Isoleucine and valine promote prostate cancer progression via propionyl-CoA-mediated cholesterol synthesis and storage
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Project description:Cholesterol performs multiple essential roles in cells. Enhanced cholesterol synthesis and storage in lipid droplets have been linked to cancer aggressiveness, particularly in lipid-rich and hormone-sensitive cancers such as prostate cancer . Cholesterol anabolism and catabolism are finely regulated in tumor cells in response to various nutritional states. Mitochondria have increasingly been recognized as a signal transduction organelle, particularly concerning metabolites derived from mitochondrial activity. The link between mitochondrial regulation and cholesterol synthesis remains inadequately understood. Here, we show that propionyl-CoA promotes cholesterol synthesis, storage, and further progression in prostate cancer cells. We found that propionyl-CoA, mainly produced by isoleucine and valine metabolism in the mitochondria, can translocate through the mitochondrial membrane and serves as a substrate for modifying cleaved SREBP2, stabilizing it and thereby promoting cholesterol synthesis and storage in lipid droplets. This process facilitates cancer metastasis and castration resistant partially through enhancing androgen synthesis in prostate cancer cells. Our results demonstrate that branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism and propionate metabolism in mitochondria are involved in the regulation of cholesterol synthesis and utilization through metabolite-mediated protein modification. We anticipate that our findings provide a critical link between amino acid metabolism and cholesterol anabolism, highlighting a mechanism that plays a crucial role in the development of castration resistance in prostate cancer patients. This study offers a theoretical rationale for targeting the production of propionyl-CoA, particularly through the metabolism of isoleucine and valine, as an effective strategy to inhibit cholesterol synthesis and its related diseases.
2025-07-11 | GSE272086 | GEO
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2019-11-19 | GSE136753 | GEO
Project description:Abstract: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is associated with a disturbed metabolism in liver and excessive accumulation of ectopic fat. Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) may beneficially modulate hepatic lipids, however it remains unclear whether individual BCAAs can attenuate already established NASH and oxidative-inflammatory stress associated with it. Therefore, mice were first put on a run-in fast food diet (FFD) for 26 weeks, these obese mice were then treated with individual BCAAs valine or isoleucine (3% of FFD) for another 12 weeks and compared to FFD controls. Valine and isoleucine treatment did not affect obesity, dyslipidemia, gut permeability or fecal fatty acid excretion, although significantly reduced hyperinsulinemia compared with FFD. Valine and isoleucine significantly reduced ALT, CK-18M30, and liver steatosis with a particularly pronounced effect on the microvesicular component (-61% by valine and -71% by isoleucine). Hepatic 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) immunoreactivity, a marker for oxidative stress-induced lipid peroxidation, was also significantly decreased. Functional genomics analysis demonstrated that valine and isoleucine upregulated BCAA metabolism, deactivated master regulators of anabolic pathways related to steatosis (e.g. SREBPF1) and activated master regulators of mitochondrial biogenesis (e.g. PPARGC1a) and lipid catabolism (e.g. ACOX1, AMPK). The correction of critical metabolic pathways by valine and isoleucine was accompanied by a significant decrease of liver inflammation, and suppression of many FFD-stimulated cytokine and chemokine pathways including IL-1β, TNFα and CCR2 signaling. In conclusion, the dietary intervention with either valine or isoleucine corrected multiple metabolic processes in liver and reduced steatosis and inflammation with profound effects on oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways. Methods: Putative antifibrotic effects of butyrate were studied in Ldlr-/-.Leiden mice fed an obesogenic NASH-inducing diet (HFD) containing 2.5% (w/w) butyrate for 38 weeks and compared to an HFD control group. Antifibrotic mechanisms of butyrate were further investigated in TGF-β-stimulated primary human hepatic stellate cells (HSC). Results: HFD-fed mice developed obesity, insulin resistance, increased levels of plasma leptin, adipose tissue inflammation, gut permeability, dysbiosis and NASH-associated fibrosis. Butyrate corrected hyperinsulinemia, lowered plasma leptin levels and attenuated adipose tissue inflammation, without affecting gut permeability or microbiota composition. Butyrate lowered plasma ALT and CK-18M30 and attenuated hepatic steatosis and inflammation. Butyrate inhibited fibrosis development as demonstrated by decreased hepatic collagen content and Sirius-red-positive area. In TGF-β-stimulated HSC, butyrate dose-dependently reduced collagen deposition and decreased procollagen1α1 and PAI-1 protein expression. Transcriptomic analysis and subsequent pathway and upstream regulator analysis revealed deactivation of specific non-canonical TGF-β signaling pathways RhoA/Rock and PI3K/AKT and other important pro-fibrotic regulators (e.g. YAP/TAZ and MYC) by butyrate, providing a potential rationale for its antifibrotic effects. Conclusions: Butyrate protects against the development of obesity and insulin resistance-associated NASH and liver fibrosis. These antifibrotic effects are at least in part attributable to a direct effect on collagen production in hepatic stellate cells, as a result of inhibiting non-canonical TGF-β signaling.
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Project description:Macrophages are a protective replicative niche for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) but can kill the infecting bacterium when appropriately activated. To identify mechanisms of clearance, we compared bacterial restriction by human macrophages after treatment with 26 compounds, including some currently in clinical trials for tuberculosis. All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), an active metabolite of vitamin A, drove the greatest increase in Mtb control. Bacterial clearance was transcriptionally and functionally associated with changes in macrophage cholesterol trafficking and lipid metabolism. To determine how these macrophage changes affected bacterial control, we performed the first Mtb CRISPR interference screen in an infection model, identifying Mtb genes specifically required to survive in ATRA-activated macrophages. These data showed that ATRA treatment starves Mtb of cholesterol and the downstream metabolite propionyl-CoA. Supplementation with sources of propionyl-CoA, including cholesterol, abrogated the restrictive effect of ATRA. This work demonstrates that targeting the coupled metabolism of Mtb and the macrophage improves control of infection, and that it is possible to genetically map the mode of bacterial death using CRISPR interference.
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Project description:2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is a persistent environmental contaminant which induces diverse biological and toxic effects, including the reprograming of intermediate metabolism, mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR). Targeted LC-MS analysis of hepatic extracts from mice gavaged with TCDD every 4 days for 28 days detected an increase in S-(2-carboxyethyl)-L-cysteine, a conjugate produced following the spontaneous reaction between the sulfhydryl group of cysteine and highly reactive acrylyl-CoA, an intermediate in the cobalamin (Cbl)-independent β–oxidation-like metabolism of propionyl-CoA. In addition to repressing genes in both the canonical Cbl-dependent carboxylase and the alternate Cbl-independent β–oxidation-like pathways at 30 µg/kg TCDD, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MUT) activity was inhibited at lower doses. Moreover, TCDD decreased serum Cbl levels and hepatic cobalt levels while eliciting negligible effects on gene expression associated with Cbl absorption, transport, trafficking, or the derivatization to 5’-deoxy-adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl), the required MUT cofactor. In addition to inducing Acod1 that encodes for aconitate decarboxylase 1, the enzyme responsible for the decarboxylation cis-aconitate to itaconate, TCDD also dose-dependently increased itaconate levels in hepatic extracts. MUT inhibition is consistent with itaconate activation to itaconyl-CoA, a MUT suicide inactivator that adducts AdoCbl, that in turn, inhibits MUT activity and reduces Cbl levels. Collectively, these results suggest the decrease in MUT activity is due to Cbl depletion following TCDD treatment that redirected propionyl-CoA metabolism to the alternate Cbl-independent β–oxidation-like pathway. The resulting hepatic accumulation of acrylyl-CoA likely contributes to TCDD-elicited hepatotoxicity and the multi-hit progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis.
2022-08-05 | GSE203302 | GEO
Project description:For the first time in Lactococcus lactis, amino acid starvation response was characterized. The natural imposition of isoleucine starvation, by its consumption during growth, associated to transcript profiling, allowed defining exhaustively this stress stimulon. It consisted of a general induction of nitrogen metabolism (amino acid biosynthesis and transport, proteolytic system and proteases), a strong repression of genes encoding major physiological activities (translation, transcription, carbon metabolism, purine and pyrimidine biosynthesis and fatty acid metabolism) and the induction of unexpected cross responses to acid, osmotic and oxidative stresses. Keywords: stress response, time course Isoleucine starvation was imposed by the consumption of this amino acid during the growth of Lactococcus lactis IL1403 on ILV0.1 medium (CDM with ten-fold reduced concentrations of isoleucine, leucine and valine) and under controlled conditions (30 °C, pH 6.6, nitrogen atmosphere). Cell samples were harvested in exponential phase and after 30 min, 1.7 h and 3.5 h of isoleucine starvation. Total RNA was extracted from these samples and radiolabelled cDNA were prepared and hybridized on nylon arrays. 2053 amplicons specific of Lactococcus lactis IL1403 genes were spotted twice on the array. The 4 time-points were analyzed simultaneously and 3 independent repetitions were performed.
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