AKT1 and cancer: RGS16 was of interest to our study for two reasons: 1) RGS16 regulates GPCRs, which are common targets for deregulation in cancer and 2) RGS16 has been linked to regulating the MAPK/RAS, PI3K/AKT, RhoA, and SDF-1/CxCR4 oncogene pathways [15, 17-19, 63].