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Target of rapamycin in yeast, TOR2, is an essential phosphatidylinositol kinase homolog required for G1 progression

Kunz, J. and Henriquez, R. and Schneider, U. and Deuter-Reinhard, M. and Movva, N. R. and Hall, M. N.. (1993) Target of rapamycin in yeast, TOR2, is an essential phosphatidylinositol kinase homolog required for G1 progression. Cell, 73 (3). pp. 585-596.

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Abstract

The yeast TOR2 gene encodes an essential 282 kd phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase homolog. TOR2 is related to the catalytic subunit of bovine PI 3-kinase and to yeast VPS34, a vacuolar sorting protein also shown to have PI 3-kinase activity. The immunosuppressant rapamycin most likely acts by inhibiting PI kinase activity because TOR2 mutations confer resistance to rapamycin and because a TOR1 TOR2 double disruption (TOR1 is a nonessential TOR2 homolog) confers G1 arrest, as does rapamycin. Our results further suggest that 3-phosphorylated phosphoinositides, whose physiological significance has not been determined, are an important signal in cell cycle activation. In yeast, this signal may act in a signal transduction pathway similar to the interleukin-2 signal transduction pathway in T cells.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Growth & Development > Biochemistry (Hall)
UniBasel Contributors:Hall, Michael N.
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Cell Press
ISSN:0092-8674
e-ISSN:1097-4172
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:22 Mar 2012 13:19

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