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Characterization of a 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase which phosphorylates and activates protein kinase Bα

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In this paper, a protein kinase that phosphorylates PKB α at Thr308 and increases its activity over 30-fold was found to play a key role in mediating the activation of PKB by insulin and growth factors.
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This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 1997-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2866 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase & Akt/PKB signaling pathway.

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Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism

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A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding

TL;DR: This assay is very reproducible and rapid with the dye binding process virtually complete in approximately 2 min with good color stability for 1 hr with little or no interference from cations such as sodium or potassium nor from carbohydrates such as sucrose.
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Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by insulin mediated by protein kinase B.

TL;DR: It is shown that agents which prevent the activation of both MAPKAP kinase-1 and p70S6k by insulin in vivo do not block the phosphorylation and inhibition of GSK3, and it is demonstrated that PKB is the product of the proto-oncogene protein kinase B (PKB, also known as Akt/RAC).

Mechanism of activation of protein kinase B by insulin and IGF-1. EMBO J 15 (23):6541-6551

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that activation of PKBalpha by insulin or insulin‐like growth factor‐1 (IGF‐1) results from phosphorylation of both Thr308 and Ser473, that phosphorylate of both residues is critical to generate a high level of P KBalpha activity and that the phosphorylated of Thr308 in vivo is not dependent on phosphorylations of Ser473 or vice versa.
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Mechanism of activation of protein kinase B by insulin and IGF-1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activation of PKBalpha was accompanied by its phosphorylation at Thr308 and Ser473 and, like activation, likeactivation was prevented by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin.
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