title: Modulation of Akt kinase activity by binding to Hsp90.
abstract: Serine/threonine kinase Akt/PKB is a downstream effector molecule of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and is thought to mediate many biological actions toward anti-apoptotic responses. We found that Akt formed a complex with a 90-kDa heat-shock protein (Hsp90) in vivo. By constructing deletion mutants, we identified that amino acid residues 229-309 of Akt were involved in the binding to Hsp90 and amino acid residues 327-340 of Hsp90beta were involved in the binding to Akt. Inhibition of Akt-Hsp90 binding led to the dephosphorylation and inactivation of Akt, which increased sensitivity of the cells to apoptosis-inducing stimulus. The dephosphorylation of Akt was caused by an increase in protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A)-mediated dephosphorylation and not by a decrease in 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1-mediated phosphorylation. These results indicate that Hsp90 plays an important role in maintaining Akt kinase activity by preventing PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuruo
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases