Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Rab35-regulated lipid turnover by myotubularins represses mTORC1 activity and controls myelin growth

  • Linda Sawade,
  • Federica Grandi,
  • Marianna Mignanelli,
  • Genaro Patiño-López,
  • Kerstin Klinkert,
  • Francina Langa-Vives,
  • Roberta Di Guardo,
  • Arnaud Echard,
  • Alessandra Bolino,
  • Volker Haucke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16696-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) is an inherited peripheral neuropathy. Here, the authors show that Rab35 forms a complex with genes implicated in CMT, MTMR13 and MTMR2, which regulates myelin growth by controlling mTORC1 signaling through lipid turnover.