Transcriptional regulators of the amino acid response pathway in leukemia
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE145783 | GEO | 2020/03/31
REPOSITORIES: GEO
Similar Datasets
Project description:The TP53 tumor suppressor is frequently altered in lethal, castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, to date there are no effective treatments that specifically target TP53 alterations. Using transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses, we show here that TP53-altered prostate cancer (PCa) exhibits an increased dependency on asparagine and overexpresses asparagine synthetase (ASNS, the enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of asparagine). Mechanistically, loss/mutation of TP53 transcriptionally activate ASNS expression, directly as well as via ATF4, driving de novo asparagine biosynthesis to support CRPC growth. TP53-altered CRPC cells are sensitive to asparagine restriction by knockdown of ASNS and L-asparaginase treatment to deplete the intracellular and extracellular sources of asparagine respectively. This effect was rescued by asparagine addition. Notably, pharmacological inhibition of intracellular asparagine biosynthesis using a glutaminase (GLS) inhibitor and depletion of extracellular asparagine with L-asparaginase significantly reduced asparagine production and effectively impaired CRPC growth. This study highlights the significance of ASNS-mediated metabolic adaptation as a synthetic vulnerability in CRPC with TP53 alterations, providing a rationale for co-targeting intracellular and extracellular asparagine production to treat these lethal prostate cancers.
2022-10-11 | GSE215153 | GEO
Project description:The TP53 tumor suppressor is frequently altered in lethal, castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, to date there are no effective treatments that specifically target TP53 alterations. Using transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses, we show here that TP53-altered prostate cancer (PCa) exhibits an increased dependency on asparagine and overexpresses asparagine synthetase (ASNS, the enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of asparagine). Mechanistically, loss/mutation of TP53 transcriptionally activate ASNS expression, directly as well as via ATF4, driving de novo asparagine biosynthesis to support CRPC growth. TP53-altered CRPC cells are sensitive to asparagine restriction by knockdown of ASNS and L-asparaginase treatment to deplete the intracellular and extracellular sources of asparagine respectively. This effect was rescued by asparagine addition. Notably, pharmacological inhibition of intracellular asparagine biosynthesis using a glutaminase (GLS) inhibitor and depletion of extracellular asparagine with L-asparaginase significantly reduced asparagine production and effectively impaired CRPC growth. This study highlights the significance of ASNS-mediated metabolic adaptation as a synthetic vulnerability in CRPC with TP53 alterations, providing a rationale for co-targeting intracellular and extracellular asparagine production to treat these lethal prostate cancers.
2024-02-29 | GSE255000 | GEO
Project description:Glutamine is a key nutrient for tumor cells that supports nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis, replenishes the TCA cycle intermediates and contributes to redox metabolism. We identified oncogenic KRAS as a critical regulator of the response to glutamine deprivation in NSCLC. Full activation of the ATF4 stress response pathway is dependent on expression of NRF2 downstream of oncogenic KRAS in NSCLC. Through this mechanism, KRAS alters amino acid uptake and metabolism and sustains mTORC1 signaling during nutrient stress. Furthermore, we identified regulation of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) as a key effect of oncogenic KRAS signaling via ATF4 during glutamine deprivation, and a potential therapeutic target in KRAS mutant NSCLC.
2017-12-30 | GSE81643 | GEO
Project description:Glutamine is a key nutrient for tumor cells that supports nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis, replenishes the TCA cycle intermediates and contributes to redox metabolism. We identified oncogenic KRAS as a critical regulator of the response to glutamine deprivation in NSCLC. Full activation of the ATF4 stress response pathway is dependent on expression of NRF2 downstream of oncogenic KRAS in NSCLC. Through this mechanism, KRAS alters amino acid uptake and metabolism and sustains mTORC1 signaling during nutrient stress. Furthermore, we identified regulation of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) as a key effect of oncogenic KRAS signaling via ATF4 during glutamine deprivation, and a potential therapeutic target in KRAS mutant NSCLC.
2017-12-30 | GSE81642 | GEO
Project description:Glutamine is a key nutrient for tumor cells that supports nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis, replenishes the TCA cycle intermediates and contributes to redox metabolism. We identified oncogenic KRAS as a critical regulator of the response to glutamine deprivation in NSCLC. Full activation of the ATF4 stress response pathway is dependent on expression of NRF2 downstream of oncogenic KRAS in NSCLC. Through this mechanism, KRAS alters amino acid uptake and metabolism and sustains mTORC1 signaling during nutrient stress. Furthermore, we identified regulation of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) as a key effect of oncogenic KRAS signaling via ATF4 during glutamine deprivation, and a potential therapeutic target in KRAS mutant NSCLC.
2017-12-30 | GSE81641 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the genomic and epigenetic mechanisms of drug resistance in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is critical for further improving treatment. The role of transcriptomic response in conferring resistance to l-asparaginase (LASP) is poorly understood, beyond asparagine synthetase (ASNS). We defined reproducible LASP response genes in LASP resistant and sensitive ALL cells lines as well as primary leukemia samples from newly diagnosed patients. Defining ATF4 target genes in ALL cell lines using ChIP-seq revealed 25% of genes that changed expression after LASP treatment were direct targets of the ATF4 transcription factor. SLC7A11 was found to be a response gene in cell lines and patient samples as well as a direct target of ATF4. SLC7A11 was also one of only 2.4% of response genes with basal level gene expression that also correlated with LASP ex vivo resistance in primary leukemia cells. Experiments using chemical inhibition of SLC7A11 with sulfasalazine, gene overexpression, and partial gene knockout recapitulated LASP resistance or sensitivity in ALL cell lines. These findings show the importance of assessing changes in gene expression following treatment with antileukemic agent for their association with drug resistance and highlight that many response genes may not differ in their basal expression in drug resistant leukemia cells.
2022-04-15 | GSE174499 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the genomic and epigenetic mechanisms of drug resistance in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is critical for further improving treatment. The role of transcriptomic response in conferring resistance to l-asparaginase (LASP) is poorly understood, beyond asparagine synthetase (ASNS). We defined reproducible LASP response genes in LASP resistant and sensitive ALL cells lines as well as primary leukemia samples from newly diagnosed patients. Defining ATF4 target genes in ALL cell lines using ChIP-seq revealed 25% of genes that changed expression after LASP treatment were direct targets of the ATF4 transcription factor. SLC7A11 was found to be a response gene in cell lines and patient samples as well as a direct target of ATF4. SLC7A11 was also one of only 2.4% of response genes with basal level gene expression that also correlated with LASP ex vivo resistance in primary leukemia cells. Experiments using chemical inhibition of SLC7A11 with sulfasalazine, gene overexpression, and partial gene knockout recapitulated LASP resistance or sensitivity in ALL cell lines. These findings show the importance of assessing changes in gene expression following treatment with antileukemic agent for their association with drug resistance and highlight that many response genes may not differ in their basal expression in drug resistant leukemia cells.
2022-04-15 | GSE174498 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the genomic and epigenetic mechanisms of drug resistance in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is critical for further improving treatment. The role of transcriptomic response in conferring resistance to l-asparaginase (LASP) is poorly understood, beyond asparagine synthetase (ASNS). We defined reproducible LASP response genes in LASP resistant and sensitive ALL cells lines as well as primary leukemia samples from newly diagnosed patients. Defining ATF4 target genes in ALL cell lines using ChIP-seq revealed 25% of genes that changed expression after LASP treatment were direct targets of the ATF4 transcription factor. SLC7A11 was found to be a response gene in cell lines and patient samples as well as a direct target of ATF4. SLC7A11 was also one of only 2.4% of response genes with basal level gene expression that also correlated with LASP ex vivo resistance in primary leukemia cells. Experiments using chemical inhibition of SLC7A11 with sulfasalazine, gene overexpression, and partial gene knockout recapitulated LASP resistance or sensitivity in ALL cell lines. These findings show the importance of assessing changes in gene expression following treatment with antileukemic agent for their association with drug resistance and highlight that many response genes may not differ in their basal expression in drug resistant leukemia cells.
2022-04-15 | GSE200830 | GEO
Project description:Germinal centre (GC) B cells proliferate at some of the highest rates of any mammalian cell. Yet the metabolic processes which enable this are poorly understood. We performed integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic profiling of GC B cells, and found that asparagine metabolism is highly upregulated. Asparagine is conditionally essential to B cells, and its synthetic enzyme, asparagine synthetase (ASNS) is markedly upregulated following their activation, through the integrated stress response sensor general control non-derepressible 2 (GCN2). When Asns is deleted, B cell survival in low asparagine conditions is severely impaired. Using stable isotope tracing, we found that metabolic adaptation to the absence of asparagine requires ASNS, and that the synthesis of nucleotides is particularly sensitive to asparagine deprivation. Conditional deletion of Asns in B cells selectively impairs GC formation, associated with a reduction in RNA synthesis rates. Finally, removal of environmental asparagine by asparaginase was found to also severely compromise the GC reaction.
2024-04-03 | GSE228845 | GEO
Project description:The integrated stress response (ISR) is a conserved pathway which is activated by cells that are exposed to stress. In lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), activation of the ATF4 branch of the ISR by particular oncogenic mutations has been linked to the regulation of amino acid metabolism. In the present study, we provide evidence for ATF4 activation across multiple stages and molecular subtypes of human LUAD. In response to extracellular amino acid limitation, LUAD cells with diverse genotypes broadly induce ATF4 in an eIF2α dependent manner, which can be blocked pharmacologically using the integrated stress response inhibitor (ISRIB). Although suppressing eIF2α or ATF4 can trigger different biological consequences, adaptive cell cycle progression and cell migration are particularly sensitive to inhibition of the ISR. These phenotypes specifically require the ATF4 target gene asparagine synthetase (ASNS), which maintains protein translation independently of the mTOR/PI3K pathway. Moreover, NRF2 protein levels and oxidative stress can be modulated by the ISR downstream of ASNS. Finally, we demonstrate that the ISR via ASNS controls the biosynthesis of select proteins, including the cell cycle regulator cyclin B1, which are associated with poor LUAD patient prognosis. Our findings uncover new regulatory layers of the ISR pathway and its control of proteostasis in lung cancer cells as they adapt to metabolic barriers during tumor progression.
2019-10-23 | GSE126232 | GEO