Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Translatome analysis reveals altered serine and glycine metabolism in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells

  • Kim R. Kampen,
  • Laura Fancello,
  • Tiziana Girardi,
  • Gianmarco Rinaldi,
  • Mélanie Planque,
  • Sergey O. Sulima,
  • Fabricio Loayza-Puch,
  • Benno Verbelen,
  • Stijn Vereecke,
  • Jelle Verbeeck,
  • Joyce Op de Beeck,
  • Jonathan Royaert,
  • Pieter Vermeersch,
  • David Cassiman,
  • Jan Cools,
  • Reuven Agami,
  • Mark Fiers,
  • Sarah-Maria Fendt,
  • Kim De Keersmaecker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10508-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The ribosomal protein RPL10 is frequently mutated in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). Here, the authors show that it promotes proliferation of T-ALL cells by upregulating the serine biosynthesis enzyme phosphoserine phosphatase which in turn modulates serine and glycine metabolism.