Rapamycin: one drug, many effects

J Li, SG Kim, J Blenis - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway is a master regulator of cell
growth and metabolism. Deregulation of the mTOR pathway has been implicated in a …

The Ras-ERK and PI3K-mTOR pathways: cross-talk and compensation

MC Mendoza, EE Er, J Blenis - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2011 - cell.com
The Ras-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Ras-ERK) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-
mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K-mTOR) signaling pathways are the chief mechanisms …

PI3K signalling: the path to discovery and understanding

B Vanhaesebroeck, L Stephens… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2012 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, our understanding of phospoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) has
progressed from the identification of an enzymatic activity associated with growth factors …

[HTML][HTML] AKT and ERK dual inhibitors: the way forward?

Z Cao, Q Liao, M Su, K Huang, J Jin, D Cao - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway regulates cell growth,
proliferation, survival, mobility and invasion. Mitogen-activated protein kinase …

Role of platelet-derived growth factors in physiology and medicine

J Andrae, R Gallini, C Betsholtz - Genes & development, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFRs) have served as
prototypes for growth factor and receptor tyrosine kinase function for more than 25 years …

Upstream and downstream of mTOR

N Hay, N Sonenberg - Genes & development, 2004 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The evolutionarily conserved checkpoint protein kinase, TOR (target of rapamycin), has
emerged as a major effector of cell growth and proliferation via the regulation of protein …

New insights into tumor suppression: PTEN suppresses tumor formation by restraining the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/AKT pathway

LC Cantley, BG Neel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The most recently discovered PTEN tumor suppressor gene has been found to be defective
in a large number of human cancers. In addition, germ-line mutations in PTEN result in the …

Identification of the tuberous sclerosis complex-2 tumor suppressor gene product tuberin as a target of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/akt pathway

BD Manning, AR Tee, MN Logsdon, J Blenis… - Molecular cell, 2002 - cell.com
The S/T-protein kinases activated by phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) regulate a myriad of
cellular processes. Here, we show that an approach using a combination of biochemistry …

Regulation of neuronal survival by the serine-threonine protein kinase Akt

H Dudek, SR Datta, TF Franke, MJ Birnbaum, R Yao… - Science, 1997 - science.org
A signaling pathway was delineated by which insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) promotes
the survival of cerebellar neurons. IGF-1 activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-K) …

Protein kinase B (c-Akt) in phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase signal transduction

BMT Burgering, PJ Coffer - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
A serine/threonine kinase, named protein kinase B (PKB) 1 for its sequence homology to
both protein kinase A and C, has previously been isolated. PKB, which is identical to the …