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SUBMITTER: Lee MY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4156707 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Monica Y MY Luciano Amelia K AK Ackah Eric E Rodriguez-Vita Juan J Bancroft Tara A TA Eichmann Anne A Simons Michael M Kyriakides Themis R TR Morales-Ruiz Manuel M Sessa William C WC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140818 35
The PI3K/Akt pathway is necessary for several key endothelial cell (EC) functions, including cell growth, migration, survival, and vascular tone. However, existing literature supports the idea that Akt can be either pro- or antiangiogenic, possibly due to compensation by multiple isoforms in the EC when a single isoform is deleted. Thus, biochemical, genetic, and proteomic studies were conducted to examine isoform-substrate specificity for Akt1 vs. Akt2. In vitro, Akt1 preferentially phosphoryla ...[more]