AKT1 and chlamydia trachomatis infectious disease: In agreement, several reports account for Akt phosphorylation after chlamydial infection, however, differences in phosphorylation dynamics could be due to different Chlamydia species or serovars, experimental conditions or host cell type (Verbeke et al., 2006; Rajalingam et al., 2008; Gurumurthy et al., 2010; Patel et al., 2014; Subbarayal et al., 2015).