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 …

Clinical delivery of circular RNA: lessons learned from RNA drug development

TL Young, KC Wang, AJ Varley, B Li - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Circular RNAs (circRNA) represent a distinct class of covalently closed-loop RNA molecules,
which play diverse roles in regulating biological processes and disease states. The …

AMPK and TOR: the yin and yang of cellular nutrient sensing and growth control

A González, MN Hall, SC Lin, DG Hardie - Cell metabolism, 2020‏ - cell.com
The AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) and TOR (target-of-rapamycin) pathways are
interlinked, opposing signaling pathways involved in sensing availability of nutrients and …

[HTML][HTML] Increased demand for NAD+ relative to ATP drives aerobic glycolysis

A Luengo, Z Li, DY Gui, LB Sullivan, M Zagorulya… - Molecular cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Aerobic glycolysis, or preferential fermentation of glucose-derived pyruvate to lactate despite
available oxygen, is associated with proliferation across many organisms and conditions. To …

SCENITH: a flow cytometry-based method to functionally profile energy metabolism with single-cell resolution

RJ Argüello, AJ Combes, R Char, JP Gigan, AI Baaziz… - Cell metabolism, 2020‏ - cell.com
Energetic metabolism reprogramming is critical for cancer and immune responses. Current
methods to functionally profile the global metabolic capacities and dependencies of cells are …

[HTML][HTML] Trem2 expression in microglia is required to maintain normal neuronal bioenergetics during development

E Tagliatti, G Desiato, S Mancinelli, M Bizzotto… - Immunity, 2024‏ - cell.com
Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (Trem2) is a myeloid cell-specific gene
expressed in brain microglia, with variants that are associated with neurodegenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Neurons release serine to support mRNA translation in pancreatic cancer

RS Banh, DE Biancur, K Yamamoto, ASW Sohn… - Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumors have a nutrient-poor, desmoplastic, and
highly innervated tumor microenvironment. Although neurons can release stimulatory factors …

The maintenance of oocytes in the mammalian ovary involves extreme protein longevity

K Harasimov, RL Gorry, LM Welp, SM Penir… - Nature Cell …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Women are born with all of their oocytes. The oocyte proteome must be maintained with
minimal damage throughout the woman's reproductive life, and hence for decades. Here we …

Quantifying intracellular rates of glycolytic and oxidative ATP production and consumption using extracellular flux measurements

SA Mookerjee, AA Gerencser, DG Nicholls… - Journal of Biological …, 2017‏ - jbc.org
Partitioning of ATP generation between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation is central
to cellular bioenergetics but cumbersome to measure. We describe here how rates of ATP …

The mTOR–autophagy axis and the control of metabolism

N Deleyto-Seldas, A Efeyan - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), master regulator of cellular metabolism, exists
in two distinct complexes: mTOR complex 1 and mTOR complex 2 (mTORC1 and 2) …