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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 3258-3272Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02032-07
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- MRC [MC_U127088492, MC_U127015387] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U127015387, MC_U127088492] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [MC_U127088492, MC_U127015387] Funding Source: researchfish
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PDK1 activates a group of kinases, including. protein kinase B (PKB)/Akt, p70 ribosomal S6 kinase (S6K), and serum and glucocorticoid-induced protein kinase (SGK), that mediate many of the effects of insulin as well as other agonists. PDK1 interacts with phosphoinositides through a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain. To study the role of this interaction, we generated knock-in mice expressing a mutant of PDK1 incapable of binding phosphoinositides. The knock-in mice are significantly small, insulin resistant, and hyperinsulinemic. Activation of PKB is markedly reduced in knock-in mice as a result of lower phosphorylation of PKB at Thr308, the residue phosphorylated by PDK1. This results in the inhibition of the downstream mTOR complex 1 and S6K1 signaling pathways. In contrast, activation of SGK1 or p90 ribosomal S6 kinase or stimulation of S6K1 induced by feeding is unaffected by the PDK1 PH domain mutation. These observations establish the importance of the PDK1-phosphoinositide interaction in enabling PKB to be efficiently activated with an animal model. Our findings reveal how reduced activation of PKB isoforms impinges on downstream signaling pathways, causing diminution of size as well as insulin resistance.
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