Al-Awqati Qais
J Clin Invest. 2015 Jun;125(6):2267-70. doi: 10.1172/JCI81508. Epub 2015 May 18.
The kidney, like other organs, grows in constant proportion to the rest of the body. When one kidney is removed, the remaining one hypertrophies. In a comprehensive series of studies, Chen et al. show that growth during maturation is mediated by the mTORC1 signaling pathway, which is induced by EGF-like peptides, and requires PI3K, PDK, AKT, mTORC2, and activation of mTORC1 through the combined effects of TSC and RHEB as part of a multiprotein complex localized on lysosomes. However, compensatory growth is mediated by amino acids, which act on mTORC1 independently of the previous pathway, and requires a class III PI3K (VPS34) that is known to be involved in vesicle trafficking to the lysosomes.
肾脏与其他器官一样,其生长与身体其他部分保持恒定比例。当一侧肾脏被切除时,剩余的肾脏会肥大。在一系列全面的研究中,Chen等人表明,成熟过程中的生长由mTORC1信号通路介导,该通路由表皮生长因子样肽诱导,并且需要磷脂酰肌醇-3激酶(PI3K)、丙酮酸脱氢酶激酶(PDK)、蛋白激酶B(AKT)、哺乳动物雷帕霉素靶蛋白复合物2(mTORC2),以及通过结节性硬化复合物(TSC)和小G蛋白RHEB的联合作用激活mTORC1,这些是位于溶酶体上的多蛋白复合物的一部分。然而,代偿性生长由氨基酸介导,氨基酸独立于先前的通路作用于mTORC1,并且需要一种已知参与囊泡运输至溶酶体的III类PI3K(VPS34)。