The target of rapamycin (TOR) proteins

protein synthesis in neurons. Rapamycin and TOR Rapamycin is a lipophilic macrolide, isolated from a strain of Streptomyces hygroscopicus indigenous to Easter Island (known as Rapa Nui to the inhabitants; ref. 12). The intracellular rapamycin receptor in all eukaryotes is a small, ubiquitous protein termed FKBP12 (FK506-binding protein, molecular ................
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