PMID- 28867195 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20171023 LR - 20191210 IS - 1090-2104 (Electronic) IS - 0006-291X (Linking) VI - 493 IP - 1 DP - 2017 Nov 4 TI - Simultaneous targeting PI3K and PERK pathways promotes cell death and improves the clinical prognosis in esophageal squamous carcinoma. PG - 534-541 LID - S0006-291X(17)31730-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.08.156 [doi] AB - PI3K pathway is an important anti-tumor target, but its effect and mechanism is not clear in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). By analysis of the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) datasets, we found that PI3Ks level were significantly upregulated in human esophageal cancer tissues compared with that in non-cancer tissues. The alteration of PI3K can significantly affect the overall patient survival in ESCC but not in esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). We found that the classic PI3K inhibitor LY294002 obviously inhibited the canonical mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway and restrained the growth of ESCC with less toxicity to normal cells. Besides, LY294002 inhibited noncanonical PKR-like ER kinase (PERK)/elF2alpha/ATF4 pathway as well. Both siRNA and the small molecule inhibitor GSK2656157 against PERK/elF2alpha/ATF4 pathway can significantly inhibit the growth of ESCC. More importantly, GSK2656157 aggravated the inhibitory effect of LY294002 on cell growth, colony formation, and apoptosis induction of ESCC. In addition of dual high expression of PI3K and PERK pathways in the ESCC patients, the difference of overall survival (OS) was more significant than using PI3K alone. These results indicated that dual targeting of PI3K and PERK pathways might improve clinical prognosis and enhance the treatment of ESCC patients. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Wang, Shao-Qi AU - Wang SQ AD - Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Department of Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. FAU - Wang, Xiao AU - Wang X AD - Department of Pharmacy, Shenzhen People's Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, China. FAU - Zheng, Kai AU - Zheng K AD - Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. FAU - Liu, Kai-Sheng AU - Liu KS AD - Department of Pharmacy, Shenzhen People's Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, China. FAU - Wang, Shao-Xiang AU - Wang SX AD - Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. Electronic address: wsx@szu.edu.cn. FAU - Xie, Cong-Hua AU - Xie CH AD - Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Department of Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: chxie_65@whu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170901 PL - United States TA - Biochem Biophys Res Commun JT - Biochemical and biophysical research communications JID - 0372516 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (GSK2656157) RN - 0 (Indoles) RN - 0 (Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (EIF2AK3 protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (eIF-2 Kinase) RN - JAC85A2161 (Adenine) SB - IM MH - Adenine/administration & dosage/*analogs & derivatives MH - Aged MH - Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage MH - Apoptosis/*drug effects MH - Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/*drug therapy/*metabolism/mortality MH - China/epidemiology MH - Esophageal Neoplasms/*drug therapy/*metabolism/mortality MH - Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Indoles/*administration & dosage MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/*metabolism MH - Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors MH - Prevalence MH - Prognosis MH - Signal Transduction/*drug effects MH - Survival Rate MH - Treatment Outcome MH - eIF-2 Kinase/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - ESCC OT - GSK2656157 OT - LY294002 OT - PERK OT - PI3K OT - mTOR EDAT- 2017/09/05 06:00 MHDA- 2017/10/24 06:00 CRDT- 2017/09/05 06:00 PHST- 2017/08/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/08/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/10/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/05 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-291X(17)31730-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.08.156 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Nov 4;493(1):534-541. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.08.156. Epub 2017 Sep 1.