Inhibition of Akt increases p27Kip1 levels and induces cell cycle arrest in anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

نویسندگان

  • George Z Rassidakis
  • Marianna Feretzaki
  • Coralyn Atwell
  • Ioannis Grammatikakis
  • Quan Lin
  • Raymond Lai
  • Francois-Xavier Claret
  • L Jeffrey Medeiros
  • Hesham M Amin
چکیده

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a highly proliferative neoplasm that frequently carries the t(2;5)(p23;q35) and aberrantly expresses nucleophosmin-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (NPM-ALK). Previously, NPM-ALK had been shown to activate the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway. As the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor p27(Kip1) (p27) is usually not expressed in ALCL, we hypothesized that activated Akt (pAkt) phosphorylates p27 resulting in increased p27 proteolysis and cell cycle progression. Here we demonstrate that inhibition of pAkt activity in ALCL decreases p27 phosphorylation and degradation, resulting in increased p27 levels and cell cycle arrest. Using immunohistochemistry, pAkt was detected in 24 (57%) of 42 ALCL tumors, including 8 (44%) of 18 ALK-positive tumors and 16 (67%) of 24 ALK-negative tumors, and was inversely correlated with p27 levels. The mean percentage of p27-positive tumor cells was 5% in the pAkt-positive group compared with 26% in the pAkt-negative group (P = .0076). These findings implicate that Akt activation promotes cell cycle progression through inactivation of p27 in ALCL.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Blood

دوره 105 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005