TORCH

TOR and Cellular Homeostasis

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Switzerland [CH]
 Totale costo 1˙991˙686 €
 EC contributo 1˙991˙686 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2013-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-CG
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-04-01   -   2019-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE

 Organization address address: Rue du General Dufour 24
city: GENEVE
postcode: 1211

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Alex
Cognome: Waehry
Email: send email
Telefono: 41223797560
Fax: 41223791180

CH (GENEVE) hostInstitution 1˙991˙686.00
2    UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE

 Organization address address: Rue du General Dufour 24
city: GENEVE
postcode: 1211

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Robbie Joseph
Cognome: Loewith
Email: send email
Telefono: +41 22 379 6116
Fax: +41 22 379 6868

CH (GENEVE) hostInstitution 1˙991˙686.00

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cell    complexes    cellular    feedback    rapamycin    torc    signalling    loops    homeostatic    homeostasis    tor    networks   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Target Of Rapamycin (TOR) proteins are ser/thr kinases conserved in Eukarya. They nucleate two distinct multiprotein complexes, named TORC1 and TORC2, which regulate many, widely varying, aspects of cell and organism physiology. TOR inhibitors, such as rapamycin and derivatives, are used clinically to treat cancer, cardio-vasculature disease and to prevent organ rejection.

We recently reported that both TORC1/2 are wired in feedback loops, where their downstream cellular effectors are at the same time upstream regulators. It is this feedback loop that ultimately mediates the intrinsic role of TORC1/2 in cellular homeostasis: TORC1/2 detects deviations from a steady-state condition and by means of these feedback loops returns the cell to its homeostatic situation. We propose to systematically identify the TORC1/2 homeostatic signalling loops. Subsequent characterization will focus on the signalling networks controlling intermediary metabolism. Our ultimate goal is to comprehensively unravel the TORC1/2-dependent metabolic networks composed of regulatory feedback loops which will reveal the fundamental role of the TOR Complexes as molecular devices to achieve cellular homeostasis.'

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