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Publication : Mice expressing myrAKT1 in the mammary gland develop carcinogen-induced ER-positive mammary tumors that mimic human breast cancer.

First Author  Blanco-Aparicio C Year  2007
Journal  Carcinogenesis Volume  28
Issue  3 Pages  584-94
PubMed ID  17050554 Mgi Jnum  J:120002
Mgi Id  MGI:3703668 Doi  10.1093/carcin/bgl190
Citation  Blanco-Aparicio C, et al. (2007) Mice expressing myrAKT1 in the mammary gland develop carcinogen-induced ER-positive mammary tumors that mimic human breast cancer. Carcinogenesis 28(3):584-94
abstractText  AKT1/PKB is a serine/threonine protein kinase that regulates biological processes such as proliferation, apoptosis and growth in a variety of cell types. To assess the oncogenic capability of an activated form of AKT in vivo we have generated several transgenic mouse lines that overexpress in the mammary epithelium the murine Akt1 gene modified with a myristoylation signal, which renders active this protein by localizing it to the plasma membrane. We demonstrate that expression of myristoylated AKT in the mammary glands increases the susceptibility of these mice to the induction of mammary tumors of epithelial origin by the carcinogen 9,10-dimethyl-1,2 benzanthracene (DMBA). We have found that while carcinogen-treated wild-type mice show mostly mammary tumors of sarcomatous origin, AKT transgenic mice treated with DMBA developed mainly adenocarcinoma or adenosquamous tumors, all of them displaying activated AKT. We analyzed other possible molecular alterations cooperating with AKT and found that neither Ras nor beta-catenin/Wnt pathways seemed altered nor p53 mutated. We have found that 100% of mammary DMBA-induced tumors and benign lesions in myrAKT mice are estrogen receptor (ERalpha)-positive and are more frequent than in wild-type littermates. These data show that AKT activation cooperates with deregulation of the estrogen receptor in the DMBA-induced mammary tumorigenesis model and recapitulate two characteristics of some human breast tumors. Thus, our model might provide a preclinical relevant model system to study the role of AKT and ERalpha in breast tumorigenesis and the response of mammary gland tumors to chemotherapeutics.
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