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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 474-486Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.11.022
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- Fundacion Mutua Madrilena FMM
- FIS [PS09-1387]
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC)
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Nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin, a widely recognized marker of poor cancer prognosis, drives cancer cell proliferation and senescence bypass and regulates incretins, critical regulators of fat and glucose metabolism. Diabetes, characterized by elevated blood glucose levels, is associated with increased cancer risk, partly because of increased insulin growth factor 1 signaling, but whether elevated glucose directly impacts cancer-associated signal-transduction pathways is unknown. Here, we show that high glucose is essential for nuclear localization of beta-catenin in response to Wnt signaling. Glucose-dependent beta-catenin nuclear retention requires lysine 354 and is mediated by alteration of the balance between p300 and sirtuins that trigger beta-catenin acetylation. Consequently beta-catenin accumulates in the nucleus and activates target promoters under combined glucose and Wnt stimulation, but not with either stimulus alone. Our results reveal a mechanism by which high glucose enhances signaling through the cancer-associated Wnt/beta-catenin pathway and may explain the increased frequency of cancer associated with obesity and diabetes.
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