PMID- 26176550 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160603 LR - 20211203 IS - 1557-8666 (Electronic) IS - 1066-5277 (Print) IS - 1066-5277 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 9 DP - 2015 Sep TI - Defining the Domain Arrangement of the Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex Component Rictor Protein. PG - 876-86 LID - 10.1089/cmb.2015.0103 [doi] AB - Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes play a pivotal role in the cell. Raptor and Rictor proteins interact with mTOR to form two distinct complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. While the domain structure of Raptor is known, current bioinformatics tools failed to classify the domains in Rictor. Here we focus on identifying specific domains in Rictor by searching for conserved regions. We scanned the pdb structural database and constructed three protein domain datasets. Next we carried out multiple pairwise sequence alignments of the proteins in the domain dataset. By analyzing the z-scores of Rictor sequence similarity to protein sequences in the dataset, we assigned the structural and functional domains of Rictor. We found that, like Raptor, Rictor also has HEAT and WD40 domains, which could be the common motif binding to mTORC. Rictor may also have pleckstrin homology domains, which mediate cellular localization and transmit signals to downstream targets, as well as a domain that is homologous to 50S protein L17 and human 39S protein L17. This putative ribosome binding domain could mediate mTORC2-ribosome interaction. FAU - Zhou, Ping AU - Zhou P AD - 1 Research Center of Basic Medical Sciences and Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University , Tianjin, China . FAU - Zhang, Ning AU - Zhang N AD - 1 Research Center of Basic Medical Sciences and Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University , Tianjin, China . FAU - Nussinov, Ruth AU - Nussinov R AD - 2 Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute , Frederick, Maryland. AD - 3 Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv, Israel . FAU - Ma, Buyong AU - Ma B AD - 2 Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute , Frederick, Maryland. LA - eng GR - Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150715 PL - United States TA - J Comput Biol JT - Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology JID - 9433358 RN - 0 (Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing) RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (Multiprotein Complexes) RN - 0 (RICTOR protein, human) RN - 0 (RPTOR protein, human) RN - 0 (Rapamycin-Insensitive Companion of mTOR Protein) RN - 0 (Regulatory-Associated Protein of mTOR) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 2) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Carrier Proteins/*metabolism MH - Computational Biology/methods MH - Conserved Sequence/genetics MH - Humans MH - Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 MH - Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 2 MH - Multiprotein Complexes/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding/genetics MH - Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs/genetics MH - Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics MH - Rapamycin-Insensitive Companion of mTOR Protein MH - Regulatory-Associated Protein of mTOR MH - Ribosomes MH - Sequence Alignment/methods MH - Signal Transduction/genetics MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism PMC - PMC4575542 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Raptor OT - Rictor OT - mTOR OT - protein domain OT - protein-protein interactions EDAT- 2015/07/16 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/04 06:00 PMCR- 2016/09/01 CRDT- 2015/07/16 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/07/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/04 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1089/cmb.2015.0103 [pii] AID - 10.1089/cmb.2015.0103 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Comput Biol. 2015 Sep;22(9):876-86. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2015.0103. Epub 2015 Jul 15.