Review Article

Akt: A Double-Edged Sword in Cell Proliferation and Genome Stability

Table 1

Akt inhibitors currently in clinical trials.

CompoundDescriptionPhaseTumor

MK-2206Allosteric kinase inhibitorIMetastatic solid tumors, non-small-cell lung cancer, advanced solid tumors, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, neoplasms malignant, kidney cancer, prostate cancer, brain and central nervous system tumors, small intestine cancer
IIOvarian cancer, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, colorectal neoplasms, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer, recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma, head and neck cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, extrahepatic bile duct cancer, gallbladder cancer, liver cancer

PerifosineLipid-based allosteric kinase inhibitorIPediatric solid tumors, multiple myeloma, solid tumors, colon cancer, renal cancer, ovarian cancer, neoplasms, brain and central nervous system tumors, leukemia, lymphoma
IIMalignant gliomas, CNS, brain cancer, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, lymphomas, colon cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, multiple myeloma, chondrosarcomas, alveolar soft part sarcomas, kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, leukemia, lymphoma, brain and central nervous system tumors, melanoma (skin), endometrial cancer, sarcoma, prostate cancer, head and neck cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer
IIIMultiple myeloma, colorectal cancer

GSK-2141795ATP competitive inhibitorIOvarian cancer, solid tumors, and lymphoma

GSK-2110183ATP competitive inhibitorIMultiple myeloma, hematologic malignancies
IILangerhans cell histiocytosis, hematologic malignancies

RX-0201interfering RNAIIMetastatic pancreatic cancer