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SUBMITTER: Cortes I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3396516 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cortés Isabel I Sánchez-Ruíz Jesús J Zuluaga Susana S Calvanese Vincenzo V Marqués Miriam M Hernández Carmen C Rivera Teresa T Kremer Leonor L González-García Ana A Carrera Ana C AC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120625 28
PIK3R2 encodes a ubiquitous regulatory subunit (p85β) of PI3K, an enzyme that generates 3-polyphosphoinositides at the plasma membrane. PI3K activation triggers cell survival and migration. We found that p85β expression is elevated in breast and colon carcinomas and that its increased expression correlates with PI3K pathway activation and tumor progression. p85β expression induced moderate PIP(3) generation at the cell membrane and enhanced cell invasion. In accordance, genetic alteration of pik ...[more]