Journal article

A balancing act: PHLPP2 fine tunes AKT activity and MYC stability in prostate cancer

R Toivanen, L Furic

Journal of Cell Biology | ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS | Published : 2019

Abstract

PTEN loss stimulates prostate tumor progression by sustaining AKT activation. Nowak et al. (2019. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb. 201902048) surprisingly show that the AKT-suppressing phosphatase PHLPP2 promotes disease progression in the context of dual PTEN and p53 loss by increasing MYC stability.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge funding from the Department of Health and Human Services acting through the Victorian Cancer Agency (MCRF16007 to L. Furic and MCRF18012 to R. Toivanen).