Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Nat Metab. 2022 Apr;4(4):435-443. doi: 10.1038/s42255-022-00553-5. Epub 2022 Mar 31.
The alteration of metabolic pathways is a critical strategy for cancer cells to attain the traits necessary for metastasis in disease progression. Here, we find that dysregulation of propionate metabolism produces a pro-aggressive signature in breast and lung cancer cells, increasing their metastatic potential. This occurs through the downregulation of methylmalonyl coenzyme A epimerase (MCEE), mediated by an extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2-driven transcription factor Sp1/early growth response protein 1 transcriptional switch driven by metastatic signalling at its promoter level. The loss of MCEE results in reduced propionate-driven anaplerotic flux and intracellular and intratumoral accumulation of methylmalonic acid, a by-product of propionate metabolism that promotes cancer cell invasiveness. Altogether, we present a previously uncharacterized dysregulation of propionate metabolism as an important contributor to cancer and a valuable potential target in the therapeutic treatment of metastatic carcinomas.
代谢途径的改变是癌细胞获得疾病进展中转移所需特征的关键策略。在这里,我们发现丙酸盐代谢的失调会在乳腺和肺癌细胞中产生促进侵袭的特征,增加它们的转移潜力。这是通过细胞外信号调节激酶 2 驱动的转录因子 Sp1/早期生长反应蛋白 1 转录开关介导的丙酰辅酶 A 差向异构酶(MCEE)的下调来实现的,该转录开关由转移信号在其启动子水平驱动。MCEE 的缺失导致丙酸盐驱动的补充代谢通量减少,以及甲基丙二酸在细胞内和肿瘤内的积累,甲基丙二酸是丙酸盐代谢的副产物,可促进癌细胞侵袭性。总之,我们提出了一种以前未被描述的丙酸盐代谢失调,它是癌症的一个重要贡献因素,也是转移性癌治疗的一个有价值的潜在靶点。
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