Tag: mTOR

Coibamide A, an Cytotoxic Depsipeptide, Induces Autophagosome Accumulation

Autophagy is the key structure of macroautophagy. Macroautophagy is an intracellular degradation system of cytoplasmic contents. Meanwhile, autophagy is a new double-membrane vesicle formed during autophagy, which can phagocytose a variety of intracellular substances. It transports this autophagic material to the lysosome for subsequent degradation. The lysosomal hydrolase degrades...

Vistusertib (AZD2014) is an ATP Competitive mTOR Inhibitor

mTOR is an atypical serine threonine kinase involved in regulating major cellular functions, such as nutrients sensing, growth, and proliferation. mTOR is part of the multiprotein complexes mTORC1 and mTORC2. mTORC1 and mTORC2 have been shown to play critical yet functionally distinct roles in the regulation of cellular processes....

Sapanisertib is an Orally Active and ATP-Dependent mTOR Inhibitor

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease. It often relapses after standard chemotherapy or proves refractory to available treatments. Therefore, It needs novel therapies for AML. In AML, many signaling pathways are abnormally activated and lead to uncontrolled proliferation/survival of immature myeloid progenitors. The 50% to 80% of...

Rapamycin is a Specific mTOR Inhibitor

mTOR (mammalian target of Rapamycin) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the mTOR gene. mTOR is a serine/threonine protein kinase that regulates cell growth, cell proliferation, cell motility, cell survival, protein synthesis, and transcription. In addition, mTOR links with other proteins and serves as a core...

PF-06843195 is a Selective PI3Kα Inhibitor

Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) can catalyze the synthesis of the phosphatidylinositol (PI) second messengers, including PI(3)P (PIP), PI(3,4)P2 (PIP2), and PI(3,4,5)P3 (PIP3). The PI3K lipid kinase family contains three classes based on sequence homology. Class, I PI3Ks are further divided into class IA (PI3Kα, PI3Kβ, and PI3Kδ) and class IB...