The TORC1 effector kinase Npr1 fine tunes the inherent activity of the Mep2 ammonium transport protein

Mélanie Boeckstaens, Elisa Llinares, Pascale Van Vooren and Anna Maria Marini ()
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Mélanie Boeckstaens: Biology of Membrane Transport, IBMM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet 12
Elisa Llinares: Biology of Membrane Transport, IBMM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet 12
Pascale Van Vooren: Biology of Membrane Transport, IBMM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet 12
Anna Maria Marini: Biology of Membrane Transport, IBMM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet 12

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract The TORC1 complex controls cell growth upon integrating nutritional signals including amino-acid availability. TORC1 notably adapts the plasma membrane protein content by regulating arrestin-mediated endocytosis of amino-acid transporters. Here we demonstrate that TORC1 further fine tunes the inherent activity of the ammonium transport protein, Mep2, a yeast homologue of mammalian Rhesus factors, independently of arrestin-mediated endocytosis. The TORC1 effector kinase Npr1 and the upstream TORC1 regulator Npr2 control Mep2 transport activity by phospho-silencing a carboxy-terminal autoinhibitory domain. Under poor nitrogen supply, Npr1 enables Mep2 S457 phosphorylation and thus ammonium transport activity. Supplementation of the preferred nitrogen source glutamine leads to Mep2 inactivation and instant S457 dephosphorylation via plasma membrane Psr1 and Psr2 redundant phosphatases. This study underscores that TORC1 also adjusts nutrient permeability to regulate cell growth in a fast and flexible response to environmental perturbation, establishing a hierarchy in the transporters to be degraded, inactivated or maintained active at the plasma membrane.

Date: 2014
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