4E-BP1 is a key effector of the oncogenic activation of the AKT and ERK signaling pathways that integrates their function in tumors. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • PIK3CA and PTEN alterations are common in human cancer, but only a fraction of such tumors are dependent upon AKT signaling. AKT independence is associated with redundant activation of cap-dependent translation mediated by convergent regulation of the translational repressor 4E-BP1 by the AKT and ERK pathways. This provides mechanistic bases for the limited activity of AKT and MEK inhibitors in tumors with comutation of both pathways and the profound synergy observed with combined inhibition. Whereas such tumors are sensitive to a dominant active 4E-BP1 mutant, knockdown of 4E-BP1 expression reduces their dependence on AKT/ERK signaling for translation or survival. Thus, 4E-BP1 plays a prominent role in mediating the effects of these pathways in tumors in which they are activated by mutation.

publication date

  • July 13, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Colonic Neoplasms
  • Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases
  • Phosphoproteins
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
  • Signal Transduction

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3286650

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77954296394

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.05.023

PubMed ID

  • 20609351

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 1