Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Tor forms a dimer through an N-terminal helical solenoid with a complex topology

  • Domagoj Baretić,
  • Alex Berndt,
  • Yohei Ohashi,
  • Christopher M. Johnson,
  • Roger L. Williams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The target of rapamycin (Tor) is a Ser/Thr protein kinase that regulates a wide range of anabolic and catabolic processes. Here the authors describe a sub-nanometer cryo-EM structure of a yeast Tor–Lst8 complex and propose an overall topology that differs from that previously suggested for mTORC1.