Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Tankyrase disrupts metabolic homeostasis and promotes tumorigenesis by inhibiting LKB1-AMPK signalling

  • Nan Li,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Shinya Neri,
  • Yuanli Zhen,
  • Lon Wolf R. Fong,
  • Yawei Qiao,
  • Xu Li,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Clifford Stephan,
  • Weiye Deng,
  • Rui Ye,
  • Wen Jiang,
  • Shuxing Zhang,
  • Yonghao Yu,
  • Mien-Chie Hung,
  • Junjie Chen,
  • Steven H. Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12377-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The LKB1/AMPK is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis and is often deregulated in tumours. Here, the authors show that the ribosylation of LKB1 by tankyrase-RNF146 axis results in attenuation of LKB1 pathway activation.