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SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells
Glutamine and lipids are two important components of proliferating cancer cells. Studies have demonstrated that glutamine synthetase (GS) boosts glutamine-dependent anabolic processes for nucleotide and protein synthesis, but the role of GS in regulating lipogenesis remains unclear. This study ident...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8469118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575972 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22189814 |
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author | Jhu, Jin-Wei Yan, Jia-Bao Lin, Zou-Han Lin, Shih-Chieh Peng, I-Chen |
author_facet | Jhu, Jin-Wei Yan, Jia-Bao Lin, Zou-Han Lin, Shih-Chieh Peng, I-Chen |
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description | Glutamine and lipids are two important components of proliferating cancer cells. Studies have demonstrated that glutamine synthetase (GS) boosts glutamine-dependent anabolic processes for nucleotide and protein synthesis, but the role of GS in regulating lipogenesis remains unclear. This study identified that insulin and glutamine deprivation activated the lipogenic transcription factor sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 (SREBP1) that bound to the GS promoter and increased its transcription. Notably, GS enhanced the O-linked N-acetylglucosaminylation (O-GlcNAcylation) of the specificity protein 1 (Sp1) that induced SREBP1/acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1) expression resulting in lipid droplet (LD) accumulation upon insulin treatment. Moreover, glutamine deprivation induced LD formation through GS-mediated O-GlcNAc-Sp1/SREBP1/ACC1 signaling and supported cell survival. These findings demonstrate that insulin and glutamine deprivation induces SREBP1 that transcriptionally activates GS, resulting in Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation. Subsequently, O-GlcNAc-Sp1 transcriptionally upregulates the expression of SREBP1, resulting in a feedforward loop that increases lipogenesis and LD formation in liver and breast cancer cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-84691182021-09-27 SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells Jhu, Jin-Wei Yan, Jia-Bao Lin, Zou-Han Lin, Shih-Chieh Peng, I-Chen Int J Mol Sci Article Glutamine and lipids are two important components of proliferating cancer cells. Studies have demonstrated that glutamine synthetase (GS) boosts glutamine-dependent anabolic processes for nucleotide and protein synthesis, but the role of GS in regulating lipogenesis remains unclear. This study identified that insulin and glutamine deprivation activated the lipogenic transcription factor sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 (SREBP1) that bound to the GS promoter and increased its transcription. Notably, GS enhanced the O-linked N-acetylglucosaminylation (O-GlcNAcylation) of the specificity protein 1 (Sp1) that induced SREBP1/acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1) expression resulting in lipid droplet (LD) accumulation upon insulin treatment. Moreover, glutamine deprivation induced LD formation through GS-mediated O-GlcNAc-Sp1/SREBP1/ACC1 signaling and supported cell survival. These findings demonstrate that insulin and glutamine deprivation induces SREBP1 that transcriptionally activates GS, resulting in Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation. Subsequently, O-GlcNAc-Sp1 transcriptionally upregulates the expression of SREBP1, resulting in a feedforward loop that increases lipogenesis and LD formation in liver and breast cancer cells. MDPI 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8469118/ /pubmed/34575972 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22189814 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jhu, Jin-Wei Yan, Jia-Bao Lin, Zou-Han Lin, Shih-Chieh Peng, I-Chen SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title | SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title_full | SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title_fullStr | SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title_short | SREBP1-Induced Glutamine Synthetase Triggers a Feedforward Loop to Upregulate SREBP1 through Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation and Augments Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells |
title_sort | srebp1-induced glutamine synthetase triggers a feedforward loop to upregulate srebp1 through sp1 o-glcnacylation and augments lipid droplet formation in cancer cells |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8469118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575972 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22189814 |
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