 in human breast cancer correlates with tumor recurrence and predicts adverse prognosis

X Xiao, M Cai, J Chen, X Guan, H Kung, Y Zeng… - Chinese Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Objective Transcriptional coactivator p300 has been shown to play a variety of roles in the
transcription process and mutation of p300 has been found in certain types of human …

Decreased expression of Beclin 1 correlates closely with Bcl-xL expression and poor prognosis of ovarian carcinoma

HX Lin, HJ Qiu, F Zeng, HL Rao, GF Yang, HF Kung… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background It has been suggested that autophagy-related Beclin 1 plays a critical role in the
regulation of tumor development and/or progression, but its prognostic significance and …

PTEN inhibits BMI1 function independently of its phosphatase activity

C Fan, L He, A Kapoor, AP Rybak, J De Melo, JC Cutz… - Molecular cancer, 2009 - Springer
Background PTEN is the second most mutated tumor suppressor gene other than p53. It
suppresses tumorigenesis by dephosphorylating phosphatidylinositol (3, 4, 5)-triphosphate …