Casma Therapeutics Announces new Nature Publication – “Structure of the lysosomal mTORC1–TFEB–Rag–Ragulator megacomplex”

January 30, 2023

In their recent Nature paper, Casma Founders Jim Hurley and Andrea Ballabio describe the cryogenic-EM structure of an MTORC1 megacomplex. A molecular description of this massive complex is helping us understand the regulation of the TFEB transcription factor and dependence of TFEB phosphorylation on FLCN and the RagC GDP state.

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