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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 284, Issue 22, Pages 14693-14697Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C109.002907
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- National Institutes of Health [DK52753, DK28312]
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mTORC1 contains multiple proteins and plays a central role in cell growth and metabolism. Raptor (regulatory-associated protein of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)), a constitutively binding protein of mTORC1, is essential for mTORC1 activity and critical for the regulation of mTORC1 activity in response to insulin signaling and nutrient and energy sufficiency. Herein we demonstrate that mTOR phosphorylates raptor in vitro and in vivo. The phosphorylated residues were identified by using phosphopeptide mapping and mutagenesis. The phosphorylation of raptor is stimulated by insulin and inhibited by rapamycin. Importantly, the site-directed mutation of raptor at one phosphorylation site, Ser(863), reduced mTORC1 activity both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, the Ser863 mutant prevented small GTP-binding protein Rheb from enhancing the phosphorylation of S6 kinase (S6K) in cells. Therefore, our findings indicate that mTOR-mediated raptor phosphorylation plays an important role on activation of mTORC1.
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