A-674563 is a potent and selective Akt1 inhibitor with IC50 value of 14 nM. A-67453 also inhibited PKA and Cdk2 with IC50 value of 16 nM and 46 nM.

Akt, also known as protein kinase B, is a serine/threonine-specific protein kinase that plays a key role in multiple cellular processes such as glucose metabolism, apoptosis, cell proliferation, transcription and cell migration.

In MiaPaCa-2 cells treated with A-674563 for 48 hour, it slowed the tumor cell proliferation (EC50 = 0.4 μm). In STS cells, phosphorylation of GSK3 and MDM2 was prominently reduced by A-674563 treatment. [1] Akt inhibition-induced G2 cells cycle arrest and apoptosis were also observed in A563-treated STS cells. [2]

In scid mice carrying established PC-3 tumors, administration of A-674563 at 40 mg/kg per day for 21 days, combined with administration of paclitaxel at 15 mg/kg per day on days 20.24.28, increased the efficacy of paclitaxel compared with paclitaxel monotherapy. [1] A563 also significantly blocked HT1080 xenograft growth in nude mice. [2]

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