Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

MYC sensitises cells to apoptosis by driving energetic demand

  • Joy Edwards-Hicks,
  • Huizhong Su,
  • Maurizio Mangolini,
  • Kubra K. Yoneten,
  • Jimi Wills,
  • Giovanny Rodriguez-Blanco,
  • Christine Young,
  • Kevin Cho,
  • Heather Barker,
  • Morwenna Muir,
  • Ania Naila Guerrieri,
  • Xue-Feng Li,
  • Rachel White,
  • Piotr Manasterski,
  • Elena Mandrou,
  • Karen Wills,
  • Jingyu Chen,
  • Emily Abraham,
  • Kianoosh Sateri,
  • Bin-Zhi Qian,
  • Peter Bankhead,
  • Mark Arends,
  • Noor Gammoh,
  • Alex von Kriegsheim,
  • Gary J. Patti,
  • Andrew H. Sims,
  • Juan Carlos Acosta,
  • Valerie Brunton,
  • Kamil R. Kranc,
  • Maria Christophorou,
  • Erika L. Pearce,
  • Ingo Ringshausen,
  • Andrew J. Finch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32368-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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MYC activation can sensitise cells to apoptosis upon glutamine withdrawal. Here the authors show that MYC activation enhances global transcription and translation that creates a metabolic demand, while glutamine limitation causes a metabolic demand and supply imbalance through loss of TCA energetics and thus, sensitises cells to apoptosis.