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FIGURE 3  The metabolic signal cascade of PI3-kinase–PKB–mTOR serves to integrate physiological inputs from growth factors (insulin and IGF-1), the energy status of the cell (AMP concentrations), and intracellular leucine (leu) concentrations to regulate translation initiation at eIF4E, eIF4G, and rpS6.