A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to developing more efficient cancer detection methods and …

Multiplex assessment of protein variant abundance by massively parallel sequencing

KA Matreyek, LM Starita, JJ Stephany, B Martin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Determining the pathogenicity of genetic variants is a critical challenge, and functional
assessment is often the only option. Experimentally characterizing millions of possible …

Structural mechanisms of PTEN regulation

GR Masson, RL Williams - Cold Spring …, 2020 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homolog on chromosome 10 (PTEN) is a
tightly regulated enzyme responsible for dephosphorylating the progrowth lipid messenger …

Systematic functional interrogation of rare cancer variants identifies oncogenic alleles

E Kim, N Ilic, Y Shrestha, L Zou, A Kamburov, C Zhu… - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
Cancer genome characterization efforts now provide an initial view of the somatic alterations
in primary tumors. However, most point mutations occur at low frequency, and the function of …

Characterization of PTEN mutations in brain cancer reveals that pten mono-ubiquitination promotes protein stability and nuclear localization

JRM Yang, P Schiapparelli, HN Nguyen, A Igarashi… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
PTEN is a PIP3 phosphatase that antagonizes oncogenic PI3-kinase signalling. Due to its
critical role in suppressing the potent signalling pathway, it is one of the most mutated …

[HTML][HTML] Inherited PTEN mutations and the prediction of phenotype

NR Leslie, M Longy - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
PTEN has been heavily studied due to its role as a tumour suppressor and as a core
inhibitory component of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling network. It is a …

The mechanism of full activation of tumor suppressor PTEN at the phosphoinositide-enriched membrane

H Jang, IN Smith, C Eng, R Nussinov - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor suppressor PTEN, the second most highly mutated protein in cancer,
dephosphorylates signaling lipid PIP 3 produced by PI3Ks. Excess PIP 3 promotes cell …

[HTML][HTML] The excitable signal transduction networks: movers and shapers of eukaryotic cell migration

DS Pal, X Li, T Banerjee, Y Miao… - … International journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In response to a variety of external cues, eukaryotic cells display varied migratory modes to
perform their physiological functions during development and in the adult. Aberrations in cell …

The PTEN protein: cellular localization and post-translational regulation

NR Leslie, N Kriplani, MA Hermida… - Biochemical Society …, 2016 - portlandpress.com
The phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) phosphatase
dephosphorylates PIP3, the lipid product of the class I PI 3-kinases, and suppresses the …

Integrating thousands of PTEN variant activity and abundance measurements reveals variant subgroups and new dominant negatives in cancers

KA Matreyek, JJ Stephany, E Ahler, DM Fowler - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background PTEN is a multi-functional tumor suppressor protein regulating cell growth,
immune signaling, neuronal function, and genome stability. Experimental characterization …