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AKT and the Hallmarks of Cancer

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Eleonora Sementino
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Dalal Hassan
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Alfonso Bellacosa
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Joseph R. Testa *
DOI:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-1846delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Nearly a quarter century ago, Hanahan and Weinberg conceived six unifying principles explaining how normal cells transform into malignant tumors. Their provisional set of biological capabilities acquired during tumor development-cancer hallmarks-would evolve to 14 tenets as knowledge of cancer genomes, molecular mechanisms, and the tumor microenvironment expanded, most recently adding four emerging enabling characteristics: phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic reprogramming, polymorphic microbiomes, and senescent cells. AKT kinases are critical signaling molecules that regulate cellular physiology upon receptor tyrosine kinases and PI3K activation. The complex branching of the AKT signaling network involves several critical downstream nodes that significantly magnify its functional impact, such that nearly every organ system and cell in the body may be affected by AKT activity. Conversely, tumor-intrinsic dysregulation of AKT can have numerous adverse cellular and pathologic ramifications, particularly in oncogenesis, as multiple tumor suppressors and oncogenic proteins regulate AKT signaling. Herein, we review the mounting evidence implicating the AKT pathway in the aggregate of currently recognized hallmarks of cancer underlying the complexities of human malignant diseases. The challenges, recent successes, and likely areas for exciting future advances in targeting this complex pathway are also discussed.
Keywords:
EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION
CELL-CYCLE PROGRESSION
PROTEIN-KINASE-B
BREAST-CANCER
PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE/AKT
PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE
MEDIATED PHOSPHORYLATION
MOLECULAR-CLONING
MICE LACKING
DNA-DAMAGE

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Cancer Research cover
Cancer Research
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16.6
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10.9W
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11.9W

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Fox Chase Cancer Center
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