AKT1 and neoplasm: Several oncogenes including MYC, hypoxia inducible factor 1 (HIF1), phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K), protein kinase B (PBK or Akt) and the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), have been known to be involved in the regulation of tumor metabolic reprogramming [5, 20, 92].