AKT1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Fang et al. showed that miR-7 arrests hepatocellular carcinoma cells in the G0/G1 phase and negatively regulates the PI3K/AKT pathway by targeting AKT, mammalian target of rapamycin, and ribosomal protein S6 kinase, which are key signaling molecules involved in the promotion of liver cancer cell growth and metastasis [55].