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Article Dans Une Revue Neuro-Oncology Année : 2010

Akt signaling pathway: a target for radiosensitizing human malignant glioma

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Radiation therapy plays a central role in the treatment of glioblastoma, but it is not curative due to the high tumor radioresistance. Phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B (Akt) and Janus kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) pathways serve to block the apoptosis process, keeping cells alive in very toxic environments such as chemotherapy or ionizing radiation. In the present study, from a panel of 8 human malignant glioma cell lines, investigations on the relationship between intrinsic radioresistance and Akt or STAT3 basal activation were done. Secondly, the impact of down-modulation of Akt or STAT3 signaling on in vitro intrinsic radiosensitivity was evaluated. Using a clonogenic cell survival assay, our results revealed a significant correlation between the basal Akt activation and the surviving fraction at 2 Gy (SF2). In contrast, no correlation was found between STAT3 activation and SF2. According to this, down-modulation of Akt with a specific chemical inhibitor (Akt inhibitor IV) demonstrated a significant enhancement of radiation sensitivity on glioma cells in a clonogenic survival assay. On the contrary, down-modulation of STAT3 signaling with a specific chemical inhibitor (JSI-124) or a neutralizing gp130 antibody failed to radiosensitize glioma cells. These data indicate that the Akt intercept node could be a more relevant therapeutic target than STAT3 for radiosensitizing human malignant glioma.
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hal-01636179 , version 1 (17-11-2017)

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Emmanuel Chautard, Gaëlle Loubeau, Andrei Tchirkov, Jacques Chassagne, Claudine Vermot-Desroches, et al.. Akt signaling pathway: a target for radiosensitizing human malignant glioma. Neuro-Oncology, 2010, 12 (5), pp.434-443. ⟨10.1093/neuonc/nop059⟩. ⟨hal-01636179⟩
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