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PGK1 represses autophagy-mediated cell death to promote the proliferation of liver cancer cells by phosphorylating PRAS40

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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1038/s41419-022-04499-0

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81772971, 81201562, 31771068]
  2. Liaoning Provincial Program for Top Discipline of Basic Medical Sciences
  3. Climbing Scholars Supporting Program of Liaoning Province

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Autophagy plays important roles in cell survival and cell death, particularly in tumorigenesis. This study identified a binding interaction between PRAS40 and PGK1, and revealed how PGK1 regulates autophagy and cell proliferation through phosphorylation of PRAS40 and Beclin1. These findings provide new insights into the role of PGK1/PRAS40 signaling in cancer.
Autophagy predominantly promotes cell survival by recycling cell components, while it kills cells in specific contexts. Cell death related to autophagy plays important roles in multiple physiological and pathological situations including tumorigenesis, and the mechanism needs to be defined further. PRAS40 was found to be crucial in various cancers, and phosphorylation was reported to be involved in autophagy inhibition in monocytes. However, the detailed role of PRAS40 in autophagy and the relationship to tumorigenesis remain largely unknown. Herein we screened the binding partners of PRAS40, and found that PRAS40 interacted with Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1). PGK1 phosphorylated PRAS40 at Threonine 246, which could be inhibited by blocking the interaction. Both in vitro and in vivo results revealed that PRAS40 mediated PGK1-induced cell growth. By tracing the mechanism, we found that PGK1 suppressed autophagy-mediated cell death, in which PRAS40 was crucial. Thus PGK1 phosphorylates PRAS40 to repress autophagy-mediated cell death under normoxia, promoting cellular proliferation. The binding of PGK1 to PRAS40 was transferred to Beclin1 under hypoxia, resulting in the increase of Beclin1 phosphorylation. These results suggest a novel model of tumorigenesis, in which PGK1 switches between repressing autophagy-mediated cell death via PRAS40 and inducing autophagy through Beclin1 according to the environmental oxygen level. Our study is anticipated to be able to offer novel insights in understanding PGK1/PRAS40 signaling hyperactivated cancers.

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