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PMID | (18787170) | ||||||||||||
Authors | Mao JH, Kim IJ, Wu D, Climent J, Kang HC, DelRosario R, Balmain A | ||||||||||||
Title | FBXW7 targets mTOR for degradation and cooperates with PTEN in tumor suppression. | ||||||||||||
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Abstract Text | The enzyme mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) is a major target for therapeutic intervention to treat many human diseases, including cancer, but very little is known about the processes that control levels of mTOR protein. Here, we show that mTOR is targeted for ubiquitination and consequent degradation by binding to the tumor suppressor protein FBXW7. Human breast cancer cell lines and primary tumors showed a reciprocal relation between loss of FBXW7 and deletion or mutation of PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog), which also activates mTOR. Tumor cell lines harboring deletions or mutations in FBXW7 are particularly sensitive to rapamycin treatment, which suggests that loss of FBXW7 may be a biomarker for human cancers susceptible to treatment with inhibitors of the mTOR pathway. |
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FBXW7 inact mut | breast cancer | sensitive | Sirolimus | Preclinical - Cell line xenograft | Actionable | In a preclinical study, breast cancer cells harboring a FBXW7 mutation demonstrated sensitivity to Rapamune (sirolimus) in culture and in cell line xenograft models (PMID: 18787170). | 18787170 |