AKT1 and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: The zeta-associated protein of 70-kD (ZAP-70) kinase, which is a Syk family kinase, is expressed in a subset of B-CLL patients (Rosenwald et al., 2001) and has been implicated in the elevated PI3K activity since its introduction in B cells that do not express ZAP-70 led to increased Akt phosphorylation (Gobessi et al., 2007).