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HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 16, Issue 24, Pages 3136-3148Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm275
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The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) is a tumor suppressor. Heterozygosity for defective SDH subunit genes predisposes to familial paraganglioma (PGL) or pheochromocytoma (PHEO). Models invoking reactive oxygen species (ROS) or succinate accumulation have been proposed to explain the link between TCA cycle dysfunction and oncogenesis. Here we study the biochemical consequences of a common familial PGL-linked mutation, loss of the SDHB subunit, in a yeast model. This strain has increased ROS production but no evidence of mutagenic DNA damage. Because the strain lacks SDH activity, succinate accumulates dramatically and inhibits alpha-ketoglutarate (alpha KG)-dependent enzyme Jlp1, involved in sulfur metabolism, and alpha KG-dependent histone demethylase Jhd1. We show that mammalian JmjC-domain histone demethylases are also vulnerable to succinate inhibition in vitro and in cultured cells. Our results suggest that any alpha KG-dependent enzyme is a potential target of accumulated succinate in oncogenesis. The possible role that inhibition of these enzymes by succinate may have in oncogenesis is discussed.
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