Publications (most with links to downloadable PDFs)

2008
Sancak, Y., Peterson, T.R., Shaul, Y.D., Lindquist, R.A., Thoreen, C.C., Bar-Peled, L., and Sabatini, D.M. (2008) The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1. Science (Medline Link) (Science reprint service) (PDF)

Reiling, J.H. and Sabatini, D.M. (2008) Increased mTORC1 Signaling UPRegulates Stress. Molecular Cell 29: 533-535. (Medline Link) (PDF)

2007
Guertin, D.A. and Sabatini, D.M. (2007) Defining the role of mTOR in cancer. Cancer Cell 12: 9-22. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Sancak, Y., Thoreen, C.C., Peterson, T.R., Lindquist, R.A., Kang, S.A., Spooner, E., Carr, S.A., and Sabatini, D.M. (2007) PRAS40 Is an Insulin-Regulated Inhibitor of the mTORC1 Protein Kinase. Molecular Cell 25: 903-915. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

Moffat, J., Reling, J.H., Sabatini, D.M. (2007) Off-target effects associated with long dsRNAs in Drosophila RNAi screens. Trends Pharmacol Sci. (Medline Link)

Lamprecht, M.R., Sabatini, D.M., Carpenter, A.E. (2007) CellProfiler: free, versatile software for automated biological image analysis. Biotechniques 42:71-75. (Medline Link)

2006

Zeng, Z., Sarbassov, D.D., Samudio, I.J., Yee, K.W., Munsell, M.F., Jackson, C.E., Giles, F.J., Sabatini, D.M., Andreeff, M., Konopleva, M. (2006) Rapamycin derivatives reduce mTORC2 signaling and inhibit AKT activation in AML. Blood (Medline Link)

Guertin, D.A., Stevens, D.M., Thoreen, C.C., Burds, A.A., Kalaany, N.Y., Moffat, J., Brown, M., Fitzgerald, K.J., Sabatini, D.M. (2006) Ablation in Mice of the mTORC Components raptor, rictor, or mLST8 Reveals that mTORC2 Is Required for Signaling to Akt-FOXO and PKCalpha, but Not S6K1. Developmental Cell 11:859-871. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

Carpenter, A.E., Jones, T.R., Lamprecht, M.R., Clarke, C., Kang, I.H., Friman, O., Guertin, D.A., Chang, J.H., Lindquist, R.A., Moffat, J., Golland, P., Sabatini, D.M. (2006) CellProfiler: image analysis software for identifying and quantifying cell phenotypes. Genome Biology 7:R100. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Reiling, J.H. and Sabatini, D.M. (2006) Stress and mTORture signaling. Oncogene 25: 6373-6383. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Echeverri, C.J., Beachy, P.A., Baum, B., Boutros, M., Buchholz, F., Chanda, S.K., Downward, J.,Ellenberg, J., Fraser, A.G., Hacohen, N., Hahn, W.C., Jackson, A.L., Kiger, A., Linsley, P.S., Lum, L., Ma, Y., Mathey-Prevot, B., Root, D.E., Sabatini, D.M., Taipale, J., Perrimon, N., Bernards, R. (2006) Minimizing the risk of reporting false positives in large-scale RNAi screens. Nature Methods 3: 777-779. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Root, D.E., Hacohen, N., Hahn, W.C., Lander, E.S., Sabatini, D.M. (2006)
Genome-scale loss-of-function screening with a lentiviral RNAi library.
Nature Methods 3: 715-719. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Frias M.A., Thoreen C.C., Jaffe J.D., Schroder W., Sculley T., Carr S.A., and Sabatini D.M. (2006) mSin1 Is Necessary for Akt/PKB Phosphorylation, and Its Isoforms Define Three Distinct mTORC2s. Current Biology. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

Sabatini D.M. (2006) mTOR and cancer: insights into a complex relationship. Nature Reviews Cancer 6: 729-734. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Guertin, D.A., Guntur K.V., Bell, G.W., Thoreen, C.C. and Sabatini, D.M.(2006) Functional Genomics Identifies TOR-Regulated Genes that Control Growth and Division. Current Biology 16: 958-970. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data) (MS Excel file of expression data)

Sarbassov, D.D., Ali, S,M, Sengupta, S., Sheen, J.-H., Hsu, P.P., Bagley, A.F., Markhard, A.L. and Sabatini, D,M. (2006) Prolonged Rapamycin Treatment Inhibits mTORC2 Assembly and Akt/PKB. Molecular Cell 22: 159-168. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

Moffat, J., Grueneberg, D.A., Yang, X., Kim, S.Y., Kloepfer, A.M., Hinkle, G., Piqani, B., Eisenhaure, T.M., Luo, B., Grenier, J.K., Carpenter, A.E., Foo, S.Y., Stewart, S.A., Stockwell, B.R., Hacohen, N., Hahn, W.C., Lander, E.S., Sabatini, D.M., and Root, D.E. (2006) A Lentiviral RNAi Library for Human and Mouse Genes Applied to an Arrayed Viral High-Content Screen. Cell 124: 1283-1298. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

Guertin, D.A and Sabatini, D.M. (2006) Cell Size Control. In: Encylopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0003359] (PDF)

Moffat, J. and Sabatini, D.M. (2006) Building mammalian signalling pathways with RNAi screens. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7: 177-187. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Bailey, S.N., Ali, S,M, Carpenter, A.E., Higgins, C.O., Sabatini, D,M.(2006) Microarrays of lentiviruses for gene function screens in immortalized and primary cells. Nature Methods, 3: 117-122. (Medline Link) (PDF)

2005

Sarbassov, D.D., Ali, S,M, Sabatini, D,M. (2005) Growing roles for the mTOR pathway. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 17: 596-603. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Sarbassov, D.D. and Sabatini, D.M. (2005) Redox regulation of the nutrient-sensitive Raptor-mTOR pathway complex. J. Biol. Chem 280:39505-39509. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Guertin, D.A and Sabatini, D.M. (2005) An expanding role for mTOR in cancer. Trends in Molecular Medicine 37: S25-S30. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Wheeler, D.B, Carpenter, A.E., and Sabatini, D.M. (2005) Cell microarrays and RNA interference chip away at gene function. Nature Genetics Supplement 37: S25-S30. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Ali, S.M. and Sabatini, D.M. (2005) Structure of S6K1 determines if raptor-mTOR or rictor-mTOR phosphorylates its hydrophobic motif site. J. Biol. Chem. 280:19445-8. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Sarbassov, D.D., Guertin, D.A., Ali, S.M., and Sabatini, D.M. (2005) Phosphorylation and Regulation of Akt/PKB by the Rictor-mTOR complex. Science 307:1098-1101. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data)

2004
Bailey S.N., Sabatini D.M., Stockwell B.R. (2004) Microarrays of small molecules embedded in biodegradable polymers for use in mammalian cell-based screens. PNAS 101:16144-16149. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Wheeler, D.B., Bailey, S.N., Guertin, D.A., Carpenter, A.E., Higgins, C.O., Sabatini, D.M. (2004) RNAi living-cell microarrays for loss-of-function screens in Drosophila melanogaster cells. Nature Methods 1:127-132. (Medline Link) (PDF) (PDF of News&Views article referring to this work) (Drosophila RNAi cell microarray home page)

Sarbassov, D., Ali, S.M., Kim, D.-H., Guertin, D.A., Latek, R.R., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., Sabatini, D.M. (2004) Rictor, a novel binding partner of mTOR, defines a rapamycin-insensitive and raptor-independent pathway that regulates the cytoskeleton. Current Biology 14: 1296-1302. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supp. Data) (siRNAs used).

Guertin, D. A., Kim, D.-H., and Sabatini, D. M. (2004) “Growth Control Through the mTOR Network” in Cell Growth: Control of Cell Size (Edited by Michael N. Hall, Martin Raff, and George Thomas). pp193-234. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Thoreen, C.C. and Sabatini, D.M. (2004) Huntingtin aggregates ask to be eaten. Nature Genetics 36: 553-554. (Medline Link)

Carpenter, A.E. and Sabatini, D.M. (2004) Systematic Genome-Wide Screens of Gene Function. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 11-22. (Medline Link) (PDF)

2003
Schalm, S.S., Fingar, D.C., Sabatini, D.M., and Blenis J. (2003) TOS Motif-Mediated Raptor Binding Regulates 4E-BP1 Multisite Phosphorylation and Function. Current Biology 13: 797-806. (Medline Link)

Kim, D.-H., Sarbassov, D., Ali, S.M., Latek, R.R., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., and Sabatini, D.M. (2003) GbL: a positive regulator of the rapamycin-sensitive pathway required for the nutrient-sensitive interaction between mTOR and raptor. Molecular Cell 11: 895-904. (Medline Link) (PDF) (siRNAs used)

Stewart, S.A., Dykxhoorn, D.M., Palliser, D., Mizuno, H., Yu, E.Y., An, D.S., Sabatini, D.M., Chen, I.S.Y., Hahn, W.C., Sharp, P.A., Weinberg, R.A., and Novina, C.D. (2003) Lentivirus-delivered stable gene silencing by RNAi in primary cells. RNA 9: 493-501.(Medline Link) (PDF)

2002
Kim, D.-H., and Sabatini, D.M. (2002) Raptor and mTOR: subunits of a nutrient-sensitive complex. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. 279: 259-270. (Medline Link)

Wu, R., Bailey, S. and Sabatini, D.M. (2002) Cell biological applications of transfected cell microarrays. Trends in Cell Biology, 12: 485-488. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Kim, D.-H., Sarbassov, D., Ali, S.M., King, J.E., Latek, R.R., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., and Sabatini, D.M. (2002) mTOR interacts with raptor to form a nutrient-sensitive complex that signals to the growth machinery. Cell 110: 163-175. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Supplemental Data) (siRNAs used)

Bailey, S., Wu, R. and Sabatini, D.M. (2002) Applications of transfected cell microarrays to drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today, High-throughput Technologies Supplement: S113-118. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Peng, T., Golub, T., and Sabatini, D.M. (2002) The immunosuppressant rapamycin mimics a starvation-like signal distinct from amino acid or glucose deprivation. Mol. Cell. Bio. 22: 5575-5584. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Rapachip website)

Hahn, W.C., Dessain, S.K., Brooks, M.W., King, J.E., Elenbass, B., Sabatini, D.M., DeCaprio, J.A., and Weinberg, R.A. (2002) Enumeration of the pathways required for tumorigenic transformation of human cells. Mol. Cell. Bio. 22: 2111-2123. (Medline Link) (PDF)


pre 2002
Hentges, K.E., Sirry, B., Gingras, A.C., Sarbassov, D., Sonenberg, N., Sabatini, D.M., Peterson, A.S. (2001). FRAP/mTOR is required for proliferation and patterning during embryonic development in the mouse. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 13796-13801. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Ziauddin, J. and Sabatini, D.M. (2001) Microarrays of cells expressing defined cDNAs. Nature 411, 107-110. (Medline Link) (PDF) (Reverse Transfection Homepage)

Kumar, V., Sabatini, D., Pandey, P., Gingras, A.C., Majumder, P.K., Kumar, M., Yuan, Z.M., Carmichael, G., Weichselbaum, R., Sonenberg, N., Kufe, D., Kharbandam S. (2000) Regulation of the rapamycin and FKBP-target 1/mammalian target of rapamycin and cap-dependent initiation of translation by the c-Abl protein-tyrosine kinase. J. Biol. Chem. 275:10779-87. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Kumar, V, Pandey, P, Sabatini, D.M., Kumar, M, Majumder, P.K., Bharti, A., Carmichael, G., Kufe, D., Kharbanda, S. (2000) Functional interaction between RAFT1/FRAP/mTOR and protein kinase c d in the regulation of cap-dependent initiation of translation. EMBO 19:1087-1097. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Sabatini, D.M., Barrow, R.K., Blackshaw, S., Burnett, P.E., Lai, M.L., Field, M.E., Bahr,B.A., Kirsch, J., Betz, H., Snyder, S.H. (1999) Interaction of RAFT1 with the Clustering Protein Gephyrin Required for Rapamycin-Sensitive Signaling. Science 284: 1161-1164. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Walensky, L.D., Dawson, T.M., Steiner, J.P., Sabatini, D.M., Suarez, J.D., Klinefelter, G.R., Snyder, S.H. (1998) The 12 kD FK 506 binding protein FKBP12 is released in the male reproductive tract and stimulates sperm motility. Mol. Med. 4: 502-514. (Medline Link)

Burnett, P.E., Blackshaw, S., Mai, M.L., Qureshi, I.A., Burnett, A.F., Sabatini, D.M. and Snyder, S.H. (1998) Neurabin is a synaptic protein linking p70 S6 kinase and the neuronal cytoskeleton. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 8351-8356. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Snyder, S.H., Sabatini, D.M., Lai, M.M., Steiner, J.P., Hamilton, G.S. and Suzdak, P.D. (1998) Neural actions of immunophilin ligands. Trends Pharm. Sci. 19: 21-26. (Medline Link)

Burnett, P.E., Barrow, R.K., Cohen, N.A., Snyder, S.H. and Sabatini, D.M. (1998) RAFT1 phosphorylation of translational regulators p70 S6 kinase and 4E-BP1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 1432-1437. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Sabatini, D.M., Lai, M.M. and Snyder S.H. (1997) Neural roles of the immunophilins. Molecular Neurobiology 15: 223-239. (Medline Link)

Khan, A.A., Soloski, M.J., Sharp, A.H., Schilling, G., Sabatini, D.M., Li, S.H., Ross, C.A., and Snyder, S.H. (1996). Lymphocyte Apoptosis: Mediation by Increased Type 3 Inositol 1,4,5-Triphosphate Receptor. Science 273: 503-507. (Medline Link)

Sabatini, D.M., Pierchala, B.A., Barrow, R.K., Schell, M.J., and Snyder, S.H. (1995). The Rapamycin and FKBP12 Target (RAFT) Displays Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase Activity. J. Biol. Chem. 270: 20875-20878. (Medline Link) (PDF)

Snyder, S.H. and Sabatini, D.M. (1995). Immunophilins and the nervous system. Nature Medicine 1: 32-37. (Medline link)

Cameron, A.M., Steiner, J.P., Sabatini, D.M., Kaplin, A.I., Walensky, L.D. and Snyder, S.H. (1995). Immunophilin FK506 binding protein associated with inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor modulates calcium influx. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 1784-1788. (Medline Link)

Erdjument-Bromage, H., Lui, M., Sabatini D.M., Snyder S.H. and Tempst, P. (1994). High-sensitivity sequencing of large proteins: partial structure of the rapamycin-FKBP12 target. Protein Science 3: 2435-2446. (Medline Link)

Sabatini, D.M., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Lui, M., Tempst, P. and Snyder S.H. (1994). RAFT1: A Mammalian Protein That Binds to FKBP12 in a Rapamycin-Dependent Fashion and is Homologous to Yeast TORs. Cell 78: 35-43. (Medline Link)

Baccarini, M., Sabatini, D.M., App, H., Rapp, U.R. and Stanley, E.R. (1990). Colony Stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) stimulates temperature dependent phosphorylation and activation of the RAF-1 proto-oncogene product. EMBO 9: 3649-3657. (Medline Link)