PMID- 16837165 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070205 LR - 20211203 IS - 0898-6568 (Print) IS - 0898-6568 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 12 DP - 2006 Dec TI - PLD2 forms a functional complex with mTOR/raptor to transduce mitogenic signals. PG - 2283-91 AB - Mammalian target-of-rapamycin (mTOR), which is a master controller of cell growth, senses a mitogenic signal in part through the lipid second messenger phosphatidic acid (PA), generated by phospholipase D (PLD). To understand further which isozymes of PLD are involved in this process, we compared the effect of PLD isozymes on mTOR activation. We found that PLD2 has an essential role in mitogen-induced mTOR activation as the siRNA-mediated knockdown of PLD2, not of PLD1, profoundly reduced the phosphorylations of S6K1 and 4EBP1, well-known mTOR effectors. Furthermore, exogenous PA-induced mTOR activation was abrogated by PLD2 knockdown, but not by PLD1 knockdown. This abrogation was found to be the result of complex formation between PLD2 and mTOR/raptor. PLD2 possesses a TOS-like motif (Phe-Glu-Val-Gln-Val, a.a. 265-269), through which it interacts with raptor independently of the other TOS motif-containing proteins, S6K1 and 4EBP1. PLD2-dependent mTOR activation appears to require PLD2 binding to mTOR/raptor with lipase activity, since lipase-inactive PLD2 cannot trigger mTOR activation despite its ability to interact with mTOR/raptor. Abrogation of mitogen-dependent mTOR activation by PLD2 knockdown was rescued only by wild type PLD2, but not by raptor binding-deficient and lipase-inactive PLD2. Our results demonstrate the importance of localized PA generation for the mitogen-induced activation of mTOR, which is achieved by a specific interaction between PLD2 and mTOR/raptor. FAU - Ha, Sang Hoon AU - Ha SH AD - Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbook 790-784, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kim, Do-Hyung AU - Kim DH FAU - Kim, Il-Shin AU - Kim IS FAU - Kim, Jung Hwan AU - Kim JH FAU - Lee, Mi Nam AU - Lee MN FAU - Lee, Hyun Ju AU - Lee HJ FAU - Kim, Jong Heon AU - Kim JH FAU - Jang, Sung Key AU - Jang SK FAU - Suh, Pann-Ghill AU - Suh PG FAU - Ryu, Sung Ho AU - Ryu SH LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20060603 PL - England TA - Cell Signal JT - Cellular signalling JID - 8904683 RN - 0 (Mitogens) RN - EC 2.7.- (Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (MTOR protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 3.1.4.- (phospholipase D2) RN - EC 3.1.4.4 (Phospholipase D) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Binding Sites/genetics MH - Blotting, Western MH - COS Cells MH - Cell Line MH - Chlorocebus aethiops MH - Genetic Vectors/genetics MH - Humans MH - Immunoprecipitation MH - Mitogens/*metabolism MH - Mutation/genetics MH - Phospholipase D/genetics/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Protein Kinases/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Signal Transduction MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases MH - Transfection EDAT- 2006/07/14 09:00 MHDA- 2007/02/06 09:00 CRDT- 2006/07/14 09:00 PHST- 2006/04/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2006/05/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2006/05/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/07/14 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/02/06 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/07/14 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0898-6568(06)00115-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cellsig.2006.05.021 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Signal. 2006 Dec;18(12):2283-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2006.05.021. Epub 2006 Jun 3.