Table of Contents

TOR: The First Ten Years.- The Role of Phosphatases in TOR Signaling in Yeast.- Yeast TOR Signaling: A Mechanism for Metabolic Regulation.- Nutrient Signaling Through TOR Kinases Controls Gene Expression and Cellular Differentiation in Fungi.- Autophagy in Yeast: A TOR-Mediated Response to Nutrient Starvation.- The Fission Yeast TOR Proteins and the Rapamycin Response: an Unexpected Tale.- Plant Growth and the TOR Pathway.- TOR Action in Mammalian Cells and in Caenorhabditis elegans.- Genetic Analysis of TOR Signaling in Drosophila.- Interplay Between Growth Factor and Nutrient Signaling: Lessons from Drosophila TOR.- mTOR Signaling to Translation.- Modulation of the Protein Kinase Activity of mTOR.- Role of mTOR Signaling in the Control of Translation Initiation and Elongation by Nutrients.- Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of mTOR Signaling.- Raptor and mTOR: Subunits of a Nutrient-Sensitive Complex.- Kinase Activities Associated with mTOR.- mTOR: A Mediator of Intracellular Homeostasis.- mTOR as a Positive Regulator of Tumor Cell Responses to Hypoxia.- Retroviral Oncogenes and TOR.- mTOR as a Target for Cancer Therapy.

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