A portrait of AKT kinases: human cancer and animal models depict a family with strong individualities

A Bellacosa, JR Testa, R Moore… - Cancer biology & therapy, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… signaling properties and highlight the specificities of AKT kinases that have emerged from
the study of human cancer and animal models. While AKT kinases are an attractive target for …

Perturbations of the AKT signaling pathway in human cancer

DA Altomare, JR Testa - Oncogene, 2005 - nature.com
AKT/PKB (protein kinase B) kinases mediate signaling pathways downstream of activated
tyrosine kinases and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. AKT kinases regulate diverse cellular …

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinaseAKT pathway in human cancer

I Vivanco, CL Sawyers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2002 - nature.com
… , which is also known as protein kinase B (PKB; reviewed in Refs 22,23). Our focus … AKT
function, with an emphasis on its links to human cancer. AKT encodes a serine/threonine kinase

Deregulation of the Akt pathway in human cancer

E Tokunaga, E Oki, A Egashira… - Current cancer drug …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
… Abstract: Akt (protein kinase B) is a serine/threonine kinase which is a central regulator of
widely divergent cellular processes including proliferation, differentiation, migration, survival …

Activation of AKT kinases in cancer: implications for therapeutic targeting

A Bellacosa, CC Kumar, A Di Cristofano… - Advances in cancer …, 2005 - Elsevier
AKT kinases emerging from recent studies of human cancers and rodent models, as well as
the status of current efforts to specifically target individual AKT family … While AKT kinases are …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the PI3K-Akt pathway in human cancer: rationale and promise

J Luo, BD Manning, LC Cantley - Cancer cell, 2003 - cell.com
… PIP3 in turn contributes to the recruitment and activation of a wide range of downstream
targets, including the serine-threonine protein kinase Akt (also known as protein kinase B). The …

[HTML][HTML] Posttranslational regulation of Akt in human cancer

CH Chan, U Jo, A Kohrman, AH Rezaeian, PC Chou… - Cell & bioscience, 2014 - Springer
Akt expression level or activity is a causative factor for the onset or progression of a variety of
human cancers … with and recruits both Akt and phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1…

[HTML][HTML] AKT-independent signaling downstream of oncogenic PIK3CA mutations in human cancer

KM Vasudevan, DA Barbie, MA Davies, R Rabinovsky… - Cancer cell, 2009 - cell.com
… Downstream activation of the AKT kinase is regarded as the dominant tumor-promoting …
shows that AKT signaling is markedly diminished in many cancer cell lines and human breast …

Attacking the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway for targeted therapeutic treatment in human cancer

L Yu, J Wei, P Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
… This is largely due to that PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling is … inhibitors targeting major kinase
components of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR … Targeting a single kinase component within this signaling …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway in human cancers induced by infection with human papillomaviruses

L Zhang, J Wu, MT Ling, L Zhao, KN Zhao - Molecular cancer, 2015 - Springer
Akt is a serine/threonine-specific protein kinase, which plays a key role in multiple cellular
processes including apoptosis and cell proliferation. Phosphorylation and activation of …