A dietary pan-amino acid dropout screen <i>in vivo</i> reveals a critical role for histidine in T-ALL.

ABSTRACT: Dietary interventions show therapeutic potential in cancer, but systematic comparisons are lacking. We performed a dietary pan-amino acid dropout screen in an orthotopic model of NOTCH1-driven T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and identified histidine depletion as uniquely antileukemic. Histidine-restricted diets extended survival of leukemic mice in a dose-dependent manner, while remaining well-tolerated. Mechanistically, multiomic profiling revealed that histidine deprivation-induced ribosome stalling activates GCN2 to suppress cholesterol biosynthesis pathways critical for leukemic proliferation. Dietary cholesterol supplementation partially reverted the antileukemic effects of histidine restriction in vivo. These findings couple histidine levels and translational control to ch

SUBMITTER: Mandleywala K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12776171 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature