Activation of Cyclic AMP Signaling Leads to Different Pathway Alterations in Lesions of the Adrenal Cortex Caused by Germline PRKAR1A Defects versus Those due to Somatic GNAS Mutations

Abstract

WGEP analysis revealed that not all cAMP activation is the same: adrenal lesions harboring PRKAR1A or GNAS mutations share the downstream activation of certain oncogenic signals (such as MAPK and some cell cycle genes) but differ substantially in their effects on others.