A Pan-Cancer Proteogenomic Atlas of PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway Alterations

Yiqun Zhang, Patrick Kwok-Shing Ng, Melanie Kucherlapati, Fengju Chen, Yuexin Liu, Yiu Huen Tsang, Guillermo de Velasco, Kang Jin Jeong, Rehan Akbani, Angela Hadjipanayis, Angeliki Pantazi, Christopher A. Bristow, Eunjung Lee, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Jiabin Tang, Jianhua Zhang, Lixing Yang, Sahil Seth, Semin Lee, Xiaojia RenXingzhi Song, Huandong Sun, Jonathan Seidman, Lovelace J. Luquette, Ruibin Xi, Lynda Chin, Alexei Protopopov, Thomas F. Westbrook, Carl Simon Shelley, Toni K. Choueiri, Michael Ittmann, Carter Van Waes, John N. Weinstein, Han Liang, Elizabeth P. Henske, Andrew K. Godwin, Peter J. Park, Raju Kucherlapati, Kenneth L. Scott, Gordon B. Mills, David J. Kwiatkowski, Chad J. Creighton

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Abstract

Molecular alterations involving the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway (including mutation, copy number, protein, or RNA) were examined across 11,219 human cancers representing 32 major types. Within specific mutated genes, frequency, mutation hotspot residues, in silico predictions, and functional assays were all informative in distinguishing the subset of genetic variants more likely to have functional relevance. Multiple oncogenic pathways including PI3K/AKT/mTOR converged on similar sets of downstream transcriptional targets. In addition to mutation, structural variations and partial copy losses involving PTEN and STK11 showed evidence for having functional relevance. A substantial fraction of cancers showed high mTOR pathway activity without an associated canonical genetic or genomic alteration, including cancers harboring IDH1 or VHL mutations, suggesting multiple mechanisms for pathway activation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)820-832.e3
JournalCancer cell
Volume31
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 12 2017

Keywords

  • PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
  • The Cancer Genome Atlas
  • integrative genomics analysis
  • pan-cancer analysis
  • proteomics
  • reverse-phase protein arrays

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cell Biology
  • Cancer Research

MD Anderson CCSG core facilities

  • Bioinformatics Shared Resource
  • Functional Proteomics Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
  • Cytogenetics and Cell Authentication Core

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