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366) Notably, Akt exerts its anti-apoptotic effects through the phosphorylation of numerous substrates related with cell cycle, genome stability, and cancer development.

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PMID:24038446 DOI:10.1002/mc.22075

2015 Molecular carcinogenesis

* Phosphorylation of Smac by Akt promotes the caspase-3 activation during etoposide-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells.

- The Akt, family of serine/threonine protein kinases functions as key regulators of multiple aspects of cell behavior, such as survival, proliferation, migration, and carcinogenesis. Notably, Akt exerts its anti-apoptotic effects through the phosphorylation of numerous substrates related with cell cycle, genome stability, and cancer development. In this report, nevertheless, we focused our view on the novel role of Akt which involves in a pro-apoptotic action by phosphorylating second mitochondria derived activator of caspases (Smac) protein during etoposide-induced apoptotic processes. Our data reveals that Akt could bind to and phosphorylate Smac at serine residue 67, which enhances the ability of Smac to interact with the cytosolic X-chromosome linked IAP (XIAP) protein. The cellular interaction of wild-type Smac with XIAP was enhanced with similar activation kinetics of Akt activity, while this interaction was markedly attenuated in cells expressing the phosphorylation-defective mutant S67A-Smac during etoposide-induced apoptosis. Moreover, we provide the evidence indicating that the phosphorylation of Smac at ser-67 markedly upregulates the caspase-3 activity by promoting the interaction of Smac with XIAP. Taken together, we propose that the phosphorylation of Smac by Akt might be a novel mechanism that involves in amplification of caspase cascade pathway during etoposide-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells.

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--- WordNet output for cancer --- =>【病名】がん, 悪性腫瘍(しゅよう), がん腫, 社会悪, 癌 Overview of noun cancer The noun cancer has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (15) cancer, malignant neoplastic disease -- (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream) 2. Cancer, Crab -- ((astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer) 3. Cancer -- (a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini) 4. Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab -- (the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22) 5. Cancer, genus Cancer -- (type genus of the family Cancridae) --- WordNet end ---