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- Title
Rhythmic glucose metabolism regulates the redox circadian clockwork in human red blood cells.
- Authors
Ch, Ratnasekhar; Rey, Guillaume; Ray, Sandipan; Jha, Pawan K.; Driscoll, Paul C.; Dos Santos, Mariana Silva; Malik, Dania M.; Lach, Radoslaw; Weljie, Aalim M.; MacRae, James I.; Valekunja, Utham K.; Reddy, Akhilesh B.
- Abstract
Circadian clocks coordinate mammalian behavior and physiology enabling organisms to anticipate 24-hour cycles. Transcription-translation feedback loops are thought to drive these clocks in most of mammalian cells. However, red blood cells (RBCs), which do not contain a nucleus, and cannot perform transcription or translation, nonetheless exhibit circadian redox rhythms. Here we show human RBCs display circadian regulation of glucose metabolism, which is required to sustain daily redox oscillations. We found daily rhythms of metabolite levels and flux through glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). We show that inhibition of critical enzymes in either pathway abolished 24-hour rhythms in metabolic flux and redox oscillations, and determined that metabolic oscillations are necessary for redox rhythmicity. Furthermore, metabolic flux rhythms also occur in nucleated cells, and persist when the core transcriptional circadian clockwork is absent in Bmal1 knockouts. Thus, we propose that rhythmic glucose metabolism is an integral process in circadian rhythms. Red blood cells, which do not possess a nucleus, have circadian redox rhythms with incompletely understood regulatory mechanisms. Here the authors show that glucose metabolism plays a crucial role in regulating circadian redox status of human red blood cells.
- Subjects
ERYTHROCYTES; GLUCOSE metabolism; PENTOSE phosphate pathway; METABOLIC regulation; OXIDATION-reduction reaction; MELANOPSIN
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-20479-4