Metabolic Reprogramming of Mammary Epithelial Cells during TGF-β-Induced Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

Autor: Wan Hua, Sarantos Kostidis, Oleg Mayboroda, Martin Giera, Marten Hornsveld, Peter ten Dijke
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Metabolites, Vol 11, Iss 9, p 626 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 11090626
2218-1989
DOI: 10.3390/metabo11090626
Popis: The cytokine transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) can induce normal breast epithelial cells to take on a mesenchymal phenotype, termed epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). While the transcriptional and proteomic changes during TGF-β-induced EMT have been described, the metabolic rewiring that occurs in epithelial cells undergoing EMT is not well understood. Here, we quantitively analyzed the TGF-β-induced metabolic reprogramming during EMT of non-transformed NMuMG mouse mammary gland epithelial cells using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. We found that TGF-β elevates glycolytic and tricarboxylic acid (TCA)-cycle activity and increases glutaminolysis. Additionally, TGF-β affects the hexosamine pathway, arginine-proline metabolism, the cellular redox state, and strongly affects choline metabolism during EMT. TGF-β was found to induce phosphocholine production. A kinase inhibitor RSM-93A that inhibits choline kinase α (CHKα) mitigated TGF-β-induced changes associated with EMT, i.e., increased filamentous (F)-actin stress fiber formation and N-Cadherin mesenchymal marker expression.
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