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. 2017 Aug 29;7:9842. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10555-z

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Constitutively Active AKT Abolishes the Synergistic Effect of Treatment with Tamoxifen and PI3K inhibitor. (A) AKT expression level was measured by Western blot analysis in MCF-7 cells without transfection (parental), cells transfected with empty vector (MCF-7/mock), and cells transfected with myristoylated AKT (MCF-7/AKT). (B) Comparison of p-GSK3b, pp-70S6K, and p-4EBP1 expression levels between MCF-7/mock and MCF-7/AKT cells treated with control (CTL), tamoxifen (T, 8 µM), alpelisib (BYL, 5 µM), or tamoxifen and alpelisib (T + BYL, 8 µM + 5 µM) at 3, 8, and 24 hours. Fa plots of combination indices for treatment with T + BYL in MCF-7/mock (C) or MCF-7/AKT (D) cells and treatment with T + BKM in MCF-7/mock (E) or MCF-7/AKT (F) cells.