Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2

A Szwed, E Kim, E Jacinto - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cells metabolize nutrients for biosynthetic and bioenergetic needs to fuel growth and
proliferation. The uptake of nutrients from the environment and their intracellular metabolism …

mTOR at the nexus of nutrition, growth, ageing and disease

GY Liu, DM Sabatini - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
The mTOR pathway integrates a diverse set of environmental cues, such as growth factor
signals and nutritional status, to direct eukaryotic cell growth. Over the past two and a half …

[HTML][HTML] The global phosphorylation landscape of SARS-CoV-2 infection

M Bouhaddou, D Memon, B Meyer, KM White… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected millions and killed …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma

EJ Sun, M Wankell, P Palamuthusingam, C McFarlane… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite advances in the treatment of cancers through surgical procedures and new
pharmaceuticals, the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains challenging as …

[HTML][HTML] An innovative NRF2 nano-modulator induces lung cancer ferroptosis and elicits an immunostimulatory tumor microenvironment

CH Hsieh, HC Hsieh, FH Shih, PW Wang, LX Yang… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Simultaneous targeting of both the tumor microenvironment and cancer cells by a single
nanomedicine has not been reported to date. Here, we report the dual properties of zero …

[HTML][HTML] Defining the underlying defect in insulin action in type 2 diabetes

TM Batista, N Haider, CR Kahn - Diabetologia, 2021 - Springer
Insulin resistance is one of the earliest defects in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Over
the past 50 years, elucidation of the insulin signalling network has provided important …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic regulation of macrophage activation

O Kolliniati, E Ieronymaki, E Vergadi… - Journal of Innate …, 2022 - karger.com
Macrophages, the central mediators of innate immune responses, being in the first-line of
defense, they have to readily respond to pathogenic or tissue damage signals to initiate the …

Molecular logic of mTORC1 signalling as a metabolic rheostat

AJ Valvezan, BD Manning - Nature metabolism, 2019 - nature.com
The protein kinase complex mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) serves
as a key conduit between growth signals and the metabolic processes underlying cell …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting mTOR and metabolism in cancer: lessons and innovations

C Magaway, E Kim, E Jacinto - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells support their growth and proliferation by reprogramming their metabolism in
order to gain access to nutrients. Despite the heterogeneity in genetic mutations that lead to …

Glycogen synthesis and beyond, a comprehensive review of GSK3 as a key regulator of metabolic pathways and a therapeutic target for treating metabolic diseases

L Wang, J Li, L Di - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Glycogen synthase kinase‐3 (GSK3) is a highly evolutionarily conserved
serine/threonine protein kinase first identified as an enzyme that regulates glycogen …