Metabolic reprogramming identifies the most aggressive lesions at early phases of hepatic carcinogenesis

KOWALIK, MARTA ANNA;PERRA, ANDREA;ANGIONI, MARIA MADDALENA;LEDDA, GIOVANNA MARIA;COLUMBANO, AMEDEO
2016-01-01

Abstract

Metabolic changes are associated with cancer, but whether they are just bystander effects of deregulated oncogenic signaling pathways or characterize early phases of tumorigenesis remains unclear. Here we show in a rat model of hepatocarcinogenesis that early preneoplastic foci and nodules that progress towards hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are characterized both by inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and by enhanced glucose utilization to fuel the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). These changes respectively require increased expression of the mitochondrial chaperone TRAP1 and of the transcription factor NRF2 that induces the expression of the rate-limiting PPP enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), following miR-1 inhibition. Such metabolic rewiring exclusively identi es a subset of aggressive cytokeratin-19 positive preneoplastic hepatocytes and not slowly growing lesions. No such metabolic changes were observed during non-neoplastic liver regeneration occurring after two/third partial hepatectomy. TRAP1 silencing inhibited the colony forming ability of HCC cells while NRF2 silencing decreased G6PD expression and concomitantly increased miR-1; conversely, transfection with miR-1 mimic abolished G6PD expression. Finally, in human HCC patients increased G6PD expression levels correlates with grading, metastasis and poor prognosis. Our results demonstrate that the metabolic deregulation orchestrated by TRAP1 and NRF2 is an early event restricted to the more aggressive preneoplastic lesions.
2016
Inglese
7
22
32375
32393
19
Esperti anonimi
internazionale
scientifica
TRAP1, NRF2, HCC, oxidative phosphorylation, pentose phosphate pathway
Kowalik, MARTA ANNA; Guzzo, Giulia; Morandi, Andrea; Perra, Andrea; Menegon, Silvia; Masgras, Ionica; Trevisan, Elena; Angioni, MARIA MADDALENA; Forna ...espandi
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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