Hepcidin sequesters iron to sustain nucleotide metabolism and mitochondrial function in colorectal cancer epithelial cells
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Schwartz, Andrew J.
Goyert, Joshua W.
Solanki, Sumeet
Kerk, Samuel A.
Chen, Brandon
Castillo, Cristina
Hsu, Peggy P.
Do, Brian T.
Singhal, Rashi
Dame, Michael K.
Date Issued
June 2021
Journal
Nature Metabolism
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Schwartz, Andrew J, Goyert, Joshua W, Solanki, Sumeet, Kerk, Samuel A, Chen, Brandon et al. 2021. "Hepcidin sequesters iron to sustain nucleotide metabolism and mitochondrial function in colorectal cancer epithelial cells." Nature Metabolism, 3 (7).
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Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) requires massive iron stores, but the complete mechanisms by which CRC modulates local iron handling are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that hepcidin is activated ectopically in CRC. Mice deficient in hepcidin specifically in the colon tumour epithelium, compared with wild-type littermates, exhibit significantly diminished tumour number, burden and size in a sporadic model of CRC, whereas accumulation of intracellular iron by deletion of the iron exporter ferroportin exacerbates these tumour parameters. Metabolomic analysis of three-dimensional patient-derived CRC tumour enteroids indicates a prioritization of iron in CRC for the production of nucleotides, which is recapitulated in our hepcidin/ferroportin mouse CRC models. Mechanistically, our data suggest that iron chelation decreases mitochondrial function, thereby altering nucleotide synthesis, whereas exogenous supplementation of nucleosides or aspartate partially rescues tumour growth in patient-derived enteroids and CRC cell lines in the presence of an iron chelator. Collectively, these data suggest that ectopic hepcidin in the tumour epithelium establishes an axis to sequester iron in order to maintain the nucleotide pool and sustain proliferation in colorectal tumours.
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Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-021-00406-7
