Cooperative nutrient accumulation sustains growth of mammalian cells
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Son, Sungmin
Stevens, Mark M.
Chao, Hui Xiao
Weng, Yaochung
Wood, Kris
Vander Heiden, Matthew G.
Hosios, Aaron Marc
Schweitzer, Lawrence David
Thoreen, Carson C
Sabatini, David
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December 2015
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Scientific Reports
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Nature Publishing Group
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Son, Sungmin, Mark M. Stevens, Hui Xiao Chao, Carson Thoreen, Aaron M. Hosios, Lawrence D. Schweitzer, Yaochung Weng, et al. “Cooperative Nutrient Accumulation Sustains Growth of Mammalian Cells.” Scientific Reports 5 (December 1, 2015): 17401.
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The coordination of metabolic processes to allow increased nutrient uptake and utilization for macromolecular synthesis is central for cell growth. Although studies of bulk cell populations have revealed important metabolic and signaling requirements that impact cell growth on long time scales, whether the same regulation influences short-term cell growth remains an open question. Here we investigate cell growth by monitoring mass accumulation of mammalian cells while rapidly depleting particular nutrients. Within minutes following the depletion of glucose or glutamine, we observe a growth reduction that is larger than the mass accumulation rate of the nutrient. This indicates that if one particular nutrient is depleted, the cell rapidly adjusts the amount that other nutrients are accumulated, which is consistent with cooperative nutrient accumulation. Population measurements of nutrient sensing pathways involving mTOR, AKT, ERK, PKA, MST1, or AMPK, or pro-survival pathways involving autophagy suggest that they do not mediate this growth reduction. Furthermore, the protein synthesis rate does not change proportionally to the mass accumulation rate over these time scales, suggesting that intracellular metabolic pools buffer the growth response. Our findings demonstrate that cell growth can be regulated over much shorter time scales than previously appreciated.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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