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Title Sestrin mediates detection of and adaptation to low-leucine diets in Drosophila
Creator Gu et al.
Author Xin Gu
Author Patrick Jouandin
Author Pranav V. Lalgudi
Author Rich Binari
Author Max L. Valenstein
Author Michael A. Reid
Author Annamarie E. Allen
Author Nolan Kamitaki
Author Jason W. Locasale
Author Norbert Perrimon
Author David M. Sabatini
Abstract Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) regulates cell growth and metabolism in response to multiple nutrients, including the essential amino acid leucine1. Recent work in cultured mammalian cells established the Sestrins as leucine-binding proteins that inhibit mTORC1 signalling during leucine deprivation2,3, but their role in the organismal response to dietary leucine remains elusive. Here we find that Sestrin-null flies (Sesn-/-) fail to inhibit mTORC1 or activate autophagy after acute leucine starvation and have impaired development and a shortened lifespan on a low-leucine diet. Knock-in flies expressing a leucine-binding-deficient Sestrin mutant (SesnL431E) have reduced, leucine-insensitive mTORC1 activity. Notably, we find that flies can discriminate between food with or without leucine, and preferentially feed and lay progeny on leucine-containing food. This preference depends on Sestrin and its capacity to bind leucine. Leucine regulates mTORC1 activity in glial cells, and knockdown of Sesn in these cells reduces the ability of flies to detect leucine-free food. Thus, nutrient sensing by mTORC1 is necessary for flies not only to adapt to, but also to detect, a diet deficient in an essential nutrient.
Publication Nature
Volume 608
Issue 7921
Pages 209-216
Date 2022-08
Journal Abbr Nature
Language eng
DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04960-2
ISSN 1476-4687
Library Catalog PubMed
Extra PMID: 35859173
Tags Adaptation, Physiological, Animal Feed, Animals, Autophagy, corresponding, Diet, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila Proteins, first, Food Preferences, Leucine, Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1, Mutant Proteins, Neuroglia, original, Sestrins, Signal Transduction, top
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