Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Arginine is an epigenetic regulator targeting TEAD4 to modulate OXPHOS in prostate cancer cells

  • Chia-Lin Chen,
  • Sheng-Chieh Hsu,
  • Tan-Ya Chung,
  • Cheng-Ying Chu,
  • Hung-Jung Wang,
  • Pei-Wen Hsiao,
  • Shauh-Der Yeh,
  • David K. Ann,
  • Yun Yen,
  • Hsing-Jien Kung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22652-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

Read online

Alterations in metabolism and amino acid usage are common in cancer cells. Here, the authors show in prostate cancer cells that arginine globally upregulates nuclear-encoded oxidative phosphorylation genes by altering histone acetylation and retaining TEAD4 in the nucleus to transactivate genes.