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SUBMITTER: Sato S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC27109 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sato S S Fujita N N Tsuruo T T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000901 20
Serine/threonine kinase Akt/PKB is a downstream effector molecule of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and is thought to mediate many biological actions toward anti-apoptotic responses. We found that Akt formed a complex with a 90-kDa heat-shock protein (Hsp90) in vivo. By constructing deletion mutants, we identified that amino acid residues 229-309 of Akt were involved in the binding to Hsp90 and amino acid residues 327-340 of Hsp90beta were involved in the binding to Akt. Inhibition of Akt-Hsp90 bindi ...[more]