Modeling human disease in yeastrecreating the PI3K-PTEN-Akt signaling pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  1. Julia María Coronas Serna 1
  2. Marta Valenti 1
  3. Elba del Val 1
  4. Teresa Fernández Acero 1
  5. Isabel Rodríguez Escudero 1
  6. Janire Mingo 2
  7. Sandra Luna 2
  8. Leire Torices 2
  9. Rafael Pulido 2
  10. María Molina Martín 1
  11. Victor Jiménez Cid 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biocruces Bizkaia
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    Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biocruces Bizkaia

    Barakaldo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0061s4v88

Revista:
International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology

ISSN: 1618-1905

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 23

Número: 1

Páginas: 75-87

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology

Resumen

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a model organism that has been thoroughly exploited to understand the universal mechanisms that govern signaling pathways. Due to its ease of manipulation, humanized yeast models that successfully reproduce the function of human genes permit the development of highly efficient genetic approaches for molecular studies. Of special interest are those pathways related to human disease that are conserved from yeast to mammals. However, it is also possible to engineer yeast cells to implement functions that are naturally absent in fungi. Along the years, we have reconstructed several aspects of the mammalian phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway in S. cerevisiae. Here, we briefly review the use of S. cerevisiae as a tool to study human oncogenes and tumor suppressors, and we present an overview of the models applied to the study of the PI3K oncoproteins, the tumor suppressor PTEN, and the Akt protein kinase. We discuss the application of these models to study the basic functional properties of these signaling proteins, the functional assessment of their clinically relevant variants, and the design of feasible platforms for drug discovery.

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