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Acetate Is a Bioenergetic Substrate for Human Glioblastoma and Brain Metastases
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Glioblastomas and brain metastases are highly proliferative brain tumors with short survival times. Previously, using (13)C-NMR analysis of brain tumors resected from patients during infusion of (13)C-glucose, we demonstrated that there is robust oxidation of glucose in the citric acid cycle, yet glucose contributes less than 50% of the carbons to the acetyl-CoA pool. Here, we show that primary and metastatic mouse orthotopic brain tumors have the capacity to oxidize [1,2-(13)C]acetate and can do so while simultaneously oxidizing [1,6-(13)C]glucose. The tumors do not oxidize [U-(13)C]glutamine. In vivo oxidation of [1,2-(13)C]acetate was validated in brain tumor patients and was correlated with expression of acetyl-CoA synthetase enzyme 2, ACSS2. Together, the data demonstrate a strikingly common metabolic phenotype in diverse brain tumors that includes the ability to oxidize acetate in the citric acid cycle. This adaptation may be important for meeting the high biosynthetic and bioenergetic demands of malignant growth.
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“The relevance of acetate as a potential fuel source has also been observed in vivo: in glioblastoma tumors resected from patients, up to half of the intramitochondrial acetyl-CoA pool is derived from circulating acetate (70).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mashimo, T., Pichumani, K., Vemireddy, V., Hatanpaa, K. J., Singh, D. K., Sirasanagandla, S., Nannepaga, S., Piccirillo, S. G., Kovacs, Z., Foong, C., Huang, Z., Barnett, S., Mickey, B. E., DeBerardinis, R. J., Tu, B. P., Maher, E. A., & Bachoo, R. M.
- Affiliations
- Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Children's Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Maher, Elizabeth A.
- Bachoo, Robert M.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 159
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1603-1614
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4374602
- OpenAlex
- W1992524428
- Cited by
- 760
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- 41
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- FWCI
- 19.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
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- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA154843, R01CA157996, P30CA142543)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS065195)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (P41EB015908, EB 015908)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- acetate oxidation, glioblastoma, brain metastases, TCA cycle, acetyl-CoA, ACSS2, acetyl-CoA synthetase 2, glucose oxidation, cancer metabolism, 13C NMR, glutamine metabolism, tumor bioenergetics
- MeSH terms
- Acetates, Acetate-CoA Ligase, Animals, Brain Neoplasms, Citric Acid Cycle, Disease Models, Animal, Glioblastoma, Humans, Neoplasm Metastasis, Glutamic Acid, Mice
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