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. 2021 Nov 24;6:400. doi: 10.1038/s41392-021-00788-w

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The activation process of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. PI3K, composed of one catalytic (p110) domain and one regulatory (p85), can be activated by G-protein coupled receptor, RTK, IGF-R, and B-cell receptor. Activated PI3K facilitates the conversion of PIP2 to PIP3. PIP3 activates PDK1, and then PDK1 phosphorylates AKT at Thr308. AKT can be also phosphorylated, and activated by PDK2 at Ser473. Activated AKT can regulate mangy cellular biological functions by interacting with numerous downstream signaling molecules, such as p21, p27, TGFβ, ataxin-1, GABA receptors, Bad, NF-κB, and mTOR. Image created with BioRender (https://biorender.com/)