Estructura Crio-EM del complejo FLCN-FNIP2-Rag-regulador humano

Kuang Shen1, Kacper B Rogala2, Hui-Ting Chou3

  • 1Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 455 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, 01605, USA.

Cell
|November 10, 2019
PubMed
Resumen

El estudio revela la base estructural de cómo FLCN-FNIP2 activa el heterodímero Rag GTPase, un paso clave en la detección de nutrientes por la vía mTORC1. Este hallazgo aclara un mecanismo crítico de interacción GAP-GTPasa.