Title:Four Major Factors Regulate Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Signaling Pathway in Cancers Induced by Infection of Human Papillomaviruses
Volume: 21
Issue: 26
Author(s): Jianghong Wu, Jiezhong Chen, Lifang Zhang, Paul P. Masci and Kong-Nan Zhao
Affiliation:
Keywords:
AKT, growth factor receptor, human papillomavirus, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), notch receptor,
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), PI3KCAgene, rasgene.
Abstract: Epidemiological surveys and molecular studies have indicated that infection of human papillomavirus
(HPV)itself is necessary but insufficient for completing transformation of the human epithelial cells in vivo to lead to
different cancers. Mounting evidence exists that HPV E6/E7 oncoproteins indeed alter the cellular and molecular
events in their transformed cells to induce cancers through a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian
target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway is, nonetheless, of the central
importance, which tightly modulates many cellular events that occur in cells to lead them to be cancerous under the
action of oncogenic factors. The cancinogenic roles of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in HPV-induced cancers are
generally regulated by different upstream signaling molecules such as upstream receptor tyrosine kinases. In this article,
we review that the four major upstream signaling molecules (growth factor receptor, notch receptor, Ras and
PI3KCA genes) regulate PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway to confer oncogenicity in HPV-immortalized epithelial cells and
various transformed phenotypes.
