The AKT/mTOR signaling pathway inhibition has been reported to induce autophagy in human fetal neural stem cells fNSCs (Liang et al., 2016) and human lung cancer cells H460 cells (Fu et al., 2009) as well as the mouse mammary epithelial cells HC11 (Hou et al., 2020). Here, AKT1 is linked to lung cancer.