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SCIENCE SIGNALING
Volume 4, Issue 182, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2001465
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- NIH [RO1 HL-77788, HL-83423]
- American Heart Association
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Signaling through the kinase Akt regulates many biological functions. Akt is activated during growth factor stimulation through a process that requires binding of Akt to phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3), which promotes membrane localization and phosphorylation of Akt by the upstream kinase PDK1 (phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1). We show that Akt and PDK1 are acetylated at lysine residues in their pleckstrin homology domains, which mediate PIP3 binding. Acetylation blocked binding of Akt and PDK1 to PIP3, thereby preventing membrane localization and phosphorylation of Akt. Deacetylation by SIRT1 enhanced binding of Akt and PDK1 to PIP3 and promoted their activation. Mice injected with cells expressing a mutant that mimicked a constitutively acetylated form of Akt developed smaller tumors than those injected with cells expressing wild-type Akt. Furthermore, impaired Akt activation in the hearts of SIRT1-deficient mice was associated with reduced cardiac hypertrophy in response to physical exercise and angiotensin II. These findings uncover a key posttranslational modification of Akt that is important for its oncogenic and hypertrophic activities.
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