Moreover, we demonstrated that the miR-20a/LRIG1 axis regulated GC cell MDR through epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mediated PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK signaling pathways.
This study revealed that (1) PIK3CA hotspot mutations occurred with low frequency in gastric cancer; (2) PIK3CA hotspot mutations were not directly associated with PI3K pathway activation; and (3) p-AKT (+) may be a biomarker for better outcomes for gastric cancer patients undergoing gastrectomy regardless of the PIK3CA mutation status.
This is the first time this extensive panel of 9 genes within PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway has been studied in GC to clarify the biological role of this pathway in GC and develop new strategies for this malignancy.
In conclusion, miR-34a may act as a potential tumour suppressor in gastric cancer and is associated with the mechanisms of gastric cancer metastasis; miR-34a can inhibit gastric cancer tumourigenesis by targeting PDGFR and MET through the PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase)/Akt pathway.
LOC101928316 molecular mechanism investigates suggested that LOC101928316 can regulate PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway and change the GC development progression in vivo and in vitro.
PIK3R3, the gene that encodes the PI3K regulatory subunit p55γ, is over-expressed in glioblastoma and ovarian cancers, but its expression in gastric cancer (GC) is not known.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanism of microRNA-4295 (miR-4295), which regulates cisplatin (DDP)-induced apoptosis in GC cells through the leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains 1 (LRIG1)-mediated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) signaling pathway.
Spry2 was a direct target of miR-592 and Spry2 overexpression partially counteracted the effects of miR-592. miR-592 induced the EMT and promoted its progression in GC via the PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK signaling pathways by inhibiting Spry2.
The experimental methods are as follows: (1) The proliferation of HGC-27 cells inhibited by Apatinib and LY294002 was observed by 3-(4,5)-dimethylthiahiazo-(z-y1)-3,5-diphenytetrazoli- umromide (MTT) assay; (2) flow cytometry was adopted to detect the apoptosis of cells after they were treated with drugs and the positive control; (3) different effects of varying concentrations of Apatinib on apoptosis-related genes and proteins, B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2), Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax) and cysteine-aspartic acid protease (Caspase) 9, were detected via fluorescence quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Western blotting (WB), and the effects of different concentrations of Apatinib on the protein expressions of PI3K, phosphorylated (p)-PI3K, Akt and p-Akt were detected by Western blotting.
The effects of miR-34a ectopic expression on the AKT and p-AKT expression of cisplatin-induce gastric cancer cells were determined by Western blot and flow cytometry with the PI3K pathway inhibitor Wortmannin.
Taken together, our findings identify the MUC16-PI3K/Akt/mTOR-Myc axis as a critical signaling cascade that couples genomic mutations to metabolic reprogramming in GC.
Therefore, how PTEN lipid phosphatase inactivation contributes to the occurrence and development of gastric cancer and the potential role of the Hippo and PI3K/Akt pathways in PTEN lipid phosphatase inactivation mediated gastric tumorigenesis remain to be explored.