Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages 1781-1791Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.9.9.11483
Keywords
Raf; Akt; signal transduction inhibitors; chemotherapeutic drugs; drug resistance
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- US Public Health Service
- National Institutes of Health
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) [R01CA098195]
- Brody Brothers Endowment Fund [MT7826]
- Progetti Strategici Unibo
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The effects of the Raf/MEK/ERK and PI3K/PTEN/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways on proliferation, drug resistance, prevention of apoptosis and sensitivity to signal transduction inhibitors were examined in FL/Delta Akt-1:ER*(Myr(+)) + Delta Raf-1:AR cells which are conditionally-transformed to grow in response to Raf and Akt activation. Drug resistant cells were isolated from FL/Delta Akt-1:ER*(Myr(+)) + Delta Raf-1:AR cells in the presence of doxorubicin. Activation of Raf-1, in the drug resistant FL/Delta Akt-1: ER*(Myr(+)) + Delta Raf-1:AR cells, increased the IC50 for doxorubicin 80-fold, whereas activation of Akt-1, by itself, had no effect on the doxorubicin IC50. However, Akt-1 activation enhanced cell proliferation and clonogenicity in the presence of chemotherapeutic drugs. thus the Raf/MEK/ERK pathway had profound effects on the sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, and Akt-1 activation was required for the long term growth of these cells as well as resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. the effects of doxorubicin on the induction of apoptosis in the drug resistant cells were enhanced by addition of either mTOR and MEK inhibitors. these results indicate that targeting the Raf/MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathways may be an effective approach for therapeutic intervention in drug resistant cancers that have mutations activating these cascades.
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