Highly sensitive profiling of CD44+/CD24- breast cancer stem cells by combining global mRNA amplification and next generation sequencing: Evidence for a hyperactive PI3K pathway
Cancer Letters, 08/10/2012
Hardt O et al. – Besides overexpressing genes involved in maintenance of stemness, the CSCs showed higher levels of genes that drive the PI3K pathway, including EGFR, HB–EGF, PDGFRA/B, PDGF, MET, PIK3CA, PIK3R1 and PIK3R2. This suggests that, in CSCs of ERα–positive breast cancer, the PI3K pathway which is involved in endocrine resistance is hyperactive.



