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Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels
Mutations in the RB1 locus leading to a loss of functional Rb protein cause intraocular tumors, which uniquely affect children worldwide. These tumors demonstrate rapid proliferation, which has recently been shown to be associated with an altered metabolic signature. We found that retinoblastoma tum...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9600484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11203182 |
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author | Suresh Babu, Vishnu Dudeja, Gagan SA, Deepak Bisht, Anadi Shetty, Rohit Heymans, Stephane Guha, Nilanjan Ghosh, Arkasubhra |
author_facet | Suresh Babu, Vishnu Dudeja, Gagan SA, Deepak Bisht, Anadi Shetty, Rohit Heymans, Stephane Guha, Nilanjan Ghosh, Arkasubhra |
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description | Mutations in the RB1 locus leading to a loss of functional Rb protein cause intraocular tumors, which uniquely affect children worldwide. These tumors demonstrate rapid proliferation, which has recently been shown to be associated with an altered metabolic signature. We found that retinoblastoma tumors and in-vitro models lack Hexokinase 1 (HK1) and exhibit elevated fatty acid oxidation. We show that ectopic expression of RB1 induces HK1 protein in Rb null cells, and both RB1 and HK1 can mediate a metabolic switch from OXPHOS to glycolysis with increased pyruvate levels, reduced ATP production and reduced mitochondrial mass. Further, cells lacking Rb or HK1 can flexibly utilize glutamine and fatty acids to enhance oxidative phosphorylation-dependent ATP generation, as revealed by metabolic and biochemical assays. Thus, loss of Rb and HK1 in retinoblastoma reprograms tumor metabolic circuits to enhance the glucose-independent TCA (tricarboxylic acid) cycle and the intermediate NAD+/NADH ratios, with a subsequent increase in fatty-acid derived L-carnitine to enhance mitochondrial OXPHOS for ATP production instead of glycolysis dependence. We also demonstrate that modulation of the Rb-regulated transcription factor E2F2 does not result in any of these metabolic perturbations. In conclusion, we demonstrate RB1 or HK1 as critical regulators of the cellular bioenergetic profile and identify the altered tumor metabolism as a potential therapeutic target for cancers lacking functional Rb protein. |
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spelling | pubmed-96004842022-10-27 Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels Suresh Babu, Vishnu Dudeja, Gagan SA, Deepak Bisht, Anadi Shetty, Rohit Heymans, Stephane Guha, Nilanjan Ghosh, Arkasubhra Cells Article Mutations in the RB1 locus leading to a loss of functional Rb protein cause intraocular tumors, which uniquely affect children worldwide. These tumors demonstrate rapid proliferation, which has recently been shown to be associated with an altered metabolic signature. We found that retinoblastoma tumors and in-vitro models lack Hexokinase 1 (HK1) and exhibit elevated fatty acid oxidation. We show that ectopic expression of RB1 induces HK1 protein in Rb null cells, and both RB1 and HK1 can mediate a metabolic switch from OXPHOS to glycolysis with increased pyruvate levels, reduced ATP production and reduced mitochondrial mass. Further, cells lacking Rb or HK1 can flexibly utilize glutamine and fatty acids to enhance oxidative phosphorylation-dependent ATP generation, as revealed by metabolic and biochemical assays. Thus, loss of Rb and HK1 in retinoblastoma reprograms tumor metabolic circuits to enhance the glucose-independent TCA (tricarboxylic acid) cycle and the intermediate NAD+/NADH ratios, with a subsequent increase in fatty-acid derived L-carnitine to enhance mitochondrial OXPHOS for ATP production instead of glycolysis dependence. We also demonstrate that modulation of the Rb-regulated transcription factor E2F2 does not result in any of these metabolic perturbations. In conclusion, we demonstrate RB1 or HK1 as critical regulators of the cellular bioenergetic profile and identify the altered tumor metabolism as a potential therapeutic target for cancers lacking functional Rb protein. MDPI 2022-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9600484/ /pubmed/36291051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11203182 Text en © 2022 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 Suresh Babu, Vishnu Dudeja, Gagan SA, Deepak Bisht, Anadi Shetty, Rohit Heymans, Stephane Guha, Nilanjan Ghosh, Arkasubhra Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title | Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title_full | Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title_fullStr | Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title_full_unstemmed | Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title_short | Lack of Retinoblastoma Protein Shifts Tumor Metabolism from Glycolysis to OXPHOS and Allows the Use of Alternate Fuels |
title_sort | lack of retinoblastoma protein shifts tumor metabolism from glycolysis to oxphos and allows the use of alternate fuels |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9600484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11203182 |
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