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PI3-kinase and the control of T cell growth and proliferation by FoxOs Volume 93, numéro 5, Mai 2006

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Institut Cochin, Départment de biologie cellulaire, Inserm U567, CNRS UMR8104. Université René-Descartes, équipe labellisée par la Ligne nationale contre le cancer, 22 rue Méchain, 75014 Paris
  • Page(s) : 10036-8
  • Année de parution : 2006

Numerous cancers are caused by an uncontrolled uncontrolled activity of the PI3-kinase pathway. The proto-oncogene Akt, one of its main effectors, commands several molecular switches involved in cell survival and proliferation. One of these switches is represented by a group of related molecules belonging to the Forkhead family of transcription factors, called FoxOs. FoxOs negatively control cell cycle entry and this process emerges now as a mainstream mechanism used by various cell types to escape cell quiescence. In the light of recent works, FoxOs seem also to have a key role in the proliferative response of immune cells, especially in the clonal expansion of T lymphocytes induced by antigen. Experimental evidence supporting a relationship in T cells between PI3-kinase metabolism and these growth suppressive genes will be described in this mini-review.