Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

AKT3-mediated IWS1 phosphorylation promotes the proliferation of EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas through cell cycle-regulated U2AF2 RNA splicing

  • Georgios I. Laliotis,
  • Evangelia Chavdoula,
  • Maria D. Paraskevopoulou,
  • Abdul Kaba,
  • Alessandro La Ferlita,
  • Satishkumar Singh,
  • Vollter Anastas,
  • Keith A. Nair,
  • Arturo Orlacchio,
  • Vasiliki Taraslia,
  • Ioannis Vlachos,
  • Marina Capece,
  • Artemis Hatzigeorgiou,
  • Dario Palmieri,
  • Christos Tsatsanis,
  • Salvatore Alaimo,
  • Lalit Sehgal,
  • David P. Carbone,
  • Vincenzo Coppola,
  • Philip N. Tsichlis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24795-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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IWS1 regulates multiple steps in RNA metabolism, including RNA elongation and alternative RNA splicing. Here the authors show that AKT3 phosphorylates IWS1, which alters U2AF2 RNA splicing and promotes growth of lung adenocarcinomas via a Sororin/ERK-dependent pathway.