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LABORATORY INVESTIGATION
卷 84, 期 8, 页码 941-951出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700123
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Akt; glioma; NFM kappa B; Stat3
Loss of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) and amplification of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene contribute to the progression of gliomas. As downstream targets of the PTEN and EGFR signaling pathways, Akt, NFkappaB, and signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (Stat3) have been shown to play important roles in the control of cell proliferation, apoptosis, and oncogenesis. We examined the activation status of Akt, NFkappaB, and Stat3 in 259 diffuse gliomas using tissue microarrays and immunohistochemistry, and evaluated their association with glioma grade. We observed significant positive correlations between the activation status of Akt and NFkappaB and glioma grade. In contrast, only focal immunoreactivity for phospho-Stat3 was observed in <9% of high-grade gliomas. In addition, we observed a significant correlation between the activation of Akt and NF kappa B. Functional correlation between Akt activation and the activation of NF kappa B was confirmed in U251MG GBM cells in which inhibition of Akt activation either by stable expression of PTEN or by the P13-kinase inhibitors, wortmannin and LY294002, led to a concomitant decrease in NF kappa B-binding activity. Thus, our results demonstrate that constitutive activation of Akt and NF kappa B, but not Stat3, contributes significantly to the progression of diffuse gliomas, and activation of Akt may lead to NF kappa B activation in high-grade gliomas.
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