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Madhanagopal Anandapadamanaban¹, Glenn R Masson¹, Olga Perisic¹

¹MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|October 12, 2019

まとめ

ラグGTPasesは,mTORC1をリソソームに結合させ,アミノ酸に基づく細胞成長を調節する. 彼らの核酸状態は,この結合を制御し,RagA_GTP/RagC_GDPのような特定の状態は,mTORC1の採用と活性化に不可欠である.

科学分野:

分子生物学
セルラー・シグナル
構造生物学

背景:

Rag GTPasesは細胞の成長と増殖の重要なレギュレータである.
アミノ酸の可用性は,Rag GTPasesによるmTORC1キナーゼ活性を決定する.
ラグヘテロジメの核酸結合状態は,mTORC1の相互作用にとって極めて重要です.

研究の目的:

Rag GTPaseとmTORC1複合体の形成の構造的基礎を解明する.
Rag GTPasesによるmTORC1のリゾソームへの徴募のメカニズムを理解する.
ラグ媒介によるmTORC1活性化における核酸状態の役割を調査する.

主な方法:

クリオ電子顕微鏡 (cryo-EM) で RagA/RagC-mTORC1複合体の構造を決定する.
RagA/RagCの構造と動態を分析するためのX線結晶学.
GTP結合メカニズムを調査するための運動研究.

主要な成果:

mTORC1のRAPTORサブユニットに結合したRagA/RagCの詳細な構造
mTORC1結合に対するRagA_GTP/RagC_GDPヌクレオチド状態の特異性についての説明.
ヘテロジマー鎖のメカニズムが明らかにされ,変異の調節と影響が説明されました.
ラグ結合はmTORC1をリソソーム標的化で活性化させるが,形状の変化ではない.

結論:

Rag GTPaseのヌクレオチド状態は,mTORC1の募集と活性化を決定する.
RagA_GTP/RagC_GDP状態は,特に mTORC1 を RAPTOR 経由で結合する.
アミノ酸への反応としてmTORC1の活性化の主なメカニズムは,Rag GTPasesによるライソソーム標的化である.

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