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Nature
Thrifty energy metabolism in solid tumours.
2023-02-01
PubMed:36725937; DOI:10.1038/d41586-023-00151-9
Affiliations
Nature chemical biology
Complex regulation in a Comamonas platform for diverse aromatic carbon metabolism.
2023-02-06
PubMed:36747056; DOI:10.1038/s41589-022-01237-7
Rebecca A Wilkes1, Jacob Waldbauer2, Austin Caroll3, Manuel Nieto-Domínguez4, Darren J Parker3, Lichun Zhang2, Adam M Guss3, Ludmilla Aristilde5
Affiliations
- Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
- Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
It was so much fun to write a News & Views article for Nature Chemical Biology on great work published by Prof. Ludmilla Aristilde, Adam Guss et al. @nchembio
https://nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01237-7…
Wow, this is very cool! Unraveling the details of pathways involved in the bacterial breakdown of plastics and plant cell wall polymers. Congrats to all!
A bacterium that naturally processes #plastics and #lignin compounds? How does it work? Just published in @nchembio Nature Chem Bio, @AristildeLab research unravels mechanisms of #metabolism in a Comamonas species as platform for #carbon recycling. Link: https://rdcu.be/c403i
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The SLC25A47 locus controls gluconeogenesis and energy expenditure.
2023-02-22
PubMed:36812201; DOI:10.1073/pnas.2216810120
Jin-Seon Yook1, Zachary H Taxin1, Bo Yuan2, Satoshi Oikawa1, Christopher Auger1, Beste Mutlu3, Pere Puigserver3, Sheng Hui2, Shingo Kajimura1
Affiliations
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
Phenotypes of mice with depletion of SLC25A47 include reduced mitochondrial pyruvate flux and hepatic gluconeogenesis, increased FGF21 and energy expenditure, providing a liver-specific target for restriction of hepatic gluconeogenesis #diabetes @PNASNews
Most mitochondrial carriers are ubiquitously expressed, but two exceptions: UCP1 specific to brown fat, and an orphan carrier SLC25A47 to the liver. We found that this liver-specific carrier is required for hepatic gluconeogenesis and energy expenditure!
microbes
Metabolic engineering communications
Metabolic engineering of low-pH-tolerant non-model yeast, Issatchenkia orientalis , for production of citramalate.
2023-02-16
PubMed:36860699; DOI:10.1016/j.mec.2023.e00220
Zong-Yen Wu1, Wan Sun2, Yihui Shen3, Jimmy Pratas3, Patrick F Suthers4, Ping-Hung Hsieh5, Sudharsan Dwaraknath5, Joshua D Rabinowitz3, Costas D Maranas4, Zengyi Shao2, Yasuo Yoshikuni1
Affiliations
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Interdepartmental Microbiology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1027, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
cancer-and-disease
Redox biology
NADK-mediated de novo NADP(H) synthesis is a metabolic adaptation essential for breast cancer metastasis.
2023-02-09
PubMed:36841051; DOI:10.1016/j.redox.2023.102627
Didem Ilter1, Stanislav Drapela1, Tanya Schild2, Nathan P Ward3, Emma Adhikari4, Vivien Low5, John Asara6, Thordur Oskarsson1, Eric K Lau4, Gina M DeNicola3, Melanie R McReynolds7, Ana P Gomes8
Affiliations
- Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
- Department of Tumor Biology, H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Mass Spectrometry Core, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA; Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
- Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
congrats to the @lab_gomes !
NADK-mediated de novo NADP(H) synthesis is a metabolic adaptation esse…
Featured today by @MSKLibrary: #NADK-mediated de novo NADP(H) synthesis is a metabolic adaptation essential for #breastcancer #metastasis: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2023.102627…
@StanislavDrpel1 @ThordurOskarss2 @LabDeNicola @mcreynolds_lab @dr_ohsopretty
“Here, we show that NADK is upregulated in metastatic breast cancer cells enabling de novo production of NADP(H) and the expansion of the NADP(H) pools thereby increasing the ability of these cells to adapt to the challenges of the metastatic cascade and efficiently metastasize”
So excited to share the first original publication from our lab, where we explore an essential role for de novo NAPDH synthesis to empower TNBC progression into metastatic disease!
Beautiful paper by Ana Gomes’ group showing a new connection between epigenetics and metabolism – Histone variant H3.3 dependent activation of NADK promoter leading to increased NADPH availability in tripled neg breast cancer
Our st lab paper is out! Thanks to @lab_gomes for the opportunity to pull my weight in this project!