title: Akt-regulated pathways in prostate cancer.
abstract: Prostate cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality. Genetic clues to the molecular pathways driving the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer have been limited. Genetic inactivation of PTEN through either gene deletion or point mutation is reasonably common in metastatic prostate cancer and the resulting activation of phosphoinostide 3-kinase, AKT and mTOR provides a major therapeutic opportunity in this disease as mTOR inhibitors, HSP90 inhibitors and PI3K inhibitors begin to enter clinical development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Pradip K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Majumder
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Sellers
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
chemical_list: D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D011494:Protein Kinases; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases; C546842:MTOR protein, human; C494929:PTEN protein, human