Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

PI3K/Akt signaling transduction pathway, erythropoiesis and glycolysis in hypoxia

Y Xie, X Shi, K Sheng, G Han, W Li… - Molecular …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
The purpose of this review is to summarize the research progress of PI3K/Akt signaling
pathway in erythropoiesis and glycolysis. Phosphatidylinositol‑4, 5‑bisphosphate 3‑kinase …

Research progress of mTOR inhibitors

Y Chen, X Zhou - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a highly conserved Serine/Threonine (Ser/Thr)
protein kinase, which belongs to phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-related kinase (PIKK) protein …

The upstream pathway of mTOR-mediated autophagy in liver diseases

H Wang, Y Liu, D Wang, Y Xu, R Dong, Y Yang, Q Lv… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy, originally found in liver experiments, is a cellular process that degrades
damaged organelle or protein aggregation. This process frees cells from various stress …

Huntingtin functions as a scaffold for selective macroautophagy

YN Rui, Z Xu, B Patel, Z Chen, D Chen, A Tito… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Selective macroautophagy is an important protective mechanism against diverse cellular
stresses. In contrast to the well-characterized starvation-induced autophagy, the regulation …

Target of rapamycin (TOR) in nutrient signaling and growth control

R Loewith, MN Hall - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract TOR (T arget O f R apamycin) is a highly conserved protein kinase that is important
in both fundamental and clinical biology. In fundamental biology, TOR is a nutrient-sensitive …

All roads lead to PP 2A: exploiting the therapeutic potential of this phosphatase

J Sangodkar, CC Farrington, K McClinch… - The FEBS …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Protein phosphatase 2A (PP 2A) is a serine/threonine phosphatase involved in the
regulation of many cellular processes. A confirmed tumor suppressor protein, PP 2A is …

Huntington disease

GP Bates, R Dorsey, JF Gusella, MR Hayden… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Huntington disease is devastating to patients and their families—with autosomal dominant
inheritance, onset typically in the prime of adult life, progressive course, and a combination …

Upstream and downstream of mTOR

N Hay, N Sonenberg - Genes & development, 2004 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The evolutionarily conserved checkpoint protein kinase, TOR (target of rapamycin), has
emerged as a major effector of cell growth and proliferation via the regulation of protein …

mTOR interacts with raptor to form a nutrient-sensitive complex that signals to the cell growth machinery

DH Kim, DD Sarbassov, SM Ali, JE King, RR Latek… - Cell, 2002 - cell.com
Abstract mTOR/RAFT1/FRAP is the target of the immunosuppressive drug rapamycin and
the central component of a nutrient-and hormone-sensitive signaling pathway that regulates …