AKT1 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Another study has reported that brusatol (50) exerts anti-proliferative activity by inducing the mitochondrial apoptosis and cell cycle arrest against nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and significantly inhibits the growth of NPC CNE-1 xenografts with no overt toxicity through suppression of Akt/mTOR signaling pathway (Guo et al., 2020).