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"Overexpression of constitutively activated Akt or disruption of TSC1 and TSC2 complex by small interfering RNA or gene knockout only partially restored curcumin mediated inhibition of mTOR and downstream signaling, indicating that they are not the primary effectors of curcumin mediated inhibition of Akt and mTOR signaling."
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"The TSC-1/TSC-2 protein complex (Plank et al., 1998; van Slegtenhorst et al., 1998) negatively regulates the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which is triggered by growth factors as well as nutrients and regulates protein synthesis, autophagy, transcription cell growth, cell proliferation, cell motility (Hay and Sonenberg, 2004; Sarbassov et al., 2005)."
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"Most TSC patients present with mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 genes, which encode proteins that form the TSC1-TSC2 complex that serves to antagonize the signaling pathway downstream of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) by promoting the activation of the small GTPase Rheb and thereby inhibiting cellular growth and proliferation."
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"This activation of PI3K results in a cascade of phosphorylation events, resulting in the activation of Akt, which in turn inhibits the TSC1 and TSC2 complex, which negatively regulates mTOR by acting as a GTPase activating protein toward Ras homolog enriched in brain (Rheb), a direct and positive regulator of mTOR."