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Title:	Arginine starvation kills tumor cells through aspartate exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction
Authors:	Cheng, CT;Qi, Y;Wang, YC;Chi, KK;Chung, Y;Ouyang, C;Chen, YR;Oh, ME;Sheng, X;Tang, Y;Liu, YR;Lin, HH;Kuo, CY;Schones, D;Vidal, CM;Chu, JC;Wang, HJ;Chen, YH;Miller, KM;Chu, P;Yen, Y;Jiang, L;Kung, HJ;Ann, DK
Contributors:	Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research;Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine
Abstract:	Defective arginine synthesis, due to the silencing of argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1), is a common metabolic vulnerability in cancer, known as arginine auxotrophy. Understanding how arginine depletion kills arginine-auxotrophic cancer cells will facilitate the development of anti-cancer therapeutic strategies. Here we show that depletion of extracellular arginine in arginine-auxotrophic cancer cells causes mitochondrial distress and transcriptional reprogramming. Mechanistically, arginine starvation induces asparagine synthetase (ASNS), depleting these cancer cells of aspartate, and disrupting their malate-aspartate shuttle. Supplementation of aspartate, depletion of mitochondria, and knockdown of ASNS all protect the arginine-starved cells, establishing the causal effects of aspartate depletion and mitochondrial dysfunction on the arginine starvation-induced cell death. Furthermore, dietary arginine restriction reduced tumor growth in a xenograft model of ASS1-deficient breast cancer. Our data challenge the view that ASNS promotes homeostasis, arguing instead that ASNS-induced aspartate depletion promotes cytotoxicity, which can be exploited for anti-cancer therapies.
Date:	2018-10-26
Relation:	Communications Biology. 2018 Oct 26;1:Article number 178.
Link to:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0178-4
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Cited Times(WOS):	https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000461126500178
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