ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (9): 1565-1571.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.09.001

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Regulation of GCN2 and mTORC1 Signaling Pathways on Amino Acid Balance in Animal Body

SHEN Jun-hua, ZHU Wei-yun*   

  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Nutrition and Animal Health, Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • Received:2017-03-14 Online:2017-09-23 Published:2017-09-23

Abstract:

Amino acid (AA) balance is of importance to the health and growth of mammals, and GCN2 and mTORC1 signaling pathways play crucial roles in maintaining AA balance in body. GCN2 signaling pathway can effectively sense intracellular AA starvation, mTORC1 signaling pathway can respond to the change of extracellular AA level. Combining with the recent studies regarding GCN2 and mTORC1, this review summarized characteristics of the GCN2 and mTORC1 signaling pathways and the related response mechanism under the condition of AA starvation and sufficiency, e.g. protein synthesis, refusing to feed, an increase of AA transporter, AA synthase expressions and autophagy initiation, etc.. Understanding the regulatory mechanism by which cellular AA balance is kept under different AA nutrition status contributes to the nutritional regulating of nitrogen for animals, thus improving animal gut health.

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