Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Caspase-10 inhibits ATP-citrate lyase-mediated metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming to suppress tumorigenesis

  • Rajni Kumari,
  • Ruhi S. Deshmukh,
  • Sanjeev Das

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12194-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Caspases are most closely associated with cell death, but many have other cellular functions. Here, Das et al. find that upon metabolic stress, caspase-10 cleaves ACLY to regulate metabolic homeostasis and epigenetic reprogramming by altering Acetyl-CoA levels.