Akt inhibitors in cancer treatment: The long journey from drug discovery to clinical use

GM Nitulescu, D Margina… - International …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
Targeted cancer therapies are used to inhibit the growth, progression, and metastasis of the
tumor by interfering with specific molecular targets and are currently the focus of anticancer …

The “Other” Inositols and Their Phosphates: Synthesis, Biology, and Medicine (with Recent Advances in myo‐Inositol Chemistry)

MP Thomas, SJ Mills, BVL Potter - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Cell signaling via inositol phosphates, in particular via the second messenger myo‐inositol
1, 4, 5‐trisphosphate, and phosphoinositides comprises a huge field of biology. Of the nine …

Signaling specificity in the Akt pathway in biology and disease

A Toker, S Marmiroli - Advances in biological regulation, 2014 - Elsevier
Akt/PKB is a key master regulator of a wide range of physiological functions including
metabolism, proliferation, survival, growth, angiogenesis and migration and invasion. The …

Role of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signalling in oncogenesis

M El-Tanani, H Nsairat, AA Aljabali, Á Serrano-Aroca… - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The signalling system known as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is believed to be
required for several biological activities involving cell proliferation. The serine-threonine …

[HTML][HTML] Deregulated PTEN/PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in prostate cancer: still a potential druggable target?

L Braglia, M Zavatti, M Vinceti, AM Martelli… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the prognosis of patients with localized prostate cancer is good after surgery, with
a favorable response to androgen deprivation therapy, about one third of them invariably …

[HTML][HTML] Pleckstrin Homology [PH] domain, structure, mechanism, and contribution to human disease

G Powis, EJ Meuillet, M Indarte, G Booher… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pleckstrin homology [PH] domain is a structural fold found in more than 250 proteins
making it the 11th most common domain in the human proteome. 25% of family members …

Grading the commercial optical biosensor literature—Class of 2008:'The Mighty Binders'

RL Rich, DG Myszka - Journal of Molecular Recognition: An …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Optical biosensor technology continues to be the method of choice for label‐free, real‐time
interaction analysis. But when it comes to improving the quality of the biosensor literature …

Small molecule inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-3, 4, 5-triphosphate (PIP3) binding to pleckstrin homology domains

B Miao, I Skidan, J Yang, A Lugovskoy… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The PI3-kinase (PI3K) pathway regulates many cellular processes, especially cell
metabolism, cell survival, and apoptosis. Phosphatidylinositol-3, 4, 5-trisphosphate (PIP3) …

Small-molecule inhibitors of the PI3K signaling network

CR McNamara, A Degterev - Future medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway controls a wide variety of cellular
processes including cell death and survival, cell migration, protein synthesis and …

Lactic acid promotes nucleus pulposus cell senescence and corresponding intervertebral disc degeneration via interacting with Akt

Y Zhang, L Liu, Y Qi, J Lou, Y Chen, C Liu, H Li… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
The accumulation of metabolites in the intervertebral disc is considered an important cause
of intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). Lactic acid, which is a metabolite that is produced …