Akt2 causes TGFβ-induced deptor downregulation facilitating mTOR to drive podocyte hypertrophy and matrix protein expression

• Falguni Das,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Nandini Ghosh-Choudhury,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Doug Yoon Lee,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Yves Gorin †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Balakuntalam S. Kasinath,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, VA Research, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Goutam Ghosh Choudhury

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: choudhuryg@uthscsa.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, VA Research, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0101-5821

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