Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Limited survival and impaired hepatic fasting metabolism in mice with constitutive Rag GTPase signaling

  • Celia de la Calle Arregui,
  • Ana Belén Plata-Gómez,
  • Nerea Deleyto-Seldas,
  • Fernando García,
  • Ana Ortega-Molina,
  • Julio Abril-Garrido,
  • Elena Rodriguez,
  • Ivan Nemazanyy,
  • Laura Tribouillard,
  • Alba de Martino,
  • Eduardo Caleiras,
  • Ramón Campos-Olivas,
  • Francisca Mulero,
  • Mathieu Laplante,
  • Javier Muñoz,
  • Mario Pende,
  • Guadalupe Sabio,
  • David M. Sabatini,
  • Alejo Efeyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23857-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) integrates nutrient and hormonal signals to control metabolism. Here the authors investigate the effects of constitutive nutrient signaling through genetic activation of RagA in adult mice and show that constitutive nutrient signaling regulates the response to feeding-fasting cycles and does not drive liver cancer.