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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Blaha ◽  
Gopalakrishnan Ramakrishnan ◽  
Sang-Min Jeon ◽  
Hyunsoo Rho ◽  
Prashanth Bhaskar ◽  
...  

AbstractHexokinase 2 (HK2), a glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the first committed step in glucose metabolism, is markedly induced in cancer cells. HK2’s role in tumorigenesis has been attributed to its glucose kinase activity. However, we uncovered a novel kinase-independent HK2 activity, which promotes metastasis. We found that HK2 binds and sequesters glycogen kinase 3 (GSK3) and acts as a scaffold forming a ternary complex with the regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (PRKAR1a) and GSK3b to facilitate GSK3b phosphorylation by PKA, and to inhibit its activity. Thus, HK2 functions as an A-kinase anchoring protein (AKAP). GSK3b is known to phosphorylate proteins, which in turn are targeted for degradation. Consistently, HK2 increased the level and stability of the GSK3 targets, MCL1, NRF2, and SNAIL. In a mouse model of breast cancer metastasis, systemic HK2 deletion after tumor onset inhibited metastasis, which is determined by the effect of HK2 on GSK3b and SNAIL. We concluded that HK2 promotes SNAIL stability and breast cancer metastasis via two mechanisms: direct modulation of GSK3-activity and SNAIL-glycosylation that decreases susceptibility to phosphorylation by GSK3.



2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoojin Lee ◽  
Hye Jeong Cho ◽  
Han Min Woo

AbstractThe fundamental Embden–Meyerhoff–Paranas (EMP) pathway for sugar catabolism, anabolism, and energy metabolism has been reconstituted with non-oxidative glycolysis (NOG). Although carbon conservation was achieved via NOG, the energy metabolism was significantly limited. Herein, we showed the construction of a hybrid EMP that replaced the first phase of the EMP in Corynebacterium glutamicum with NOG and revealed a metabolic link of carbon and phosphorus metabolism. In accordance with synthetic glucose kinase activity and phosphoketolase on the hybrid EMP, cell growth was completely recovered in the C. glutamicum pfkA mutant strain where the first phase of EMP was eliminated. Notably, we have revealed a phosphate-replenishing pathway that involved trehalose biosynthesis for the generation of inorganic phosphate (Pi) sources in the hybrid EMP when external Pi supply was limited. Thus, the re-designed hybrid EMP pathway with balanced carbon and phosphorus states provides an efficient microbial platform for biochemical production.



Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1201-P
Author(s):  
DALONG ZHU ◽  
YU ZHAO ◽  
CUI TANG ◽  
HU TIANXIN ◽  
YONG-GUO LI ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1195-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Forero ◽  
Mauricio Sánchez ◽  
Adán Chávez ◽  
Beatriz Ruiz ◽  
Romina Rodríguez-Sanoja ◽  
...  

Streptomyces coelicolor mutants resistant to 2-deoxyglucose are insensitive to carbon catabolite repression (CCR). Total reversion to CCR sensitivity is observed by mutant complementation with a DNA region harboring both glucose kinase glkA gene and the sco2127 gene. The sco2127 is located upstream of glkA and encodes a putative protein of 20.1 kDa. In S. coelicolor, actinorhodin production is subject to glucose repression. To explore the possible involvement of both SCO2127 and glucose kinase (Glk) in the glucose sensitivity of actinorhodin production, this effect was evaluated in a wild-type S. coelicolor A3(2) M145 strain and a sco2127 null mutant (Δsco2127) derived from this wild-type strain. In comparison with strain M145, actinorhodin production by the mutant was insensitive to glucose repression. Under repressive conditions, only minor differences were observed in glucose utilization and Glk production between these strains. SCO2127 was detected mainly during the first 36 h of fermentation, just before the onset of antibiotic production, and its synthesis was not related to a particular carbon source. The glucose sensitivity of antibiotic production was restored to wild-type phenotype by transformation with an integrative plasmid containing sco2127. Our results support the hypothesis that SCO2127 is a negative regulator of actinorhodin production and suggest that the effect is independent of Glk.



Microbiology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 156 (5) ◽  
pp. 1527-1537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Pérez-Redondo ◽  
Irene Santamarta ◽  
Roel Bovenberg ◽  
Juan F. Martín ◽  
Paloma Liras

Streptomyces clavuligerus ATCC 27064 is unable to use glucose but has genes for a glucose permease (glcP) and a glucose kinase (glkA). Transformation of S. clavuligerus 27064 with the Streptomyces coelicolor glcP1 gene with its own promoter results in a strain able to grow on glucose. The glcP gene of S. clavuligerus encodes a 475 amino acid glucose permease with 12 transmembrane segments. GlcP is a functional protein when expressed from the S. coelicolor glcP1 promoter and complements two different glucose transport-negative Escherichia coli mutants. Transcription studies indicate that the glcP promoter is very weak and does not allow growth on glucose. These results suggest that S. clavuligerus initially contained a functional glucose permease gene, like most other Streptomyces species, and lost the expression of this gene by adaptation to glucose-poor habitats.



2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 308-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Mulakayala ◽  
Babajan Nawaz Banaganapalli ◽  
C. M. Anuradha ◽  
Suresh Kumar Chitta


Microbiology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 153 (12) ◽  
pp. 4284-4294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Tao Lu ◽  
Zheng-Jiu Yang ◽  
Fang-Yin Peng ◽  
Yi-Ning Tan ◽  
Yong-Qin Tang ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. S229-S230
Author(s):  
Beatriz Ruiz-Villafán ◽  
Romina Rodríguez-Sanoja ◽  
Sergio Sánchez-Esquivel


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