Significance
Identifying mTORC1-regulated proteins through proteomic method is a feasible way to study the downstream functions of mTORC1. In this study, we identified many mTORC1-regulated proteins using proteomic analysis by overlapping two different high vs low/no mTORC1 activity comparisons, TSC2(-/-) vs WT MEFs and TSC2(-/-) with/without rapamycin treatment. We found the abundances of many enzymes in glycolysis pathway and several proteins involved in protein nuclear import were positively regulated by mTORC1. More importantly, we first discovered that mTORC1 positively regulated the importer protein KPNA2, which participated in glycolysis regulation downstream of mTORC1 in a HIF1α-independent manner, indicating that mTORC1 regulates glycolysis through multiple ways.
