Snail reprograms glucose metabolism by repressing phosphofructokinase PFKP allowing cancer cell survival under metabolic stress

Nam Hee Kim; Yong Hoon Cha; Jueun Lee; Seon Hyeong Lee; Ji Hye Yang; Jun Seop Yun; Eunae Sandra Cho; Xianglan Zhang; Miso Nam; Nami Kim; Young Su Yuk; So Young Cha; Yoonmi Lee; Joo Kyung Ryu; Sunghyouk Park; Jae Ho Cheong; Sang Won Kang; Soo Youl Kim; Geum Sook Hwang; Jong In Yook; Hyun Sil Kim

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Snail reprograms glucose metabolism by repressing phosphofructokinase PFKP allowing cancer cell survival under metabolic stress

Nam Hee Kim, Yong Hoon Cha, Jueun Lee, Seon Hyeong Lee, Ji Hye Yang, Jun Seop Yun, Eunae Sandra Cho, Xianglan Zhang, Miso Nam, Nami Kim, Young Su Yuk, So Young Cha, Yoonmi Lee, Joo Kyung Ryu, Sunghyouk Park, Jae Ho Cheong, Sang Won Kang, Soo Youl Kim, Geum Sook Hwang, Jong In YookHyun Sil Kim

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Dynamic regulation of glucose flux between aerobic glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) during epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is not well-understood. Here we show that Snail (SNAI1), a key transcriptional repressor of EMT, regulates glucose flux toward PPP, allowing cancer cell survival under metabolic stress. Mechanistically, Snail regulates glycolytic activity via repression of phosphofructokinase, platelet (PFKP), a major isoform of cancer-specific phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1), an enzyme involving the first rate-limiting step of glycolysis. The suppression of PFKP switches the glucose flux towards PPP, generating NADPH with increased metabolites of oxidative PPP. Functionally, dynamic regulation of PFKP significantly potentiates cancer cell survival under metabolic stress and increases metastatic capacities in vivo. Further, knockdown of PFKP rescues metabolic reprogramming and cell death induced by loss of Snail. Thus, the Snail-PFKP axis plays an important role in cancer cell survival via regulation of glucose flux between glycolysis and PPP.

Original language	English
Article number	14374
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14374
State	Published - 8 Feb 2017

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This work was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2012M3A9B2052523, NRF-2014R1A2A1A05004670, NRF-2016R1E1A1A01942724) funded by the Korea government (MSIP), a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2014R1A6A3A04055110) funded by the Korea government (MOE), and a grant from the National R&D Program for Cancer Control, Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Republic of Korea (1420310). This work was also supported by the by the National Research Council of Science & Technology (CAP-2012-2-KBSI), and the Korea Basic Science Institute (C36705). S.Y. Kim was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Center of Korea (NCC1410670).

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Kim, N. H., Cha, Y. H., Lee, J., Lee, S. H., Yang, J. H., Yun, J. S., Cho, E. S., Zhang, X., Nam, M., Kim, N., Yuk, Y. S., Cha, S. Y., Lee, Y., Ryu, J. K., Park, S., Cheong, J. H., Kang, S. W., Kim, S. Y., Hwang, G. S., ... Kim, H. S. (2017). Snail reprograms glucose metabolism by repressing phosphofructokinase PFKP allowing cancer cell survival under metabolic stress. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14374. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14374

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Snail reprograms glucose metabolism by repressing phosphofructokinase PFKP allowing cancer cell survival under metabolic stress

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