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. 2022 Nov 11;17(3):423–443. doi: 10.1007/s12079-022-00702-1

Table 1.

The PI3K/Akt signaling in prostate cancer progression

Signaling networks Remarks Refs
CCR9/CCL25/PI3K/Akt

CCR9 binds to CCL25 to induce PI3K/Akt signaling

Apoptosis inhibition

Reducing anti-cancer activity of etoposide

(Sharma et al. 2010)
EpCAM/PI3K/Akt/mTOR

Association with prostate cancer metastasis

Mediating drug resistance and radio-resistance

EpCAM induces PI3K/Akt signaling

(Ni et al. 2013)
PTEN/PI3K/Akt PTEN suppresses PI3K/Akt signaling to promote cell death caused by cetuximab (Bouali et al. 2009)
PI3K/Akt/GR Inhibition of PI3K/Akt signaling reduces GR expression in reversing enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer (Adelaiye-Ogala et al. 2020)
PI3K/Akt A combination of docetaxel and thymoquinone can stimulate apoptosis in prostate cancer via inhibition of PI3K/Akt signaling (Singh et al. 2019)
ROS/PI3K/Akt/mTOR Arctigenin promotes ROS generation to suppress PI3K/Akt/mTOR axis in inducing mitochondrial dysfunction and impairing tumor progression (Lee et al. 2018)
PI3K/C2β Inhibition of PI3K/C2β reduces cell division in prostate cancer and increases docetaxel sensitivity of tumor cells (Cisse et al. 2019)
INNP4B/PI3K/Akt INPP4B suppresses PI3K/Akt signaling in inhibiting docetaxel resistance (Chen et al. 2016)
PI3K/Akt/mTOR Radiation induces autophagy and promotes drug sensitivity via suppressing PI3K/Akt/mTOR axis (Wu et al. 2018a, b)

PI3K/mTOR

PIM

Co-inhibition of PI3K/mTOR and PIM is promising in suppressing prostate cancer progression (Luszczak et al. 2020)
PI3K/Akt/NF-κB Apigenin suppresses PI3K/Akt axis to reduce NF-κB expression in impairing prostate cancer progression (Erdogan et al. 2016)
PI3K/Akt/mTOR Rottlerin stimulates apoptosis and autophagy in prostate tumor cells (Kumar et al. 2014)

PI3K/Akt

MAPK

Overexpression of PI3K/Akt and MAPK stimulates drug resistance in prostate cancer (Liu et al. 2015)
Midkine/PI3K/Akt Down-regulation of midkine suppresses PI3K/Akt signaling and promotes efficacy of quercetin in prostate tumor inhibition (Erdogan et al. 2018)
SOX2/PI3K/Akt SOX2 stimulates PI3K/Akt signaling in mediating paclitaxel resistance in prostate cancer (Li et al. 2014)
CNTN-1/PI3K/Akt CNTN-1 induces EMT and PI3K/Akt signaling to mediate docetaxel resistance in prostate cancer (Chen et al. 2021a, b)
PI3K/Akt Quercetin promotes docetaxel sensitivity of prostate tumor cells via PI3K/Akt inhibition (Lu et al. 2020)
miRNA-4638-5p/PI3K/Akt miRNA-4638-5p prevents development of castration resistance in prostate cancer via suppressing PI3K/Akt signaling (Wang et al. 2016)
SPP1/PI3K/Akt SPP1 induces PI3K/Akt signaling to mediate EMT and enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer (Pang et al. 2021)
CamKII/Akt/mTOR Citrate suppresses CamKII/Akt/mTOR axis in inducing autophagic cell death in prostate tumor (Fan et al. 2021)
miRNA-1297/PTEN/Akt/ERK miRNA-1297 induces Akt/ERK axis via PTEN down-regulation to increase proliferation and metastasis of prostate tumor cells (Wang et al. 2021a, b, c, d, e, f)
Akt Solamargine inhibits proliferation of prostate tumor cells and enhances docetaxel sensitivity via Akt signaling inhibition (Ge et al. 2022)
LIFR/PDPK1/Akt/GCN5 LIFR induces Akt signaling and related molecular pathways in increasing progression of prostate tumor cells (Ding et al. 2022)
FBXO31/DUSP6/PI3K/Akt FBXO31 down-regulation in prostate cancer promotes DUSP6 expression to induce PI3K/Akt signaling in promoting tumor formation (Duan et al. 2021)
CMTM5/EGFR/PI3K/Akt CMTM5 inhibits PI3K/Akt signaling via EGFR down-regulation to decrease proliferation and colony formation in prostate tumor (Li et al. 2022a, b)
miRNA-130b/PI3K/Akt miRNA-130b as tumor-suppressor factor, suppresses PI3K/Akt signaling in reducing metastasis of prostate cancer cells (Jia et al. 2022)
- Inhibiting PI3K p110β prevents development of castration resistance in prostate cancer (Gao et al. 2022)
PLK4/PI3K/Akt Fraxetin inhibits PI3K/Akt signaling via PLK4 down-regulation to impair growth and metastasis of prostate tumor cells (Ma et al. 2022)
miRNA-192-5p/PI3K/CHOP BK002 as anti-cancer agent, promotes miRNA-192-5p expression to inhibit PI3K signaling, leading to CHOP overexpression and apoptosis induction in prostate tumor cells (Park et al. 2022)
KDM5A/miRNA-330-3p/PI3K/Akt KDM5A reduces miRNA-330-3p expression to induce PI3K/Akt signaling in increasing prostate cancer tumorigenesis (Mi et al. 2022)