PI3K signaling in cancer: beyond AKT

EC Lien, CC Dibble, A Toker - Current opinion in cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway is one of the most frequently
altered pathways in human cancer and has a critical role in driving tumor initiation and …

Ras superfamily GEFs and GAPs: validated and tractable targets for cancer therapy?

D Vigil, J Cherfils, KL Rossman, CJ Der - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
There is now considerable and increasing evidence for a causal role for aberrant activity of
the Ras superfamily of small GTPases in human cancers. These GTPases function as GDP …

Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors: regulators of Rho GTPase activity in development and disease

DR Cook, KL Rossman, CJ Der - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
The aberrant activity of Ras homologous (Rho) family small GTPases (20 human members)
has been implicated in cancer and other human diseases. However, in contrast to the direct …

Deregulation of Rho GTPases in cancer

AP Porter, A Papaioannou, A Malliri - Small GTPases, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In vitro and in vivo studies and evidence from human tumors have long implicated Rho
GTPase signaling in the formation and dissemination of a range of cancers. Recently next …

RAC1: an emerging therapeutic option for targeting cancer angiogenesis and metastasis

HK Bid, RD Roberts, PK Manchanda… - Molecular cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Angiogenesis and metastasis are well recognized as processes fundamental to the
development of malignancy. Both processes involve the coordination of multiple cellular and …

DNA-PKcs-mediated transcriptional regulation drives prostate cancer progression and metastasis

JF Goodwin, V Kothari, JM Drake, S Zhao, E Dylgjeri… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Emerging evidence demonstrates that the DNA repair kinase DNA-PKcs exerts divergent
roles in transcriptional regulation of unsolved consequence. Here, in vitro and in vivo …

The hippo pathway effector YAP regulates motility, invasion, and castration-resistant growth of prostate cancer cells

L Zhang, S Yang, X Chen, S Stauffer, F Yu… - … and cellular biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Yes-associated protein (YAP) is an effector of the Hippo tumor suppressor pathway. The
functional significance of YAP in prostate cancer has remained elusive. In this study, we first …

Identification of the Rac-GEF P-Rex1 as an essential mediator of ErbB signaling in breast cancer

MS Sosa, C Lopez-Haber, C Yang, HB Wang… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Summary While the small GTPase Rac1 and its effectors are well-established mediators of
mitogenic and motile signaling by tyrosine kinase receptors and have been implicated in …

Rac signaling in breast cancer: a tale of GEFs and GAPs

E Wertheimer, A Gutierrez-Uzquiza, C Rosemblit… - Cellular signalling, 2012 - Elsevier
Rac GTPases, small G-proteins widely implicated in tumorigenesis and metastasis,
transduce signals from tyrosine-kinase, G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and integrins …

Activation of the PI3K pathway in cancer through inhibition of PTEN by exchange factor P-REX2a

B Fine, C Hodakoski, S Koujak, T Su, LH Saal… - Science, 2009 - science.org
PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog on chromosome 10) is a tumor suppressor whose
cellular regulation remains incompletely understood. We identified phosphatidylinositol 3, 4 …