PMID- 24184801 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150420 LR - 20211203 IS - 1555-8576 (Electronic) IS - 1538-4047 (Print) IS - 1538-4047 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 12 DP - 2013 Dec TI - Dysregulation of the mTOR pathway in p53-deficient mice. PG - 1182-8 LID - 10.4161/cbt.26947 [doi] AB - Mammalian or mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is involved in growth, aging, and age-related diseases including cancer. There is an extensive cross talk between p53 and mTOR. In cell culture, p53 inhibits the mTOR pathway in a cell type-dependent manner. p53-deficient mice develop pro-inflammation and cancer. We have shown that rapamycin delayed cancer and extended lifespan, thus partially substituting for p53. Here we show that a marker of mTOR activity, phosphorylated S6 (p-S6), is increased in the hearts of p53-deficient mice. Furthermore, cardiac p-S6 correlated with body weight. Also, p53(-/-) mice were slightly hyperinsulinemic with a tendency to elevated IGF-1. Radiation exacerbated the difference between IGF-1 levels in normal and p53(-/-) mice. Noteworthy, radiation induced Thr-308 Akt phosphorylation in the livers (but not in the hearts) of both p53(+/+) and p53(-/-) mice. Simultaneously, radiation decreased p-S6 in the livers of normal mice, consistent with the negative effect of p53 on mTOR. Our data indicate that the activity of mTOR is increased in some but not all tissues of p53(-/-) mice, associated with the tendency to increased insulin and IGF-1 levels. Therefore, the absence of p53 may create oncophilic microenvironment, favoring cancer. FAU - Leontieva, Olga V AU - Leontieva OV AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. FAU - Novototskaya, Liliya R AU - Novototskaya LR AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. FAU - Paszkiewicz, Geraldine M AU - Paszkiewicz GM AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. FAU - Komarova, Elena A AU - Komarova EA AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. FAU - Gudkov, Andrei V AU - Gudkov AV AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. FAU - Blagosklonny, Mikhail V AU - Blagosklonny MV AD - Department of Cell Stress Biology; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY USA. LA - eng GR - P30 CA016056/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20131101 PL - United States TA - Cancer Biol Ther JT - Cancer biology & therapy JID - 101137842 RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, IGF Type 1) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Liver/metabolism MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Myocardium/metabolism MH - Organ Specificity MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism MH - Receptor, IGF Type 1/genetics MH - Signal Transduction MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*genetics PMC - PMC3912042 OTO - NOTNLM OT - aging OT - cancer OT - inflammation OT - mTOR OT - p53 OT - rapalog OT - rapamycin OT - senescence EDAT- 2013/11/05 06:00 MHDA- 2015/04/22 06:00 PMCR- 2014/12/01 CRDT- 2013/11/05 06:00 PHST- 2013/11/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/11/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/04/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 26947 [pii] AID - 2013CBT6729R [pii] AID - 10.4161/cbt.26947 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Biol Ther. 2013 Dec;14(12):1182-8. doi: 10.4161/cbt.26947. Epub 2013 Nov 1.