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      Reciprocal feedback regulation of PI3K and androgen receptor signaling in PTEN-deficient prostate cancer.

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          Prostate cancer is characterized by its dependence on androgen receptor (AR) and frequent activation of PI3K signaling. We find that AR transcriptional output is decreased in human and murine tumors with PTEN deletion and that PI3K pathway inhibition activates AR signaling by relieving feedback inhibition of HER kinases. Similarly, AR inhibition activates AKT signaling by reducing levels of the AKT phosphatase PHLPP. Thus, these two oncogenic pathways cross-regulate each other by reciprocal feedback. Inhibition of one activates the other, thereby maintaining tumor cell survival. However, combined pharmacologic inhibition of PI3K and AR signaling caused near-complete prostate cancer regressions in a Pten-deficient murine prostate cancer model and in human prostate cancer xenografts, indicating that both pathways coordinately support survival.

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          Journal
          Cancer Cell
          Cancer cell
          Elsevier BV
          1878-3686
          1535-6108
          May 17 2011
          : 19
          : 5
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
          Article
          S1535-6108(11)00155-3 HHMIMS300284
          10.1016/j.ccr.2011.04.008
          3142785
          21575859
          1136bc23-9265-4b6a-ae3d-c721d6df47d5
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