Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Tyrosine phosphorylation activates 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and promotes tumor growth and radiation resistance

  • Ruilong Liu,
  • Wenfeng Li,
  • Bangbao Tao,
  • Xiongjun Wang,
  • Zhuo Yang,
  • Yajuan Zhang,
  • Chenyao Wang,
  • Rongzhi Liu,
  • Hong Gao,
  • Ji Liang,
  • Weiwei Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08921-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase is commonly upregulated in cancers. Here, the authors show that activation of EGFR induces phosphorylation of this enzyme at Y481 to activate the pentose phosphate pathway, which consequently reduces ROS and accelerates DNA synthesis to promote tumor growth and radioresistance.