The impact of PIK3R1 mutations and insulin-PI3K-glycolytic pathway regulation in prostate cancer Journal Article


Authors: Chakraborty, G.; Nandakumar, S.; Hirani, R.; Nguyen, B.; Stopsack, K. H.; Kreitzer, C.; Rajanala, S. H.; Ghale, R.; Mazzu, Y. Z.; Pillarsetty, N. V. K.; Lee, G. S. M.; Scher, H. I.; Morris, M. J.; Traina, T.; Razavi, P.; Abida, W.; Durack, J. C.; Solomon, S. B.; Vander Heiden, M. G.; Mucci, L. A.; Wibmer, A. G.; Schultz, N.; Kantoff, P. W.
Article Title: The impact of PIK3R1 mutations and insulin-PI3K-glycolytic pathway regulation in prostate cancer
Abstract: PURPOSE: Oncogenic alterations of the PI3K/AKT pathway occur in >40% of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, predominantly via PTEN loss. The significance of other PI3K pathway components in prostate cancer is largely unknown. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Patients in this study underwent tumor sequencing using the MSK-IMPACT clinical assay to capture single-nucleotide variants, insertions, and deletions; copy-number alterations; and structural rearrangements, or were profiled through The Cancer Genome Atlas. The association between PIK3R1 alteration/expression and survival was evaluated using univariable and multivariable Cox proportional-hazards regression models. We used the siRNA-based knockdown of PIK3R1 for functional studies. FDG-PET/CT examinations were performed with a hybrid positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scanner for some prostate cancer patients in the MSK-IMPACT cohort. RESULTS: Analyzing 1,417 human prostate cancers, we found a significant enrichment of PIK3R1 alterations in metastatic cancers compared with primary cancers. PIK3R1 alterations or reduced mRNA expression tended to be associated with worse clinical outcomes in prostate cancer, particularly in primary disease, as well as in breast, gastric, and several other cancers. In prostate cancer cell lines, PIK3R1 knockdown resulted in increased cell proliferation and AKT activity, including insulin-stimulated AKT activity. In cell lines and organoids, PIK3R1 loss/mutation was associated with increased sensitivity to AKT inhibitors. PIK3R1-altered patient prostate tumors had increased uptake of the glucose analogue 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in PET imaging, suggesting increased glycolysis. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings describe a novel genomic feature in metastatic prostate cancer and suggest that PIK3R1 alteration may be a key event for insulin-PI3K-glycolytic pathway regulation in prostate cancer. ©2022 American Association for Cancer Research.
Journal Title: Clinical Cancer Research
Volume: 28
Issue: 16
ISSN: 1078-0432
Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research  
Date Published: 2022-08-15
Start Page: 3603
End Page: 3617
Language: English
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.Ccr-21-4272
PUBMED: 35670774
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC9438279
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Notes: Article -- Export Date: 1 September 2022 -- Source: Scopus
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  2. Tiffany A Traina
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  3. Stephen Solomon
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  4. Howard Scher
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  5. Wassim Abida
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  6. Nikolaus D Schultz
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  7. Jeremy Charles Durack
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  8. Ying Zhang Mazzu
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  9. Andreas Georg Wibmer
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  10. Pedram Razavi
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  11. Philip Wayne Kantoff
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  12. Bastien Nguyen
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  13. Rahim Hirani
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  14. Romina Ghale
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