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An inhibitor of mTOR reduces neoplasia and normalizes p70/S6 kinase activity in Pten+/- mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Aug 2001
Podsypanina K, Lee R T, Politis C, Hennessy I, Crane A, Puc J, Neshat M, Wang H, Yang L, Gibbons J, Frost P, Dreisbach V, Blenis J, Gaciong Z, Fisher P, Sawyers C, Hedrick-Ellenson L, Parsons R
Abstract excerpt
PTEN phosphatase acts as a tumor suppressor by negatively regulating the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway. It is unclear which downstream components of this pathway are necessary for oncogenic transformation. In this report we show that transformed cells of PTEN(+/-) mice have elevated levels of phosphorylated Akt and activated p70/S6 kinase associated with an increase in proliferation....
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