Down-regulation or inhibition of PRMT5 markedly reduced Akt phosphorylation at Thr308 and Ser473, whereas the expression of PTEN and mTOR phosphorylation was unchanged, indicating that PRMT5 was an important upstream regulator of Akt and induced lung cancer cell proliferation.
The deubiquitylase OTUD3 plays a suppressive role in breast tumorigenesis through stabilizing PTEN protein, but its role in lung cancer remains unclear.
Taken together, miR-10a targets PTEN to mediate the anti-tumor effect of icaritin in A549 cells, which provides a novel insight into the anti-tumor mechanism of icaritin and may provide a new strategy for lung cancer therapy.
These results suggested that SHCBP1 may be upregulated in lung cancer and it may serve a key role in the apoptosis of lung cancer cells; this effect was associated with the expression of PTEN.
The E3 ubiquitin ligase neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated 4-1 (NEDD4-1) negatively regulates phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) protein levels through polyubiquitination and proteolysis, but its significance in lung cancer is still unclear.
Consistent with these findings, we observed increased PTEN phosphorylation and reduced nuclear PTEN levels in lung cancer patient samples establishing phosphorylation as a bona fide inactivation mechanism for PTEN in lung cancer.
Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN) is a lipid and protein phosphatase and possesses an antitumor effect in lung cancers. miRNAs are reportedly abnormally expressed in human lung cancers.
Recent evidence suggests that downregulation of gene of phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 plays an important role in acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors in various types of cancers, including lung cancer.
We have developed a Drosophila lung cancer model by targeting Ras1(G12V)--alone or in combination with PTEN knockdown--to the Drosophila tracheal system.