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. 2023 Nov 24;24:295. doi: 10.1186/s12931-023-02574-4

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Thioredoxin reactivating PTEN. PTEN is an antagonist of PIP3. PTEN is deactivated under oxidative stress, which triggers the PDK1 pathway. Thioredoxin is also dimerized during oxidative stress or can form a dimer with PTEN. However, extracellular thioredoxin has the ability to restore the redox equilibrium of the cell, thereby activating PTEN once more and inhibiting the pi3-apk pathway