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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2009 Feb 19;196(1):65–80. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2009.01972.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Nutrients and growth factors converge to regulate the mTORC1 complex in mammalian cells. Inherited mutations in LKB1, TSC1. TSC2, and PTEN all result in hamartoma syndromes in humans indicating that hyperactivation of mTORC1 is a common biochemical mechanism underlying these genetic disorders.