Version: 8.0.0Date: Tue Jan 28 2025
Gene
akt-2
- Species
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Symbol
- akt-2
- Name
- AKT kinase family 2
- Synonyms
- CELE_F28H6.1
- F28H6.1
- Biotype
- protein coding gene
- Automated Description
- Enables phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate binding activity and protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Involved in determination of adult lifespan; insulin receptor signaling pathway; and regulation of synaptic assembly at neuromuscular junction. Is expressed in several structures, including excretory canal; neurons; pharynx; rectum; and vulva. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including breast cancer (multiple); gastrointestinal system cancer (multiple); glucose metabolism disease (multiple); pancreatic cancer (multiple); and reproductive organ cancer (multiple). Orthologous to human AKT1 (AKT serine/threonine kinase 1); AKT2 (AKT serine/threonine kinase 2); and AKT3 (AKT serine/threonine kinase 3).
- WB Description
- akt-2 encodes a homolog of the serine/threonine kinase Akt/PKB, AKT-2, that is required for progression through the dauer stage of development and for the negative regulation of adult lifespan; inactivation of akt-2 causes animals to arrest constitutively at the dauer stage, while having an increased life span; widely expressed, AKT-2 is activated by the phospholipid products of phosphoinositide 3-kinase AGE-1/PI3K and by PDK-1, a homolog of vertebrate 3-phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 (PDK-1) Normal akt-2 (and akt-1) activity is required for excess pdk-1 activity to suppress the dauer-arrest phenotype of age-1, indicating that the 3-phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 homolog PDK-1 transduces signals from AGE-1 to AKT-2 (and AKT-1); conversely, the akt-2 loss-of-function phenotype is suppressed by daf-16 null mutations, indicating that the Fork head transcription factor DAF-16 is downstream of AKT-2 (and AKT-1), and that AKT-1 and AKT-2 act primarily to antagonize DAF-16.
- Cross References
- Additional Information
- Literature
Orthology
- Gene tree
- PANTHER:PTHR24356
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Phenotypes
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Alleles and Variants
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Transgenic Alleles
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Sequence Feature Viewer
- Genome location
- ChrX:14147700...14152070 + (4.37 kb)
- Assembly version
- WBcel235
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Expression
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