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CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 1331-1340Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-0540
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- National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH
- NIH [R01 CA140323, U01 CA113916, R01-1CA112021-01]
- NCI SPORE in breast cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
- Avon Foundation
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Purpose: The goal of this study was to comprehensively define the incidence of mutations in all exons of PIK3CA in both endometrioid endometrial cancer (EEC) and nonendometrioid endometrial cancer (NEEC). Experimental Design: We resequenced all coding exons of PIK3CA and PTEN, and exons 1 and 2 of KRAS, from 108 primary endometrial tumors. Somatic mutations were confirmed by sequencing matched normal DNAs. The biochemical properties of a subset of novel PIK3CA mutations were determined by exogenously expressing wild type and mutant constructs in U2OS cells and measuring levels of AKT(Ser473) phosphorylation. Results: Somatic PIK3CA mutations were detected in 52.4% of 42 EECs and 33.3% of 66 NEECs. Half (29 of 58) of all nonsynonymous PIK3CA mutations were in exons 1-7 and half were in exons 9 and 20. The exons 1-7 mutations localized to the ABD, ABD-RBD linker and C2 domains of p110 alpha. Within these regions, Arg88, Arg93, Gly106, Lys111, Glu365, and Glu453, were recurrently mutated; Arg88, Arg93, and Lys111 formed mutation hotspots. The p110 alpha-R93W, -G106R, -G106V, -K111E, -delP449-L455, and -E453K mutants led to increased levels of phospho-AKT(Ser473) compared to wild-type p110 alpha. Overall, 62% of exons 1-7 PIK3CA mutants and 64% of exons 9-20 PIK3CA mutants were activating; 72% of exon 1-7 mutations have not previously been reported in endometrial cancer. Conclusions: Our study identified a new subgroup of endometrial cancer patients with activating mutations in the amino-terminal domains of p110 alpha; these patients might be appropriate for consideration in clinical trials of targeted therapies directed against the PI3K pathway. Clin Cancer Res; 17(6); 1331-40. (C)2011 AACR.
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