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. 1996 Dec;16(12):6744-51.
doi: 10.1128/MCB.16.12.6744.

Rapamycin resistance tied to defective regulation of p27Kip1

Y Luo  1 , S O Marx, H Kiyokawa, A Koff, J Massagué, A R Marks
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Rapamycin resistance tied to defective regulation of p27Kip1

Y Luo et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1996 Dec.

Abstract

The potent antiproliferative activity of the macrolide antibiotic rapamycin is known to involve binding of the drug to its cytosolic receptor, FKBP12, and subsequent interaction with targets of rapamycin, resulting in inhibition of p70 S6 kinase (p70S6K). However, the downstream events that lead to inhibition of cell cycle progression remain to be elucidated. The antiproliferative effects of rapamycin are associated with prevention of mitogen-induced downregulation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1, suggesting that the latter may play an important role in the growth pathway targeted by rapamycin. Murine BC3H1 cells, selected for resistance to growth inhibition by rapamycin, exhibited an intact p70S6K pathway but had abnormally low p27 levels that were no longer responsive to mitogens or rapamycin. Fibroblasts and T lymphocytes from mice with a targeted disruption of the p27Kip1 gene had impaired growth-inhibitory responses to rapamycin. These results suggest that the ability to regulate p27Kip1 levels is important for rapamycin to exert its antiproliferative effects.

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