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The Protein Complex Ragulator is the Substrate-specific Scaffold for mTORC1 to Regulate Transcription Factor EB

ABSTRACT: Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling pathway is activated by nutrition sufficiency signals and extracellular growth signals. mTORC1 acts the hub that integrates these inputs to orchestrate number of cellular responses such as translation, nucleotide synthesis, lipid synthesis, and lysosome biogenesis. However, the scaffold protein which specifically regulates any single downstream signaling molecule has not been identified to date. Here we show the heteropentamer protein complex Ragulator is critically required to regulate nuclear translocation of transcription factor EB (TFEB). We established a unique RAW264.7 clone that lacks Ragulator but maintained total mTORC1 activity. The clone showed a markedly enhanced nuclear translocation of TFEB even in nutrition-sufficient state, despite the full mTORC1 activity. As a cellular phenotype, the number of lysosomes were increased by 10 times in the Ragulator-deficient clone. These findings suggest that mTORC1 essentially requires the scaffold Ragulator to regulate the subcellular location of TFEB. Our finding implicates that mTORC1 has other scaffold proteins that regulate downstream molecules specifically.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE171357 | GEO | 2021/08/08

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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