Meta-Biol

• Pathways

The kinase activity of PI3K mediates the phosphorylation of PIP2 to form PIP3. It is assumed that EGFR cancer mutants induce PI3K/AKT signaling in a manner similar to wild-type EGFR. Phosphorylation of AKT on serine residue S473, and therby activation of PI3K/AKT signaling cascade, has been directly demonstrated in cells expressing the following EGFR cancer mutants: EGFR L858R mutant (Sordella et al. 2004, Paez et al. 2004, Greulich et al. 2005, Shimamura et al. 2005); EGFR G719S mutant (Greulich et al. 2005); EGFR E746_A750del mutant (Sordella et al. 2004, Shimamura et al. 2005); EGFR L747_P753insS mutant (Sordella et al. 2004); EGFR L747_A750delinsP mutant (Greulich et al. 2005); EGFR L861Q mutant (Lee et al. 2006); EGFR D770_N771insNPG mutant (Greulich et al. 2005, Xu et al. 2007); EGFR N771_H773dup mutant (Xu et al. 2007); EGFR K739_I744dup mutant (Xu et al. 2007); EGFR A767_V769dup mutant (Xu et al. 2007); EGFR E746_A750del;T790M double mutant (Shimamura et al. 2005).