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XB-ART-4508
Mol Cancer Ther 2003 Oct 01;210:1067-78.
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Inhibition of lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase beta disrupts proliferative and survival signals in normal cells and induces apoptosis of tumor cells.

Coon M , Ball A , Pound J , Ap S , Hollenback D , White T , Tulinsky J , Bonham L , Morrison DK , Finney R , Singer JW .


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Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase beta (LPAAT-beta) is an intrinsic membrane protein that catalyzes the synthesis of phosphatidic acid (PA) from lysoPA. Given that PA is a cofactor in a number of signaling cascades that are constitutively active in tumors, we evaluated the role of PA produced by LPAAT-beta in Xenopus oocyte meiotic maturation assays and an isoform-specific inhibitor of LPAAT-beta in mammalian cell assays. We found that ectopic overexpression of LPAAT-beta cooperates in activation of the Ras/Raf/Erk pathway in Xenopus oocytes and that inhibition of LPAAT-beta inhibits signaling in both the Ras/Raf/Erk and PI3K/Akt pathways. When LPAAT-beta activity is suppressed by CT32228 (N-(4-bromo-phenyl)-6-(5-chloro-2-methyl-phenyl)-[1,3,5]triazine-2,4-diamine), an isoform-specific noncompetitive inhibitor, tumor cells undergo mitotic catastrophe while most normal cells simply arrest or become quiescent. The data presented here suggest that PA produced by LPAAT-beta plays an important role in signaling pathways critical to tumor cell survival.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: agpat2 mapk1 pik3ca pik3cb pik3cg