Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 8, Issue 63, Pages 106693-106706Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.21601
Keywords
breast cancer; tumor metabolism; pentose phosphate pathway; transketolase; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
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- MICINN (European Commission FEDER-Una manera de hacer Europa) [SAF2011-25726, SAF2014-51825-R, SAF2015-70270-REDT, SAF2014-56059-R]
- Agencia Catalana d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) [2014SGR-1017, 2014SGR96]
- ICREA Foundation (Generalitat de Catalunya)
- European Commission (Metaflux) [PITN-GA-2010-264780]
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Programa JAE Predoc)
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The pentose phosphate pathway is a fundamental metabolic pathway that provides cells with ribose and NADPH required for anabolic reactions - synthesis of nucleotides and fatty acids - and maintenance of intracellular redox homeostasis. It plays a key role in tumor metabolic reprogramming and has been reported to be deregulated in different types of tumors. Herein, we silenced the most important enzymes of this pathway - glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and transketolase (TKT) - in the human breast cancer cell line MCF7. We demonstrated that inhibition of G6PD, the oxidative branch-controlling enzyme, reduced proliferation, cell survival and increased oxidative stress. At the metabolic level, silencing of both enzymes reduced ribose synthesis. G6PD silencing in particular, augmented the glycolytic flux, reduced lipid synthesis and increased glutamine uptake, whereas silencing of TKT reduced the glycolytic flux. Importantly, we showed using breast cancer patient datasets that expression of both enzymes is positively correlated and that high expression levels of G6PD and TKT are associated with decreased overall and relapse-free survival. Altogether, our results suggest that this metabolic pathway could be subjected to therapeutic intervention to treat breast tumors and warrant further investigation.
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