Artículo
Limiting glutamine utilization activates a GCN2/TRAIL-R2/Caspase-8 apoptotic pathway in glutamine-addicted tumor cells
Autor/es | Yerbes, Rosario
Mora Molina, Rocío Fernández Farrán, F. Javier Hiraldo, Laura López Rivas, Abelardo Palacios, Carmen |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Fisiología |
Fecha de publicación | 2022 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-11-11 |
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Resumen | Oncogenic transformation leads to changes in glutamine metabolism that make transformed cells highly dependent on glutamine for anabolic growth and survival. Herein, we investigated the cell death mechanism activated in ... Oncogenic transformation leads to changes in glutamine metabolism that make transformed cells highly dependent on glutamine for anabolic growth and survival. Herein, we investigated the cell death mechanism activated in glutamine-addicted tumor cells in response to the limitation of glutamine metabolism. We show that glutamine starvation triggers a FADD and caspase-8-dependent and mitochondria-operated apoptotic program in tumor cells that involves the pro-apoptotic TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2), but is independent of its cognate ligand TRAIL. In glutamine-depleted tumor cells, activation of the amino acid-sensing general control nonderepressible-2 kinase (GCN2) is responsible for TRAIL-R2 upregulation, caspase-8 activation, and apoptotic cell death. Interestingly, GCN2-dependent ISR signaling induced by methionine starvation also leads to TRAIL-R2 upregulation and apoptosis. Moreover, pharmacological inhibition of transaminases activates a GCN2 and TRAIL-R2-dependent apoptotic mechanism that is inhibited by non-essential amino acids (NEAA). In addition, metabolic stress upon glutamine deprivation also results in GCN2-independent FLICE-inhibitory protein (FLIP) downregulation facilitating caspase-8 activation and apoptosis. Importantly, downregulation of the long FLIP splice form (FLIPL) and apoptosis upon glutamine deprivation are inhibited in the presence of a membrane-permeable α-ketoglutarate. Collectively, our data support a model in which limiting glutamine utilization in glutamine-addicted tumor cells triggers a previously unknown cell death mechanism regulated by GCN2 that involves the TRAIL-R2-mediated activation of the extrinsic apoptotic pathway. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN). España European Community (EC) Junta de Andalucía |
Identificador del proyecto | SAF2015-64383-P
PGC2018- 093960-B-I00 CIBERONC ISCIII CB16/12/00421 PY20-00754 |
Cita | Yerbes, R., Mora Molina, R., Fernández Farrán, F.J., Hiraldo, L., López Rivas, A. y Palacios, C. (2022). Limiting glutamine utilization activates a GCN2/TRAIL-R2/Caspase-8 apoptotic pathway in glutamine-addicted tumor cells. Cell Death and Disease, 13 (10), 906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-05346-y. |
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