Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

mTOR and S6K1 drive polycystic kidney by the control of Afadin-dependent oriented cell division

  • Martina Bonucci,
  • Nicolas Kuperwasser,
  • Serena Barbe,
  • Vonda Koka,
  • Delphine de Villeneuve,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Nishit Srivastava,
  • Xiaoying Jia,
  • Matthew P. Stokes,
  • Frank Bienaimé,
  • Virginie Verkarre,
  • Jean Baptiste Lopez,
  • Fanny Jaulin,
  • Marco Pontoglio,
  • Fabiola Terzi,
  • Benedicte Delaval,
  • Matthieu Piel,
  • Mario Pende

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16978-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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mTOR activation is known to generate polycystic kidneys, which show both increased proliferation and loss of oriented cell division (OCD). Here, Bonucci et al. show that loss of OCD is linked to S6K1 activation through its direct target Afadin and is separable from hyperproliferation.