Epilepsy in the mTORopathies: opportunities for precision medicine

PB Moloney, GL Cavalleri, N Delanty - Brain communications, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The mechanistic target of rapamycin signalling pathway serves as a ubiquitous regulator of
cell metabolism, growth, proliferation and survival. The main cellular activity of the …

Translation deregulation in human disease

S Tahmasebi, A Khoutorsky, MB Mathews… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in sequencing and high-throughput techniques have provided an unprecedented
opportunity to interrogate human diseases on a genome-wide scale. The list of disease …

KICSTOR recruits GATOR1 to the lysosome and is necessary for nutrients to regulate mTORC1

RL Wolfson, L Chantranupong, GA Wyant, X Gu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a central regulator of cell
growth that responds to diverse environmental signals and is deregulated in many human …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-enriched RagB isoforms regulate the dynamics of mTORC1 activity through GATOR1 inhibition

G Figlia, S Müller, AM Hagenston, S Kleber… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) senses nutrient availability to
appropriately regulate cellular anabolism and catabolism. During nutrient restriction …

GATOR opathies: The role of amino acid regulatory gene mutations in epilepsy and cortical malformations

PH Iffland, V Carson, A Bordey, PB Crino - Epilepsia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway has been implicated in a growing
number of malformations of cortical development (MCD) associated with intractable …

Reanalysis of exome sequencing data of intellectual disability samples: yields and benefits

M Al‐Nabhani, S Al‐Rashdi, F Al‐Murshedi… - Clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, with the advancement in next generation sequencing (NGS) along with the
improvement of bioinformatics tools, whole exome sequencing (WES) has become the most …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosomal regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids in mammalian cells

Y Yao, E Jones, K Inoki - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a master regulator of cell
growth in eukaryotic cells. The active mTORC1 promotes cellular anabolic processes …

[HTML][HTML] Ragopathies and the rising influence of RagGTPases on human diseases

I Sambri, M Ferniani, A Ballabio - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
RagGTPases (Rags) play an essential role in the regulation of cell metabolism by controlling
the activities of both mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) and …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale neuroanatomical study uncovers 198 gene associations in mouse brain morphogenesis

SC Collins, A Mikhaleva, K Vrcelj, VE Vancollie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Brain morphogenesis is an important process contributing to higher-order cognition,
however our knowledge about its biological basis is largely incomplete. Here we analyze …

Models of KPTN-related disorder implicate mTOR signalling in cognitive and overgrowth phenotypes

MO Levitin, LE Rawlins, G Sanchez-Andrade… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
KPTN-related disorder is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with germline variants
in KPTN (previously known as kaptin), a component of the mTOR regulatory complex …