Cytoplasmic-nuclear shuttling of FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein is involved in rapamycin-sensitive signaling and translation initiation.

Translation initiation is one of the key events regulated in response to mitogenic stimulation and nutrient availability, tightly coupled to mammalian cell cycle progression and growth. FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also named mTOR or RAFT1), a member of the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM)-related kinase family, governs a rapamycin-sensitive membrane-to-cytoplasm signaling cascade that modulates translation initiation via p70 S6 kinase (p70(s6k)) and eIF-4E binding protein 1 (4E-BP1). Our studies reported here reveal a surprising regulatory mechanism of this signaling, which involves cytoplasmic-nuclear shuttling of FRAP. By using leptomycin B (LMB), a specific inhibitor of nuclear export receptor Crm1, we show that FRAP is a cytoplasmic-nuclear shuttling protein. Inhibition of FRAP nuclear export by LMB coincides with diminished p70(s6k) activation and 4E-BP1 phosphorylation. Further investigation by altering FRAP's nuclear shuttling activity with exogenous nuclear import and export signals has yielded results that are consistent with a direct link between nuclear shuttling of FRAP and mitogenic stimulation of p70(s6k) activation and 4E-BP1 phosphorylation. Furthermore, by using a reporter system, we provide evidence suggesting that nuclear shuttling of FRAP regulates mitogen-stimulated rapamycin-sensitive translation initiation. These findings uncover a function for the nucleus in the direct regulation of the protein synthesis machinery via extracellular signals.

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