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  2. Quantitative Proteomics Implicates Rictor/mTORC2 in Cell Adhesion

Quantitative Proteomics Implicates Rictor/mTORC2 in Cell Adhesion

  • J Proteome Res. 2018 Oct 5;17(10):3360-3369. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00218.
Hao Wang 1 Xianfeng Shao 2 Qian He 3 Chunqing Wang 1 Linhuan Xia 1 Dan Yue 4 Guoxuan Qin 5 Chenxi Jia 6 Ruibing Chen 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences , Tianjin Medical University , Tianjin 300070 , P.R. China.
  • 2 Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital , Eye Institute & School of Optometry and Ophthalmology , Tianjin , 300384 , P.R. China.
  • 3 Tianjin Medical University General Hospital , Tianjin 300052 , P.R. China.
  • 4 School of Medical Laboratory , Tianjin Medical University , Tianjin 300070 , China.
  • 5 School of Microelectronics , Tianjin University , Tianjin 300072 , P.R. China.
  • 6 National Center for Protein Sciences-Beijing , State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine , Beijing 102206 , P.R. China.
Abstract

The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 2 (mTORC2) plays critical roles in various biological processes. To better understand the functions of mTORC2 and the underlying molecular mechanisms, we established a stable cell line with reduced Rictor, a specific component in mTORC2, and investigated the quantitative changes of the cellular proteome. As a result, we observed that 101 proteins were down-regulated and 50 proteins were up-regulated in Rictor knockdown cells. A protein-protein interaction network regulated by Rictor/mTORC2 was established, showing that Rictor/mTORC2 was involved in various cellular processes. Intriguingly, gene ontology analysis indicated that the proteome regulated by Rictor/mTORC2 was significantly involved with cell adhesion. Rictor knockdown affected the expressions of multiple cell adhesion associated molecules, e.g. Integrin α-5 (ITGA5), transforming growth factor beta-1-induced transcript 1 protein (TGFB1I1), lysyl oxidase homologue 2 (LOXL2), etc. Further study suggested that Rictor/mTORC2 may regulate cell adhesion and invasion by modulating the expressions of these cell adhesion molecules through Akt. Taken together, this study maps the proteome regulated by Rictor/mTORC2 and reveals its role in promoting renal Cancer cell invasion through modulating cell adhesion and migration.

Keywords

Akt; Rictor; TMT labeling; cell adhesion; cell migration; gene expression; mTORC2; mass spectrometry; quantitative proteomics; renal cancer.

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