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We conclude that EP2 and EP4 receptors play different roles in the regulation of COX-2 expression in human amnion fibroblasts. EP2 is the dominant PGE2 receptor mediating the induction of COX-2 at parturition, which can be attenuated by simultaneous activation of PI3K coupled to the EP4 receptor.-Lu, J.-W., Wang, W.-S., Zhou, Q., Gan, X.-W., Myatt, L., Sun, K. Activation of prostaglandin EP4 receptor attenuates the induction of cyclooxygenase-2 expression by EP2 receptor activation in human amnion fibroblasts: implications for parturition.
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Journal: The PAX6-ZEB2 axis promotes metastasis and cisplatin resistance in non-small cell lung cancer through PI3K/AKT signaling. (Pubmed Central) - May 21, 2020 Moreover, p-PI3K and p-AKT were significantly enhanced by PAX6, which was reversed by the addition of the PI3K-AKT inhibitor, LY294002. These data suggest that PAX6 can mediate E-cadherin downregulation through the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway by directly binding the promoter region of ZEB2, thereby mediating cell migration, stem cell transformation, and cisplatin resistance; and ultimately, affecting survival in NSCLC patients.
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These data suggest that PAX6 can mediate E-cadherin downregulation through the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway by directly binding the promoter region of ZEB2, thereby mediating cell migration, stem cell transformation, and cisplatin resistance; and ultimately, affecting survival in NSCLC patients. No abstract available
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In this scenario, predictive biomarkers can assist physicians in optimizing treatment tailoring. Furthermore, treatment-emergent mutations leading to drug resistance are discovered in the majority of patients treated with BTK inhibitors and BCL2 inhibitors, which could be switched to an alternative option.
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Journal: Sodium azulene sulfonate reverses multidrug resistance in K562/A02 cells. (Pubmed Central) - May 19, 2020 Sodium azulene sulfonate (SAS) was used to reverse the multidrug resistance of human leukemia adriamycin-resistant strain K562/A02, and the underlying mechanism was investigated...This contributed to the reversal of drug resistance.SAS effectively reverses multidrug resistance in vitro by inhibiting the function of p-gp in K562/A02 cells, through a mechanism involving downregulation of the P13K/Akt signaling pathway. Therefore, SAS may be a potential candidate drug for reversal of MDR.
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Preclinical, Journal: Qingxin Kaiqiao Recipe Improves Cognitive Performance, Inhibits Apoptosis, and Reduces Pathological Deposits in APP/PS1 Double Transgenic Mice via the PI3K/Akt Pathway. (Pubmed Central) - May 19, 2020 APP/PS1 double transgenic mice were randomly divided into a model, donepezil-treated, or QKR-treated group (L-QKR: 4.75 mg/kg/d, M-QKR: 9.5 mg/kg/d, and H-QKR: 19 mg/kg/d, respectively)...In addition, the number of TUNEL-positive cells decreased after treatment using QKR. The current study proved that QKR, especially at the high dose tested, exerted a protective effect on improving learning and memory, inhibiting apoptosis, and reducing the process of pathological degeneration in the hippocampus of AD mice.
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Clinical, Journal: Microtia patients: Auricular chondrocyte ECM is promoted by CGF through IGF-1 activation of the IGF-1R/PI3K/AKT pathway. (Pubmed Central) - May 18, 2020 Taken together, the key observations of this study provide evidence suggesting that high expressions of PDK1 are found in RCC, while highlighting that silencing PDK1 could inhibit RCC cell proliferation, migration, invasion and EMT by repressing the PI3K-PDK1-Akt pathway. CGF-released IGF-1 stimulates the synthesis of the auricular chondrocyte ECM via the IGF-1R/PI3K/AKT signaling pathway.
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Longitudinal proteomic assessment of patient with metastatic apocrine adenocarcinoma reveals evolutionary selection for androgen-receptor-dependence and therapeutic response (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_89; The patient underwent craniotomy, began paclitaxel therapy, and then RETB declined to 35,623 mm3...The patient then received the PI3K inhibitor taselisib; however, after an initial decrease, RETB rose to 31,208 mm3.At this point, the patient began bicalutamide therapy...After 9 months of bicalutamide, enzalutamide and leuprolide were administered for 7 months (final RETB = 1,555 mm3)...We identified the phenotypic evolution of androgen-driven growth of apocrine adenocarcinoma after cytotoxic and PI3K-mTOR inhibitor therapy. Protein-based diagnostics revealed an effective treatment strategy in late metastatic disease that was not indicated by NGS testing.
- |||||||||| Landscape of PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway gene alterations in early breast cancer: Implications for targeted therapeutics (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_882;
Our study identified mutational patterns in the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway among the Chinese patients with various molecular subtypes of early breast cancer. Patients with multiple PIK3CA mutations have a significantly worse prognosis than patients with a single mutation and those without mutations, suggesting that inhibitors designed to effectively target PIK3CA could contribute in improving the prognosis of these patients.
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Discovery of ZN-c5, a novel potent and oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_845; The PK profile of ZN-c5 in breast cancer patients indicates that Zn-c5 has greater than 5-fold exposure than fulvestrant. We believe that the high exposure of ZN-c5 coupled with its potency and degradative properties could therapeutic benefit estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients.
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Novel approach for automated sequential immunoassay for quantitation and characterization of PI3K-Akt pathway proteins (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_766; Akt is a target for specific inhibition and recently, a number of small molecules have been developed to improve the pharmacologic properties of known inhibitors like wortmannin and LY294002...This approach enables normalization of phosphorylation levels and/or target abundance in cell line or tissue samples, correcting for change in protein content due to treatment, loading, and/or other systematic errors. These results present the utility of the Multiple Detection Approach to quickly characterize and quantify proteins involved in signaling pathways targeted during development of cancer therapies.
- |||||||||| Targeting of AKT pathway inhibit high-risk neuroblastoma growth (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_500;
Overall, these data highlight that: a) AKT signaling pathway is implicated in NB growth, b) PI3K and PDK1 upstream of the AKT are important regulators of NB proliferation, and c) direct targeting of these regulators is a novel therapeutic approach to high-risk NB. We will further explore these strategies and combine them with current therapies to develop effective therapeutic approaches for NB patients.
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Assays of conventional chemotherapeutics and targeted drugs for ovarian cancer using patient derived models (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_4082; Several PI3K inhibitors were assayed on PDTCs of this PDX line harboring the PIK3R1W624R. Buparlisib (a Pan Class I PI3Ki) showed the ability to block proliferation of the PDTCs and the growth of the relevant PDXs in vivo.Altogether these data show that Patient Derived models are invaluable tools to unveil actionable pathways for the treatment of advanced/metastatic HGS-EOC.
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CA102N suppresses the growth of mouse colon cancer by inhibition of PI3K pathway and immune modulation (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_4033; Additionally, the protein expression of pAkt and pS6 in CA102N (200 mg/kg) treated tumor tissues were significantly down-regulated by more than 50% compared to that of control group, while CA102N (50 mg/kg) treatment only slightly altered the abundance of these proteins, suggesting antitumor activity of CA102N in different doses can potentially be mediated by differential mechanisms. Together, these findings suggest that the lower dose of CA102N exerts antitumor activity in mouse colon tumor model by immune modulation whereas the antitumor activity of the higher dose of CA102N might be mediated through inhibition of PI3kinase pathway on tumor tissues.
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Influence of PI3K/AKT pathway on imatinib mesylate treatment outcome in chronic myeloid leukemia patients (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3992; However, with respect to the clinical phase and imatinib response, none of the genes showed significant differences except for PTEN, which was significantly downregulated in advanced phase (p<0.042) and in cases with poor imatinib response. Overall, these results indicate a critical role for PI3K pathway in CML and its maintenance.
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Identifying the role of AXL in fusion kinase inhibitor resistant non-small cell lung cancer (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3897; In a RET inhibitor resistant model expression of both AXL and EGFR are elevated and the receptors interact, which can be disrupted upon EGF stimulation, to drive resistance. Collectively, we show that AXL upregulation is a common marker of TKI resistance among ALK, ROS1, and RET fusion kinase driven lung adenocarcinoma models, and provide rationale for AXL as a clinical target for combination therapy to overcome drug resistance.
- |||||||||| Elucidating the role of PI3K lipid effectors in BRAF mutant melanoma (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3771;
However, it has not been shown if constitutively active AKT alone is able to substitute for this effect. Further research will elucidate the role of AKT in the initiating stages of melanoma and provide a more thorough understanding of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in promoting BRAF mutant melanomagnesis.
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Combined inhibition of checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathways induces greater replication stress and DNA damage in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3549; We thus conducted a high throughput drug combination screening of a CHK1i, prexasertib (Prex) with 1,912 drugs in HGSOC cell lines (BRCA wild-type [BRCAwt: OVCAR5 and OVCAR8] and BRCA2 mutant [BRCA2m: PEO1])...We confirmed the combination of Prex and a dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor LY3023414 (LY302) yielded synergistic cytotoxicity (combination index<1) in a panel of HGSOC cell lines (OVCAR3, OVCAR5, OVCAR8, OV90 and PEO4 [all BRCA-proficient] and PEO1) by XTT and colony formation assays...Supporting this notion, Prex+LY302 augmented RS as evidenced by increased phospho-RPA+/γH2AX+ populations compared with Prex (increased 37% and 38%, respectively; P<0.05) or LY302 (increased 80% and 79%, respectively; P<0.001). Overall, our results suggest that dual inhibition of CHK1 and PI3K pathways results in greater RS, DNA damage and subsequent cell death in HGSOC cells independent of BRCA mutation status.
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Unexpectedly, resistant models exhibited diminished dependence on AKT (MK2206 IC50 increase from 200 nM to 4500 nM) and were sensitized to MEK/ERK inhibition (trametinib IC50 decrease from 740 nM to 13 nM and SCH772984 from 2900 nM to 250 nM)...Finally, using lentiviral CRISPR/Cas9, we knocked out NF1 in a HER2+ patient derived xenograft model and again found that this alteration promoted profound MEK dependence in vivo. Overall, these data suggest that MAPK-activating mutations constitute an important potential mode of acquired resistance to HER2-targeted therapies and demonstrate the potential utility of MEK/ERK targeted therapies for a subset of anti-HER2 therapy resistant HER2+ breast cancers.
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Kinome rewiring upon acquisition of resistance to PI3K inhibitors in ER+ breast cancer (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3129; Previous work showed that PARD3 is central for the formation of tight junctions. These data collectively suggest a dynamic role of kinase-substrate interactions involved in resistance to combined anti-estrogen/PI3Ki treatment, including filamentation actin formation and stabilization, as well as the deregulation of tight junction formation.
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