MYC sensitises cells to apoptosis by driving energetic demand

MYC activation can sensitise cells to apoptosis upon glutamine withdrawal. Here the authors show that MYC activation enhances global transcription and translation that creates a metabolic demand, while glutamine limitation causes a metabolic demand and supply imbalance through loss of TCA energetics...

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Main Authors: Joy Edwards-Hicks, Huizhong Su, Maurizio Mangolini, Kubra K. Yoneten, Jimi Wills, Giovanny Rodriguez-Blanco, Christine Young, Kevin Cho, Heather Barker, Morwenna Muir, Ania Naila Guerrieri, Xue-Feng Li, Rachel White, Piotr Manasterski, Elena Mandrou, Karen Wills, Jingyu Chen, Emily Abraham, Kianoosh Sateri, Bin-Zhi Qian, Peter Bankhead, Mark Arends, Noor Gammoh, Alex von Kriegsheim, Gary J. Patti, Andrew H. Sims, Juan Carlos Acosta, Valerie Brunton, Kamil R. Kranc, Maria Christophorou, Erika L. Pearce, Ingo Ringshausen, Andrew J. Finch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32368-z