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 …

Evolutionary conservation of the components in the TOR signaling pathways

H Tatebe, K Shiozaki - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Target of rapamycin (TOR) is an evolutionarily conserved protein kinase that controls
multiple cellular processes upon various intracellular and extracellular stimuli. Since its first …

Cell size control in yeast

JJ Turner, JC Ewald, JM Skotheim - Current biology, 2012 - cell.com
Cell size is an important adaptive trait that influences nearly all aspects of cellular
physiology. Despite extensive characterization of the cell-cycle regulatory network, the …

Interplays of AMPK and TOR in autophagy regulation in yeast

JP Alao, L Legon, A Dabrowska, AM Tricolici, J Kumar… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cells survey their environment and need to balance growth and anabolism with stress
programmes and catabolism towards maximum cellular bioenergetics economy and …

Evolution of the TOR pathway

TJP van Dam, FJT Zwartkruis, JL Bos… - Journal of Molecular …, 2011 - Springer
The TOR kinase is a major regulator of growth in eukaryotes. Many components of the TOR
pathway are implicated in cancer and metabolic diseases in humans. Analysis of the …

TOR and MAP kinase pathways synergistically regulate autophagy in response to nutrient depletion in fission yeast

C Corral-Ramos, R Barrios, J Ayté, E Hidalgo - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
General autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process in eukaryotes, by which
intracellular materials are transported into and degraded inside lysosomes or vacuoles, with …

The TOR signaling pathway in spatial and temporal control of cell size and growth

S Gonzalez, C Rallis - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cell size is amenable by genetic and environmental factors. The highly conserved nutrient-
responsive Target of Rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway regulates cellular metabolic …

Conserved and divergent mechanisms that control TORC1 in yeasts and mammals

Y Morozumi, K Shiozaki - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1), a serine/threonine-protein kinase complex highly
conserved among eukaryotes, coordinates cellular growth and metabolism with …

An evolutionary perspective of AMPK–TOR signaling in the three domains of life

V Roustan, A Jain, M Teige… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
AMPK and TOR protein kinases are the major control points of energy signaling in
eukaryotic cells and organisms. They form the core of a complex regulatory network to co …

TOR signaling in invertebrates

A Soulard, A Cohen, MN Hall - Current opinion in cell biology, 2009 - Elsevier
The Target of Rapamycin (TOR), a protein kinase, is the central node of a highly conserved
signaling network that regulates cell growth in response to nutrients, hormones, and …