Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

PTEN inhibits AMPK to control collective migration

  • Florent Peglion,
  • Lavinia Capuana,
  • Isabelle Perfettini,
  • Laurent Boucontet,
  • Ben Braithwaite,
  • Emma Colucci-Guyon,
  • Emie Quissac,
  • Karin Forsberg-Nilsson,
  • Flora Llense,
  • Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31842-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Pten is a tumour suppressor gene that is associated with highly invasive cancers such as glioblastoma. Here the authors show that PTEN loss results in increased migratory behaviour, which can be countered by targeting AMPK activity.