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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Activity of any class IA PI3K isoform can sustain cell proliferation and survival.

Lazaros C Foukas, Inma M Berenjeno, Alexander Gray, Asim Khwaja, Bart Vanhaesebroeck

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 165 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lazaros C FoukasCentre for Cell Signalling, Institute of Cancer, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom. l.foukas@ucl.ac.uk
Inma M Berenjeno
Alexander Gray
Asim Khwaja
Bart Vanhaesebroeck
Queen Mary University of London · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Dundee · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK C23338/A10200Department of HealthMedical Research Council G0801865Medical Research Council G9403619Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small molecule inhibitors of PI3K for oncology mainly target the class I PI3Ks, comprising the p110alpha, beta, gamma, and delta isoforms, of which only p110alpha is mutated in cancer. To assess the roles of class I PI3K isoforms in cell proliferation and survival, we generated immortalized mouse leukocyte and fibroblast models in which class I PI3Ks were inactivated by genetic and pharmacological approaches. In IL3-dependent hemopoietic progenitor cells (which express all four class I PI3K isoforms), genetic inactivation of either p110alpha or p110delta did not affect cell proliferation or survival or sensitize to p110beta or p110gamma inactivation. Upon compound inactivation of p110alpha and p110delta, which removed >90% of p85-associated PI3K activity, remarkably, cells continued to proliferate effectively, with p110beta assuming an essential role in signaling and cell survival. Furthermore, under these conditions of diminished class I PI3K activity, input from the ERK pathway became important for cell survival. Similar observations were made in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (which mainly express p110alpha and p110beta) in which p110alpha or p110beta could sustain cell proliferation as a single isoform. Taken together, these data demonstrate that a small fraction of total class I PI3K activity is sufficient to sustain cell survival and proliferation. Persistent inhibition of selected PI3K isoforms can allow the remaining isoform(s) to couple to upstream signaling pathways in which they are not normally engaged. Such functional redundancy of class IA PI3K isoforms upon sustained PI3K inhibition has implications for the development and use of PI3K inhibitors in cancer.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicAnimalsApoptosisCell ProliferationClass I Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesEnzyme InhibitorsExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesFibroblastsLeukocytesMAP Kinase Signaling SystemMiceMutationNeoplasmsPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProtein Isoforms1-phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase p110 subunit, mouseClass I Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesEnzyme InhibitorsExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesPik3cd protein, mouseProtein Isoforms

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PMID20534549
PMCPMC2895061
OpenAlexW1971525986

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