Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jun 15;107(24):11002-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1005642107. Epub 2010 Jun 1.
Recent work has shown that ablation of p110beta, but not p110alpha, markedly impairs tumorigenesis driven by loss of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) in the mouse prostate. Other laboratories have reported complementary data in human prostate tumor lines, suggesting that p110beta activation is necessary for tumorigenesis driven by PTEN loss. Given the multiple functions of PTEN, we wondered if p110beta activation also is sufficient for tumorigenesis. Here, we report that transgenic expression of a constitutively activated p110beta allele in the prostate drives prostate intraepithelial neoplasia formation. The resulting lesions are similar to, but are clearly distinct from, the ones arising from PTEN loss or Akt activation. Array analyses of transcription in multiple murine prostate tumor models featuring PI3K/AKT pathway activation allowed construction of a pathway signature that may be useful in predicting the prognosis of human prostate tumors.
最近的研究表明,在小鼠前列腺中,p110beta 的消融而非 p110alpha 的消融显著损害了由磷酸酶和张力蛋白同源物 (PTEN)缺失驱动的肿瘤发生。其他实验室在人类前列腺肿瘤系中报告了互补数据,表明 p110beta 的激活对于由 PTEN 缺失驱动的肿瘤发生是必要的。鉴于 PTEN 的多种功能,我们想知道 p110beta 的激活是否也足以导致肿瘤发生。在这里,我们报告说,在前列腺中过表达组成性激活的 p110beta 等位基因会驱动前列腺上皮内瘤形成。由此产生的病变与由 PTEN 缺失或 Akt 激活引起的病变相似,但又明显不同。对多种具有 PI3K/AKT 通路激活特征的小鼠前列腺肿瘤模型中的转录进行的阵列分析允许构建一个通路特征,该特征可能有助于预测人类前列腺肿瘤的预后。