Delineating the mechanism by which selenium deactivates Akt in prostate cancer cells

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Yue WuClement Ip

Abstract

The up-regulation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway is prevalent in many cancers. This phenomenon makes PI3K and Akt fruitful targets for cancer therapy and/or prevention because they are mediators of cell survival signaling. Although the suppression of phospho-Akt by selenium has been reported previously, little information is available on whether selenium modulates primarily the PI3K-phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) side of Akt phosphorylation or the phosphatase side of Akt dephosphorylation. The present study was aimed at addressing these questions in PC-3 prostate cancer cells which are phosphatase and tensin homologue-null. Our results showed that selenium decreased Akt phosphorylation at Thr308 (by PDK1) and Ser473 (by an unidentified kinase); the Thr308 site was more sensitive to selenium inhibition than the Ser473 site. The protein levels of PI3K and phospho-PDK1 were not affected by selenium. However, the activity of PI3K was reduced by 30% in selenium-treated cells, thus discouraging the recruitment of PDK1 and Akt to the membrane due to low phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate formation by PI3K. Consistent with the above interpretation, the membrane localization of PDK1 and Akt was...Continue Reading

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