title: Akt2: a role in breast cancer metastasis.
abstract: Metastasis in breast cancer significantly increases morbidity and mortality. The 5-year survival rate reduces from 90% for localised disease to about 20% once metastasis has taken place. The phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt signalling pathway has an important role in cell motility, invasion and metastasis. However, the precise contribution of the Akt kinase family members, Akt1, Akt2 and Akt3, in mediating these processes is unclear. The possibility that they have distinct functions in tumour progression is particularly interesting.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK.
authors.forename: Noan-Minh
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Chau
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ashcroft
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002465:Cell Movement; D005260:Female; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; C494918:AKT1 protein, human; C494921:AKT2 protein, human; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt