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 "meta": {
  "api_version": "1.0.0",
  "dataset_version": "2.0.1",
  "corpus_snapshot": "2026-10-12T22:59:14+0200",
  "source_commit": "93739c9d195dc39e47eecfabc3cab2565a2f256f",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "cite": "Barton O. Oliver's mTOR Atlas. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22059963",
  "docs": "https://mtor-atlas.org/api/"
 },
 "data": {
  "id": "MLST8-MTORC2",
  "claim": "mLST8 required-for mTORC2",
  "source": {
   "name": "mLST8",
   "entity": "mlst8"
  },
  "target": {
   "name": "mTORC2",
   "entity": "mtorc2"
  },
  "effect": "required-for",
  "type": "complex-assembly",
  "directness": "direct",
  "timescale": "constitutive",
  "compartment": "cytosol",
  "map_band": "cytosol",
  "species": [
   "mouse"
  ],
  "mechanism": "mLST8 is dispensable for mTORC1 in vivo but essential for mTORC2 - a rare clean genetic separation of the two complexes.",
  "mechanism_beginner": "This protein isn't needed for mTORC1 in a living animal, but mTORC2 can't work without it – a clean genetic way to tell the two complexes apart.",
  "context": null,
  "boundary": "Knockout mice (GUE2006) and human cell biochemistry (KIM2003). The separation of the two complexes is shown in mouse tissue; whether it holds in human tissue is not tested by these studies.",
  "note": "The cleanest genetic argument that the two complexes are truly separate machines.",
  "consensus_contested": false,
  "curation_contested": false,
  "contested": false,
  "confidence": {
   "mechanistic": "high",
   "human_relevance": "plausible",
   "consensus": "established"
  },
  "evidence": {
   "kind": "Genetic epistasis",
   "strongest": {
    "code": "M",
    "label": "Molecular — cells, biochemistry, structure"
   },
   "supporting": [
    "GUE2006",
    "KIM2003"
   ],
   "conflicting": []
  },
  "external_refs": [],
  "reviewed": null,
  "updated": null,
  "checked": null,
  "review_status": "unreviewed",
  "reviewer": null,
  "curation_status": "Proposed",
  "url": "https://mtor-atlas.org/relation/MLST8-MTORC2/",
  "api_url": "https://mtor-atlas.org/api/v1/relations/MLST8-MTORC2.json"
 }
}