Publication Date:
2011-11-05
Description:
Control of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) concentrations is critical for cancer cell survival. We show that, in human lung cancer cells, acute increases in intracellular concentrations of ROS caused inhibition of the glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) through oxidation of Cys(358). This inhibition of PKM2 is required to divert glucose flux into the pentose phosphate pathway and thereby generate sufficient reducing potential for detoxification of ROS. Lung cancer cells in which endogenous PKM2 was replaced with the Cys(358) to Ser(358) oxidation-resistant mutant exhibited increased sensitivity to oxidative stress and impaired tumor formation in a xenograft model. Besides promoting metabolic changes required for proliferation, the regulatory properties of PKM2 may confer an additional advantage to cancer cells by allowing them to withstand oxidative stress.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471535/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471535/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Anastasiou, Dimitrios -- Poulogiannis, George -- Asara, John M -- Boxer, Matthew B -- Jiang, Jian-kang -- Shen, Min -- Bellinger, Gary -- Sasaki, Atsuo T -- Locasale, Jason W -- Auld, Douglas S -- Thomas, Craig J -- Vander Heiden, Matthew G -- Cantley, Lewis C -- 1P30CA147882/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA089021/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA117969/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01-CA089021/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01-CA117969-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM056203/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM056203-13/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R03MH085679/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Dec 2;334(6060):1278-83. doi: 10.1126/science.1211485. Epub 2011 Nov 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medicine-Division of Signal Transduction, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22052977" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acetylcysteine/pharmacology
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Amino Acid Substitution
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Animals
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Antioxidants/*metabolism
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Cell Survival
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Cysteine/chemistry
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Diamide/pharmacology
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Enzyme Activators/pharmacology
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Glucose/metabolism
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Glutathione/metabolism
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Humans
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Mice
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Mice, Nude
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Mutant Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Neoplasm Transplantation
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Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism/pathology
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxidative Stress
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Pentose Phosphate Pathway
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Protein Subunits
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Pyruvate Kinase/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Reactive Oxygen Species/*metabolism
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Transplantation, Heterologous
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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