AKT1

V-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1
PDB rendering based on 1h10.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 1H10​, 1UNP​, 1UNQ​, 1UNR​, 2UVM​, 2UZR​, 2UZS​, 3CQU​, 3CQW​, 3MV5​, 3MVH​, 3O96​, 3OCB​, 3OW4​, 3QKK​, 3QKL​, 3QKM​, 4EJN​, 4EKK​, 4EKL​, 4GV1​
Identifiers
Symbols	AKT1 ; AKT; CWS6; PKB; PKB-ALPHA; PRKBA; RAC; RAC-ALPHA
External IDs	OMIM: 164730 MGI: 87986 HomoloGene: 3785 ChEMBL: 4282 GeneCards: AKT1 Gene
EC number	2.7.11.1
Gene ontology Molecular function • protein kinase activity • protein serine/threonine kinase activity • protein serine/threonine/tyrosine kinase activity • protein kinase C binding • protein binding • ATP binding • phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate binding • kinase activity • enzyme binding • nitric-oxide synthase regulator activity • identical protein binding • phosphatidylinositol-3,4-bisphosphate binding • protein phosphatase 2A binding • 14-3-3 protein binding Cellular component • nucleus • nucleoplasm • cytoplasm • mitochondrion • spindle • cytosol • plasma membrane • cell-cell junction • microtubule cytoskeleton • ciliary basal body • protein complex Biological process • protein import into nucleus, translocation • osteoblast differentiation • maternal placenta development • positive regulation of protein phosphorylation • positive regulation of endothelial cell proliferation • glycogen biosynthetic process • regulation of glycogen biosynthetic process • glucose metabolic process • transcription initiation from RNA polymerase II promoter • translation • regulation of translation • cellular protein modification process • protein phosphorylation • negative regulation of protein kinase activity • nitric oxide biosynthetic process • apoptotic process • activation-induced cell death of T cells • inflammatory response • response to oxidative stress • signal transduction • epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathway • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway • germ cell development • aging • blood coagulation • cell proliferation • insulin receptor signaling pathway • fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling pathway • apoptotic mitochondrial changes • response to heat • gene expression • negative regulation of autophagy • negative regulation of plasma membrane long-chain fatty acid transport • positive regulation of sodium ion transport • positive regulation of glucose metabolic process • negative regulation of endopeptidase activity • regulation of neuron projection development • programmed cell death • glucose transport • phosphorylation • protein ubiquitination • peptidyl-serine phosphorylation • cell projection organization • cell differentiation • protein catabolic process • platelet activation • hyaluronan metabolic process • positive regulation of cell growth • regulation of cell migration • endocrine pancreas development • T cell costimulation • regulation of myelination • positive regulation of cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity involved in G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle • lipopolysaccharide-mediated signaling pathway • negative regulation of fatty acid beta-oxidation • response to food • positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process • peripheral nervous system myelin maintenance • positive regulation of proteasomal ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process • cellular response to insulin stimulus • positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation • response to fluid shear stress • intracellular signal transduction • cellular response to vascular endothelial growth factor stimulus • Fc-epsilon receptor signaling pathway • glucose homeostasis • negative regulation of apoptotic process • negative regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process • protein kinase B signaling • positive regulation of blood vessel endothelial cell migration • small molecule metabolic process • innate immune response • positive regulation of nitric oxide biosynthetic process • positive regulation of fat cell differentiation • positive regulation of glycogen biosynthetic process • negative regulation of cell size • negative regulation of proteolysis • positive regulation of vasoconstriction • positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • nitric oxide metabolic process • positive regulation of glucose import • negative regulation of JNK cascade • protein autophosphorylation • positive regulation of lipid biosynthetic process • insulin-like growth factor receptor signaling pathway • vascular endothelial growth factor receptor signaling pathway • neurotrophin TRK receptor signaling pathway • phosphatidylinositol-mediated signaling • regulation of nitric-oxide synthase activity • positive regulation of nitric-oxide synthase activity • positive regulation of sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity • striated muscle cell differentiation • response to growth hormone • mammary gland epithelial cell differentiation • glycogen cell differentiation involved in embryonic placenta development • labyrinthine layer blood vessel development • membrane organization • response to UV-A • cellular response to mechanical stimulus • cellular response to epidermal growth factor stimulus • cellular response to prostaglandin E stimulus • cellular response to organic cyclic compound • cellular response to hypoxia • positive regulation of establishment of protein localization to plasma membrane • negative regulation of release of cytochrome c from mitochondria • cellular response to granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor stimulus • intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway • execution phase of apoptosis • positive regulation of protein insertion into mitochondrial membrane involved in apoptotic signaling pathway • negative regulation of neuron death • regulation of cell cycle checkpoint • negative regulation of oxidative stress-induced intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway • response to insulin-like growth factor stimulus • negative regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway in absence of ligand Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	207	11651
Ensembl	ENSG00000142208	ENSMUSG00000001729
UniProt	P31749	P31750
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001014431	NM_001165894
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001014431	NP_001159366
Location (UCSC)	Chr 14: 104.77 – 104.8 Mb	Chr 12: 112.65 – 112.67 Mb
PubMed search

RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the AKT1 gene. This enzyme belongs to the AKT subfamily of serine/threonine kinases that contain SH2 (Src homology 2-like) domains.^[1] It is commonly referred to as PKB, or by both names as "Akt/PKB".

Function

The serine-threonine protein kinase AKT1 is catalytically inactive in serum-starved primary and immortalized fibroblasts. AKT1 and the related AKT2 are activated by platelet-derived growth factor. The activation is rapid and specific, and it is abrogated by mutations in the pleckstrin homology domain of AKT1. It was shown that the activation occurs through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. In the developing nervous system AKT is a critical mediator of growth factor-induced neuronal survival. Survival factors can suppress apoptosis in a transcription-independent manner by activating the serine/threonine kinase AKT1, which then phosphorylates and inactivates components of the apoptotic machinery. Mice lacking Akt1 display a 25% reduction in body mass, indicating that Akt1 is critical for transmitting growth-promoting signals, most likely via the IGF1 receptor. Mice lacking Akt1 are also resistant to cancer: They experience considerable delay in tumor growth initiated by the large T antigen or the Neu oncogene. A single-nucleotide polymorphism in this gene causes Proteus syndrome.^[2][3]

History

AKT (now also called AKT1) was originally identified as the oncogene in the transforming retrovirus, AKT8.^[4] AKT8 was isolated from a spontaneous thymoma cell line derived from AKR mice by cocultivation with an indicator mink cell line. The transforming cellular sequences, v-akt, were cloned from a transformed mink cell clone and these sequences were used to identify Akt1 and Akt2 in a human clone library. AKT8 was isolated by Stephen Staal in the laboratory of Wallace P. Rowe; he subsequently cloned v-akt and human AKT1 and AKT2 while on staff at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.^[5]

In 2011, a mutation in AKT1 was strongly associated with Proteus syndrome, the disease that probably affected the Elephant Man.^[6]

The name Akt stands for Ak strain transforming. The origins of the Akt name date back to 1928, where J. Furth performed experimental studies on mice that developed spontaneous thymic lymphomas. Mice from three different stocks were studied, and the stocks were designated A, R, and S. Stock A was noted to yield many cancers, and inbred families were subsequently designated by a second small letter (Aa, Ab, Ac, etc.), and thus came the Ak strain of mice. Further inbreeding was undertaken with Ak mice at the Rockefeller Institute in 1936, leading to the designation of the AKR mouse strain. In 1977, a transforming retrovirus was isolated from the AKR mouse. This virus was named Akt-8, the "t" representing its transforming capabilities.

Interactions

AKT1 has been shown to interact with:

• AKTIP,^[7]
• BRAF,^[8]
• BRCA1,^[9][10]
• C-Raf,^[11]
• CDKN1B,^[12]
• CHUK^[13][14]
• GAB2,^[15]
• HSP90AA1,^[16][17][18]
• ILK,^[19][20][21]
• KRT10,^[22]
• MAP2K4,^[23]
• MAP3K11,^[24]
• MAP3K8,^[25]
• MAPK14,^[26]
• MAPKAPK2,^[26]
• MARK2,^[27]
• MTCP1,^[28][29]
• MTOR,^[30][31][32]
• NPM1,^[33]
• NR4A1,^[34]
• NR3C4,^[35]
• PKN2,^[36]
• PRKCQ,^[37]
• PDPK1,^[19][20]
• PLXNA1,^[38]
• TCL1A,^[28][29][39]
• TRIB3,^[40]
• TSC1,^[41][42]
• TSC2,^[41][42] and
• YWHAZ.^[43]

References

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Further reading

• Hemmings BA (1997). "Akt signaling: linking membrane events to life and death decisions". Science 275 (5300): 628–30. doi:10.1126/science.275.5300.628. PMID 9019819.
• Vanhaesebroeck B, Alessi DR (2000). "The PI3K-PDK1 connection: more than just a road to PKB". Biochem. J. 346 (3): 561–76. doi:10.1042/0264-6021:3460561. PMC 1220886. PMID 10698680.
• Chan TO, Rittenhouse SE, Tsichlis PN (2000). "AKT/PKB and other D3 phosphoinositide-regulated kinases: kinase activation by phosphoinositide-dependent phosphorylation". Annu. Rev. Biochem. 68: 965–1014. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.68.1.965. PMID 10872470.
• Pekarsky Y, Hallas C, Croce CM (2001). "Molecular basis of mature T-cell leukemia". JAMA 286 (18): 2308–14. doi:10.1001/jama.286.18.2308. PMID 11710897.
• Dickson LM, Rhodes CJ (2004). "Pancreatic beta-cell growth and survival in the onset of type 2 diabetes: a role for protein kinase B in the Akt?". Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 287 (2): E192–8. doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00031.2004. PMID 15271644.
• Manning BD (2004). "Balancing Akt with S6K: implications for both metabolic diseases and tumorigenesis". J. Cell Biol. 167 (3): 399–403. doi:10.1083/jcb.200408161. PMC 2172491. PMID 15533996.
• Shinohara M, Chung YJ, Saji M, Ringel MD (2007). "AKT in thyroid tumorigenesis and progression". Endocrinology 148 (3): 942–7. doi:10.1210/en.2006-0937. PMID 16946008.

See also

• AKT - the AKT family of proteins
• AKT2 - the gene for the second member of the AKT family
• AKT3 - the gene for the third member of the AKT family
• Proteus Syndrome

External Links

• AKT1 Standards - Learn more about AKT1 Reference Controls