Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Quantitative phosphoproteomic analyses identify STK11IP as a lysosome-specific substrate of mTORC1 that regulates lysosomal acidification

  • Zhenzhen Zi,
  • Zhuzhen Zhang,
  • Qiang Feng,
  • Chiho Kim,
  • Xu-Dong Wang,
  • Philipp E. Scherer,
  • Jinming Gao,
  • Beth Levine,
  • Yonghao Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29461-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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mTORC1, central regulator of cell growth and autophagy suppressor, is activated on the lysosome surface, but its local role in lysosomal biology remains unclear. Here the authors show STK11IP is a substrate of mTORC1 that regulates lysosomal acidification through V-ATPase and represses autophagy.