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Nature Cell Biology 9, 1199–1207 (1 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/ncb1641

Akt phosphorylation regulates the tumour-suppressor merlin through ubiquitination and degradation

Xiaoling Tang , Sung-Wuk Jang , Xuerong Wang , Zhixue Liu , Scott M. Bahr , Shi-Yong Sun , Daniel Brat , David H. Gutmann & Keqiang Ye

The neurofibromatosis-2 (NF2) tumour-suppressor gene encodes an intracellular membrane-associated protein, called merlin, whose growth-suppressive function is dependent on its ability to form interactions through its intramolecular amino-terminal domain (NTD) and carboxy-terminal domain (CTD). Merlin phosphorylation plays a critical part in dictating merlin NTD/CTD interactions as well as in controlling binding to its effector proteins.