Journal: Breast Cancer Research : BCR
Article Title: Direct inhibition of PI3K in combination with dual HER2 inhibitors is required for optimal antitumor activity in HER2+ breast cancer cells
doi: 10.1186/bcr3601
Figure Lengend Snippet: PIK3CA mutation uncouples phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling from HER2 inhibition by lapatinib. (A) BT474 and SKBR3 cells infected with wild-type, E545K or H1047R constructs were treated with lapatinib at the indicated doses, and lysates were analyzed by immunoblotting with the indicated antibodies. (B) Lysates from PIK3CA wild-type or mutant expressing cells treated with a range of lapatinib doses (0.0016 to 5 μM) were analyzed by ELISA for pHER2, pAkt and pS6. Half-maximal concentration (IC 50 ) values were calculated, and the mean log IC 50 ± SEM values for three replicate dose–inhibitor curves are shown. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001 and **** P < 0.0001. (C) HER2+ cell lines with wild-type PIK3CA (BT474 or SKBR3) or with a PIK3CA mutation (MDA361, HCC1954, SUM190 or UACC893) were treated with varying lapatinib doses and analyzed as described in (B) . Mean log IC 50 values from three replicates ± SEM are shown. Mean IC 50 data are shown in Table .
Article Snippet: Antibodies from the following sources were used for analysis: pHER2 Y1248 (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA); Y877 pHER2 (Epitomics, Burlingame, CA, USA); Y1221/2 pHER2, Y11197 and Y1289 pHER3, S473 pAkt, Akt, S240/44 pS6, pErk1/2, Erk, and p110α PI3K (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA); p85 N-terminal Src homology 2 (SH2) domain (EMD Millipore); HA (Covance, Princeton, NJ, USA); actin (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA); HER2 (Thermo Fisher, Pittsburgh, PA, USA); and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA).
Techniques: Mutagenesis, Inhibition, Infection, Construct, Western Blot, Expressing, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Concentration Assay