{"title":"Feeding cancer to death - a triad of aromatic acids reduces tumor growth","authors":"Audrey Xavier, Ivan Dikic","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01372-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41418-024-01372-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"31 10","pages":"1239-1241"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-024-01372-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The E3 ligase ASB3 downregulates antiviral innate immunity by targeting MAVS for ubiquitin-proteasomal degradation","authors":"Mingyang Cheng, Yiyuan Lu, Jiarui Wang, Haixu Wang, Yu Sun, Wenhui Zhao, Junhong Wang, Chunwei Shi, Jiawei Luo, Ming Gao, Tianxin Yu, Jianzhong Wang, Jiayao Guan, Nan Wang, Wentao Yang, Yanlong Jiang, Haibin Huang, Guilian Yang, Xin Cao, Dongqin Yang, Chunfeng Wang, Yan Zeng","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01376-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-024-01376-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>E3 ubiquitin ligases are very important for regulating antiviral immunity during viral infection. Here, we discovered that Ankyrin repeat and SOCS box-containing protein 3 (ASB3), an E3 ligase, are upregulated in the presence of RNA viruses, particularly influenza A virus (IAV). Notably, overexpression of ASB3 inhibits type I IFN (IFN-I) responses induced by Sendai virus (SeV) and IAV, and ablation of ASB3 restores SeV and H9N2 infection-mediated transcription of IFN-β and its downstream interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). Interestingly, animals lacking ASB3 presented decreased susceptibility to H9N2 and H1N1 infections. Mechanistically, ASB3 interacts with MAVS and directly mediates K48-linked polyubiquitination and degradation of MAVS at K297, thereby inhibiting the phosphorylation of TBK1 and IRF3 and downregulating downstream antiviral signaling. These findings establish ASB3 as a critical negative regulator that controls the activation of antiviral signaling and describe a novel function of ASB3 that has not been previously reported.</p>","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ido Livneh, Bertrand Fabre, Gilad Goldhirsh, Chen Lulu, Adar Zinger, Yael Shammai Vainer, Maya Kaduri, Aviva Dahan, Tamar Ziv, Avi Schroeder, Yinon Ben-Neriah, Yaniv Zohar, Victoria Cohen-Kaplan, Aaron Ciechanover
{"title":"Inhibition of nucleo-cytoplasmic proteasome translocation by the aromatic amino acids or silencing Sestrin3—their sensing mediator—is tumor suppressive","authors":"Ido Livneh, Bertrand Fabre, Gilad Goldhirsh, Chen Lulu, Adar Zinger, Yael Shammai Vainer, Maya Kaduri, Aviva Dahan, Tamar Ziv, Avi Schroeder, Yinon Ben-Neriah, Yaniv Zohar, Victoria Cohen-Kaplan, Aaron Ciechanover","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01370-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41418-024-01370-x","url":null,"abstract":"The proteasome, the catalytic arm of the ubiquitin system, is regulated via its dynamic compartmentation between the nucleus and the cytoplasm, among other mechanisms. Under amino acid shortage, the proteolytic complex is translocated to the cytoplasm, where it stimulates proteolysis to supplement recycled amino acids for essential protein synthesis. This response is mediated via the mTOR pathway and the lack of the three aromatic amino acids Tyr, Trp, and Phe (YWF). mTOR activation by supplementation of the triad inhibits proteasome translocation, leading to cell death. We now show that tumoral inherent stress conditions result in translocation of the proteasome from the nucleus to the cytosol. We further show that the modulation of the signaling cascade governed by YWF is applicable also to non-starved cells by using higher concentration of the triad to achieve a surplus relative to all other amino acids. Based on these two phenomena, we found that the modulation of stress signals via the administration of YWF leads to nuclear proteasome sequestration and inhibition of growth of xenograft, spontaneous, and metastatic mouse tumor models. In correlation with the observed effect of YWF on tumors, we found – using transcriptomic and proteomic analyses – that the triad affects various cellular processes related to cell proliferation, migration, and death. In addition, Sestrin3—a mediator of YWF sensing upstream of mTOR—is essential for proteasome translocation, and therefore plays a pro-tumorigenic role, positioning it as a potential oncogene. This newly identified approach for hijacking the cellular “satiety center” carries therefore potential therapeutic implications for cancer.","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"31 10","pages":"1242-1254"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-024-01370-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret C. Cummings, David L. Vaux, Andreas Strasser, Ruth Kluck
{"title":"Correction: John F. R. Kerr (1934–2024)","authors":"Margaret C. Cummings, David L. Vaux, Andreas Strasser, Ruth Kluck","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01373-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41418-024-01373-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"31 10","pages":"1389-1389"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-024-01373-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142368729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily J. Lelliott, Jonathan Naddaf, Katherine Ganio, Jessica Michie, Shelly Wang, Lin Liu, Natasha Silke, Antonio Ahn, Kelly M. Ramsbottom, Amelia J. Brennan, Andrew J. Freeman, Shom Goel, Stephin J. Vervoort, Conor J. Kearney, Paul A. Beavis, Christopher A. McDevitt, John Silke, Jane Oliaro
{"title":"Intracellular zinc protects tumours from T cell-mediated cytotoxicity","authors":"Emily J. Lelliott, Jonathan Naddaf, Katherine Ganio, Jessica Michie, Shelly Wang, Lin Liu, Natasha Silke, Antonio Ahn, Kelly M. Ramsbottom, Amelia J. Brennan, Andrew J. Freeman, Shom Goel, Stephin J. Vervoort, Conor J. Kearney, Paul A. Beavis, Christopher A. McDevitt, John Silke, Jane Oliaro","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01369-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-024-01369-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tumour immune evasion presents a significant challenge to the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies. Recent advances in high-throughput screening techniques have uncovered that loss of antigen presentation and cytokine signalling pathways are central mechanisms by which tumours evade T cell immunity. To uncover additional vulnerabilities in tumour cells beyond the well-recognized antigen presentation pathway, we conducted a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen to identify genes that mediate resistance to chimeric-antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, which function independently of classical antigen presentation. Our study revealed that loss of core-binding factor subunit beta (CBFβ) enhances tumour cell resistance to T cell killing, mediated through T cell-derived TNF. Mechanistically, RNA-sequencing and elemental analyses revealed that deletion of CBFβ disrupts numerous pathways including those involved in zinc homoeostasis. Moreover, we demonstrated that modulation of cellular zinc, achieved by supplementation or chelation, significantly altered tumour cell susceptibility to TNF by regulating the levels of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins. Consistent with this, treatment of tumour cells with a membrane-permeable zinc chelator had no impact on tumour cell viability alone, but significantly increased tumour cell lysis by CD8+ T cells in a TNF-dependent but perforin-independent manner. These results underscore the crucial role of intracellular zinc in regulating tumour cell susceptibility to T cell-mediated killing, revealing a novel vulnerability in tumour cells that might be exploited for the development of future cancer immunotherapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Hanel, N. Marchenko, S. Xu, S. Xiaofeng Yu, W. Weng, U. Moll
{"title":"Correction to: Two hot spot mutant p53 mouse models display differential gain of function in tumorigenesis","authors":"W. Hanel, N. Marchenko, S. Xu, S. Xiaofeng Yu, W. Weng, U. Moll","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01366-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41418-024-01366-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"31 10","pages":"1394-1394"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-024-01366-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PHGDH/SYK: a hub integrating anti-fungal immunity and serine metabolism","authors":"Xinyong Zhang, Dongdong Hu, Xiaoyan Sun, Yichun Gu, Yong Zhou, Chuanxin Su, Shi Liu, Caiyan Zhang, Guoping Lu, Qiwen Wu, Aidong Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01374-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-024-01374-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Immune cells modify their metabolic pathways in response to fungal infections. Nevertheless, the biochemical underpinnings need to be better understood. This study reports that fungal infection drives a switch from glycolysis to the serine synthesis pathway (SSP) and one-carbon metabolism by inducing the interaction of spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) and phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH). As a result, PHGDH promotes SYK phosphorylation, leading to the recruitment of SYK to C-type lectin receptors (CLRs). The CLR/SYK complex initiates signaling cascades that lead to transcription factor activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production. SYK activates SSP and one-carbon metabolism by inducing PHGDH activity. Then, one-carbon metabolism supports S-adenosylmethionine and histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation to drive the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. These findings reveal the crosstalk between amino acid metabolism, epigenetic modification, and CLR signaling during fungal infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A chromosome-coupled ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is required for meiotic surveillance","authors":"Ruirui Zhang, Bohan Liu, Yuqi Tian, Mingyu Xin, Qian Li, Xiuhua Huang, Yuanyuan Liu, Li Zhao, Feifei Qi, Ruoxi Wang, Xiaoqian Meng, Jianguo Chen, Jun Zhou, Jinmin Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01375-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-024-01375-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Defects in meiotic prophase can cause meiotic chromosome missegregation and aneuploid gamete formation. Meiotic checkpoints are activated in germ cells with meiotic defects, and cells with unfixed errors are eliminated by apoptosis. How such a surveillance process is regulated remains elusive. Here, we report that a chromosome-coupled ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) regulates meiotic checkpoint activation and promotes germ cell apoptosis in <i>C. elegans</i> meiosis-defective mutants. We identified an F-box protein, FBXL-2, that functions as a core component within the pathway. This chromosome-coupled UPP regulates meiotic DSB repair kinetics and chromosome dynamic behaviors in synapsis defective mutants. Disrupted UPP impairs the axial recruitment of the HORMA domain protein HIM-3, which is required for efficient germ cell apoptosis in synapsis defective mutants. Our data suggest that an efficient chromosome-coupled UPP functions as a part of the meiotic surveillance system by enhancing the integrity of the meiotic chromosome axis.</p>","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foxk1 promotes bone formation through inducing aerobic glycolysis.","authors":"Chungeng Liu, Naibo Feng, Zhenmin Wang, Kangyan Zheng, Yongheng Xie, Hongyu Wang, Houqing Long, Songlin Peng","doi":"10.1038/s41418-024-01371-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-024-01371-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcription factor Foxk1 can regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, metabolism, and promote skeletal muscle regeneration and cardiogenesis. However, the roles of Foxk1 in bone formation is unknown. Here, we found that Foxk1 expression decreased in the bone tissue of aged mice and osteoporosis patients. Knockdown of Foxk1 in primary murine calvarial osteoblasts suppressed osteoblast differentiation and proliferation. Conditional knockout of Foxk1 in preosteoblasts and mature osteoblasts in mice exhibited decreased bone mass and mechanical strength due to reduced bone formation. Mechanistically, we identified Foxk1 targeted the promoter region of many genes of glycolytic enzyme by CUT&Tag analysis. Lacking of Foxk1 in primary murine calvarial osteoblasts resulted in reducing aerobic glycolysis. Inhibition of glycolysis by 2DG hindered osteoblast differentiation and proliferation induced by Foxk1 overexpression. Finally, specific overexpression of Foxk1 in preosteoblasts, driven by a preosteoblast specific osterix promoter, increased bone mass and bone mechanical strength of aged mice, which could be suppressed by inhibiting glycolysis. In summary, these findings reveal that Foxk1 plays a vital role in the osteoblast metabolism regulation and bone formation stimulation, offering a promising approach for preventing age-related bone loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":9731,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death and Differentiation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142131921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}