TY - JOUR
T1 - Serum and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) activation in breast cancer
T2 - Requirement for mTORC1 activity associates with ER-alpha expression
AU - Hall, Ben A.
AU - Kim, Tae Yeon
AU - Skor, Maxwell N.
AU - Conzen, Suzanne D.
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Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. David Sabatini and Nathanael Gray for supplying Torin1. The authors also thank the members of the Conzen, Greene, and Brady laboratories for useful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. This study was supported by NIH grants R01CA089208 and R21CA149472 to SDC. TYK was supported by a University of Chicago Biological Sciences Collegiate Division 2011 Summer Research Fellowship.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an attractive target for cancer treatment. While rapamycin and its derivatives (e.g., everolimus) have been shown to inhibit mTOR signaling and cell proliferation in preclinical models of breast cancer,mTORinhibition has demonstrated variable clinical efficacy with a trend toward better responses in estrogen receptor alpha positive (ERα+) compared to ERα negative (ERα-) tumors. Recently, serum-and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) was identified as a substrate of mTOR kinase activity. Previous studies have alternatively suggested that either mTORC1 or mTORC2 is exclusively required for SGK1's Ser422 phosphorylation and activation in breast cancer cells. We investigated the effect of rapamycin on the growth of several ERα+ and ERα-breast cancer cell lines and examined differences in the phosphorylation of mTOR substrates (SGK1, p70S6K, and Akt) that might account for the differing sensitivity of these cell lines to rapamycin. We also examined which mTOR complex contributes to SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation in ERα+ versus ERα-breast cell lines. We then assessed whether inhibiting SGK1 activity added to rapamycin-mediated cell growth inhibition by either using the SGK1 inhibitor GSK650394A or expressing an SGK1 shRNA. We observed sensitivity to rapamycin-mediated growth inhibition and inactivation of insulin-mediated SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation in ERα+ MCF-7 and T47D cells, but not in ERα-MDA-MB-231 or MCF10AMyc cells. In addition, either depleting SGK1 with shRNA or inhibiting SGK1 with GSK650394A preferentially sensitized MDA-MB-231 cells to rapamycin. Finally, we found that rapamycin-sensitive SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation required ERα expression in MCF-7 derived cell lines. Therefore, targeting SGK1 activity may improve the efficacy of rapamycin and its analogs in the treatment of ERα-breast cancer.
AB - Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an attractive target for cancer treatment. While rapamycin and its derivatives (e.g., everolimus) have been shown to inhibit mTOR signaling and cell proliferation in preclinical models of breast cancer,mTORinhibition has demonstrated variable clinical efficacy with a trend toward better responses in estrogen receptor alpha positive (ERα+) compared to ERα negative (ERα-) tumors. Recently, serum-and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) was identified as a substrate of mTOR kinase activity. Previous studies have alternatively suggested that either mTORC1 or mTORC2 is exclusively required for SGK1's Ser422 phosphorylation and activation in breast cancer cells. We investigated the effect of rapamycin on the growth of several ERα+ and ERα-breast cancer cell lines and examined differences in the phosphorylation of mTOR substrates (SGK1, p70S6K, and Akt) that might account for the differing sensitivity of these cell lines to rapamycin. We also examined which mTOR complex contributes to SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation in ERα+ versus ERα-breast cell lines. We then assessed whether inhibiting SGK1 activity added to rapamycin-mediated cell growth inhibition by either using the SGK1 inhibitor GSK650394A or expressing an SGK1 shRNA. We observed sensitivity to rapamycin-mediated growth inhibition and inactivation of insulin-mediated SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation in ERα+ MCF-7 and T47D cells, but not in ERα-MDA-MB-231 or MCF10AMyc cells. In addition, either depleting SGK1 with shRNA or inhibiting SGK1 with GSK650394A preferentially sensitized MDA-MB-231 cells to rapamycin. Finally, we found that rapamycin-sensitive SGK1-Ser422 phosphorylation required ERα expression in MCF-7 derived cell lines. Therefore, targeting SGK1 activity may improve the efficacy of rapamycin and its analogs in the treatment of ERα-breast cancer.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα)
KW - Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)
KW - Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)
KW - Rapamycin
KW - Serum and glucocorticoidregulated kinase 1 (SGK1)
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U2 - 10.1007/s10549-012-2161-y
DO - 10.1007/s10549-012-2161-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 22842983
AN - SCOPUS:84866540757
SN - 0167-6806
VL - 135
SP - 469
EP - 479
JO - Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
JF - Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
IS - 2
ER -