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Identifying targetable metabolic dependencies across colorectal cancer progression

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العنوان: Identifying targetable metabolic dependencies across colorectal cancer progression
المؤلفون: Danny N. Legge, Tracey J. Collard, Ewelina Stanko, Ashley J. Hoskin, Amy K. Holt, Caroline J. Bull, Madhu Kollareddy, Jake Bellamy, Sarah Groves, Eric H. Ma, Emma Hazelwood, David Qualtrough, Borko Amulic, Karim Malik, Ann C. Williams, Nicholas Jones, Emma E. Vincent
المصدر: Molecular Metabolism, Vol 90, Iss , Pp 102037- (2024)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Internal medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Colorectal cancer, Oncometabolism, Asparagine, Asparagine synthetase, Adenoma, Adenocarcinoma, Internal medicine, RC31-1245
الوصف: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a multi-stage process initiated through the formation of a benign adenoma, progressing to an invasive carcinoma and finally metastatic spread. Tumour cells must adapt their metabolism to support the energetic and biosynthetic demands associated with disease progression. As such, targeting cancer cell metabolism is a promising therapeutic avenue in CRC. However, to identify tractable nodes of metabolic vulnerability specific to CRC stage, we must understand how metabolism changes during CRC development. Here, we use a unique model system – comprising human early adenoma to late adenocarcinoma. We show that adenoma cells transition to elevated glycolysis at the early stages of tumour progression but maintain oxidative metabolism. Progressed adenocarcinoma cells rely more on glutamine-derived carbon to fuel the TCA cycle, whereas glycolysis and TCA cycle activity remain tightly coupled in early adenoma cells. Adenocarcinoma cells are more flexible with respect to fuel source, enabling them to proliferate in nutrient-poor environments. Despite this plasticity, we identify asparagine (ASN) synthesis as a node of metabolic vulnerability in late-stage adenocarcinoma cells. We show that loss of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) blocks their proliferation, whereas early adenoma cells are largely resistant to ASN deprivation. Mechanistically, we show that late-stage adenocarcinoma cells are dependent on ASNS to support mTORC1 signalling and maximal glycolytic and oxidative capacity. Resistance to ASNS loss in early adenoma cells is likely due to a feedback loop, absent in late-stage cells, allowing them to sense and regulate ASN levels and supplement ASN by autophagy. Together, our study defines metabolic changes during CRC development and highlights ASN synthesis as a targetable metabolic vulnerability in later stage disease.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2212-8778
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877824001686; https://doaj.org/toc/2212-8778
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2024.102037
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/b9bf09afa6cc4ffa9c8af160884748f0
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.b9bf09afa6cc4ffa9c8af160884748f0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22128778
DOI:10.1016/j.molmet.2024.102037