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J Pathol ; 258(4): 382-394, 2022 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36073856

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PTEN is one of the most commonly inactivated tumour suppressor genes in sporadic cancer. Germline heterozygous PTEN gene alterations also underlie PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome (PHTS), a rare human cancer-predisposition condition. A key feature of systemic PTEN deregulation is the inability to adequately dampen PI3-kinase (PI3K)/mTORC1 signalling. PI3K/mTORC1 pathway inhibitors such as rapamycin are therefore expected to neutralise the impact of PTEN loss, rendering this a more druggable context compared with those of other tumour suppressor pathways such as loss of TP53. However, this has not been explored in cancer prevention in a model of germline cancer predisposition, such as PHTS. Clinical trials of short-term treatment with rapamycin have recently been initiated for PHTS, focusing on cognition and colon polyposis. Here, we administered a low dose of rapamycin from the age of 6 weeks onwards to mice with heterozygous germline Pten loss, a mouse model that recapitulates most characteristics of human PHTS. Rapamycin was well tolerated and led to a highly significant improvement of survival in both male and female mice. This was accompanied by a delay in, but not full blockade of, the development of a range of proliferative lesions, including gastro-intestinal and thyroid tumours and endometrial hyperplasia, with no impact on mammary and prostate tumours, and no effect on brain overgrowth. Our data indicate that rapamycin may have cancer prevention potential in human PHTS. This might also be the case for sporadic cancers in which genetic PI3K pathway activation is an early event in tumour development, such as endometrial cancer and some breast cancers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a long-term treatment of a germline cancer predisposition model with a PI3K/mTOR pathway inhibitor. © 2022 The Authors. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.


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Síndrome do Hamartoma Múltiplo , Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide , Camundongos , Animais , Masculino , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Sirolimo/farmacologia , Sirolimo/uso terapêutico , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/genética , Longevidade , PTEN Fosfo-Hidrolase/genética , PTEN Fosfo-Hidrolase/metabolismo , Síndrome do Hamartoma Múltiplo/tratamento farmacológico , Síndrome do Hamartoma Múltiplo/genética , Síndrome do Hamartoma Múltiplo/patologia , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinase/genética , Inibidores de Fosfoinositídeo-3 Quinase , Alvo Mecanístico do Complexo 1 de Rapamicina/genética , Células Germinativas/metabolismo , Mutação em Linhagem Germinativa
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