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- Title
PINCH-1 promotes Δ<sup>1</sup>-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase expression and contributes to proline metabolic reprogramming in lung adenocarcinoma.
- Authors
Cui, Chunhong; Wang, Jiaxin; Guo, Ling; Wu, Chuanyue
- Abstract
Proline metabolic reprogramming is intimately involved in cancer progression. We recently identified a critical role of PINCH-1, a cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion protein whose expression is elevated in lung adenocarcinoma, in the promotion of proline biosynthesis, fibrosis and lung adenocarcinoma growth. How PINCH-1 promotes proline biosynthesis, however, was incompletely understood. In this study, we show that PINCH-1 promotes the expression of Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase (P5CS), a key enzyme that links glutamate metabolism to proline biosynthesis. Depletion of PINCH-1 from lung adenocarcinoma cells reduced the protein but not mRNA level of P5CS, resulting in down-regulation of the cellular level of P5C and cell proliferation. Treatment of the cells with protease inhibitor leupeptin effectively reversed PINCH-1 deficiency-induced reduction of the P5CS level. At the molecular level, PINCH-1, through its LIM2 domain, physically associated with P5CS in lung adenocarcinoma cells. Re-expression of wild type PINCH-1, but not that of the PINCH-1 LIM2 deletion mutant, in PINCH-1 deficient lung adenocarcinoma cells restored P5CS expression, proline biosynthesis and cell proliferation. Finally, P5CS expression, like that of PINCH-1, is elevated in human and mouse lung adenocarcinoma. Using a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma in which PINCH-1 is conditionally ablated, we show that knockout of PINCH-1 from lung adenocarcinoma effectively reduced the P5CS level in vivo. Our results reveal an important role of PINCH-1 in the promotion of P5CS expression, which likely contributes to proline metabolic reprogramming and consequently lung adenocarcinoma progression.
- Subjects
LUNGS; PROLINE; ADENOCARCINOMA; LABORATORY mice; PROLINE metabolism; PULMONARY fibrosis
- Publication
Amino Acids, 2021, Vol 53, Issue 12, p1875
- ISSN
0939-4451
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00726-021-03050-3