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Yasushl Fujio
Researcher at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Publications - 1
Citations - 2572
Yasushl Fujio is an academic researcher from St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phosphorylation & Akt/PKB signaling pathway. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 2491 citations.
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Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt.
David Fulton,Jean-Philippe Gratton,Timothy J. McCabe,Jason Fontana,Yasushl Fujio,Kenneth Walsh,Thomas F. Franke,Andreas Papapetropoulos,William C. Sessa +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the serine/threonine protein kinase Akt (protein kinase B) can directly phosphorylate eNOS on serine 1179 and activate the enzyme, leading to NO production, whereas mutant eN OS (S1179A) is resistant to phosphorylation and activation by Akt.