Glutamine stimulates mTORC1 independent of the cell content of essential amino acids

Amino Acids

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2561-2567

  Chiu, Martina ^a,b   Tardito, Saverio ^a   Barilli, Amelia ^a   Bianchi, Massimiliano G ^a   Dall'Asta, Valeria ^a   Bussolati, Ovidio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential amino acids; Glutamine; Leucine; MTOR; S6K1

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CONTENT; CELL LEVEL; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTAMINE; HELA CELLS; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84872687720     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-012-1312-0     Document Type: Article

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