Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Enoyl-CoA hydratase-1 regulates mTOR signaling and apoptosis by sensing nutrients

  • Ya-Kun Zhang,
  • Yuan-Yuan Qu,
  • Yan Lin,
  • Xiao-Hui Wu,
  • Hou-Zao Chen,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Kai-Qiang Zhou,
  • Yun Wei,
  • Fushen Guo,
  • Cui-Fang Yao,
  • Xia-Di He,
  • Li-Xia Liu,
  • Chen Yang,
  • Zong-Yuan Guan,
  • Shi-Dong Wang,
  • Jianyuan Zhao,
  • De-Pei Liu,
  • Shi-Min Zhao,
  • Wei Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00489-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Overnutrition has been linked to increased risk of cancer. Here, the authors show that exceeding nutrients suppress Enoyl-CoA hydratase-1 (ECHS1) activity by inducing its acetylation resulting in accumulation of fatty acids and branched-chain amino acids and oncogenic mTOR activation.