期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
卷 78, 期 21-22, 页码 7025-7041出版社
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-021-03958-9
关键词
Glycolysis; Oxidative phosphorylation; Mitochondrial ROS; HCC marker; GEMs
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [WE 5825/2-1, CRC 1039, TP B04, B06, Z01]
- Projekt DEAL
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is challenging to treat due to late diagnosis and multidrug resistance, leading to poor outcomes. Increasing UGCG expression in liver cells affects mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis, decreasing tumor markers and proliferation, indicating varied outcomes in different cancer types with increased GlcCer expression.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most difficult cancer types to treat. Liver cancer is often diagnosed at late stages and therapeutic treatment is frequently accompanied by development of multidrug resistance. This leads to poor outcomes for cancer patients. Understanding the fundamental molecular mechanisms leading to liver cancer development is crucial for developing new therapeutic approaches, which are more efficient in treating cancer. Mice with a liver specific UDP-glucose ceramide glucosyltransferase (UGCG) knockout (KO) show delayed diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced liver tumor growth. Accordingly, the rationale for our study was to determine whether UGCG overexpression is sufficient to drive cancer phenotypes in liver cells. We investigated the effect of UGCG overexpression (OE) on normal murine liver (NMuLi) cells. Increased UGCG expression results in decreased mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis, which is reversible by treatment with EtDO-P4, an UGCG inhibitor. Furthermore, tumor markers such as FGF21 and EPCAM are lowered following UGCG OE, which could be related to glucosylceramide (GlcCer) and lactosylceramide (LacCer) accumulation in glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains (GEMs) and subsequently altered signaling protein phosphorylation. These cellular processes lead to decreased proliferation in NMuLi/UGCG OE cells. Our data show that increased UGCG expression itself does not induce pro-cancerous processes in normal liver cells, which indicates that increased GlcCer expression leads to different outcomes in different cancer types. Graphic abstract
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