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. 2022 Nov 15;73(20):6987-6992.
doi: 10.1093/jxb/erac401.

Growing of the TOR world

Rossana Henriques  1   2 , Maria Juliana Calderan-Rodrigues  3 , José Luis Crespo  4 , Elena Baena-González  5 , Camila Caldana  3
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Growing of the TOR world

Rossana Henriques et al. J Exp Bot. .
No abstract available

Keywords: SnRK1; TORC1; autophagy; carbon partitioning; development; metabolism; microalgae; nutrients; phytohormones; plant growth; translation regulation.

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The green world of TOR: the main external and internal signals integrated by TORC1 and its antagonist SnRK1 complex regulate metabolic processes and developmental transitions in photosynthetic organisms. Starting at the top-left and moving clockwise around the outside of the figure: an ATP molecule; a thermometer representing temperature; the sun and moon representing light/dark cycles, and the circadian clock; nitrogen, amino acids, and nucleotides; sulfur; molecules of the hormones auxin, cytokinin, brassinosteroid, and abscisic acid; carbon, sugars representing sucrose, and a hexagon representing glucose; sugar starvation. These shaded and white spaces describe the biological processes integrated by the TORC1 signaling pathway. The outer circle shows the plant (Arabidopsis) developmental transitions controlled by TORC1/SnRK1. Starting at the top and moving clockwise: seeds; germinated seedlings; vegetative development; flowering transition; senescence. The next circle shows the algae (Chlamydomonas) cell cycle controlled by TORC1/SnRK1. Starting at the top and moving clockwise: a single cell; a growing cell; dividing cells; release of the daughter cells. The central part of the figure represents a cell and the metabolic processes regulated by TORC1/SnRK1. TORC1 is composed of TOR, Regulatory-Associated Protein of TOR 1 (RAPTOR), and Lethal with Sec13 protein 8 (LST8). The processes of respiration, transcription, translation, photosynthesis, and autophagy are highlighted inside the cell. Blocked lines indicate inhibition, and the dashed line implies a mutual inhibitory relationship that needs to be further characterized. Created with BioRender.com.
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