Bhowmick Rupa, Campit Scott, Katkam Shiva Krishna, Keshamouni Venkateshwar G, Chandrasekaran Sriram
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Commun Biol. 2024 Dec 27;7(1):1704. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07408-7.
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a conserved cellular process critical for embryogenesis, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. During EMT, cells undergo large-scale metabolic reprogramming that supports multiple functional phenotypes including migration, invasion, survival, chemo-resistance and stemness. However, the extent of metabolic network rewiring during EMT is unclear. In this work, using genome-scale metabolic modeling, we perform a meta-analysis of time-course transcriptomics, time-course proteomics, and single-cell transcriptomics EMT datasets from cell culture models stimulated with TGF-β. We uncovered temporal metabolic dependencies in glycolysis and glutamine metabolism, and experimentally validated isoform-specific dependency on Enolase3 for cell survival during EMT. We derived a prioritized list of metabolic dependencies based on model predictions, literature mining, and CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens. Notably, enolase and triose phosphate isomerase reaction fluxes significantly correlate with survival of lung adenocarcinoma patients. Our study illustrates how integration of heterogeneous datasets using a mechanistic computational model can uncover temporal and cell-state-specific metabolic dependencies.
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