title: Cancer therapy: staying current with AMPK.
abstract: Does the LKB1-AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) pathway act to suppress tumorigenesis or to rescue cancer cells from metabolic collapse? New work from the Alessi laboratory in this issue of the Biochemical Journal shows conclusively that AMPK activators delay the growth of tumours that occur spontaneously in PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10) heterozygous mice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. dfruman@uci.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fruman
authors.forename: Aimee L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Edinger
mesh_terms: D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases; D000263:Adenylate Kinase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006801:Humans; D000076222:Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1; D051379:Mice; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology / Q000628:therapy; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011506:Proteins; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases; D000263:Adenylate Kinase; D000076222:Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D011494:Protein Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D011506:Proteins; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases; D014157:Transcription Factors; C546842:MTOR protein, human; C546843:mTOR protein, mouse; C491654:Stk11 protein, mouse