Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Structural basis for the assembly of the Ragulator-Rag GTPase complex

  • Ryo Yonehara,
  • Shigeyuki Nada,
  • Tomokazu Nakai,
  • Masahiro Nakai,
  • Ayaka Kitamura,
  • Akira Ogawa,
  • Hirokazu Nakatsumi,
  • Keiichi I. Nakayama,
  • Songling Li,
  • Daron M. Standley,
  • Eiki Yamashita,
  • Atsushi Nakagawa,
  • Masato Okada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01762-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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mTORC1 activity is controlled through Rag GTPases, which are anchored to the lysosome through the Ragulator. Here, the authors give molecular insights into Ragulator-Rag GTPase assembly and present the crystal structures of the Ragulator alone and in complex with the RagA-C roadblock domains.