Metabolic determinants of cellular fitness dependent on mitochondrial reactive oxygen species
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Kong, Hyewon; Reczek, Colleen R; McElroy, Gregory S; Steinert, Elizabeth M; Wang, Tim; Sabatini, David; Chandel, Navdeep S; ... Show more Show less
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Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species (mROS) are required for the survival, proliferation, and metastasis of cancer cells. The mechanism by which mitochondrial metabolism regulates mROS levels to support cancer cells is not fully understood. To address this, we conducted a metabolism-focused CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screen and uncovered that loss of genes encoding subunits of mitochondrial complex I was deleterious in the presence of the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant mito-vitamin E (MVE). Genetic or pharmacologic inhibition of mitochondrial complex I in combination with the mitochondria-targeted antioxidants, MVE or MitoTEMPO, induced a robust integrated stress response (ISR) and markedly diminished cell survival and proliferation in vitro. This was not observed following inhibition of mitochondrial complex III. Administration of MitoTEMPO in combination with the mitochondrial complex I inhibitor phenformin decreased the leukemic burden in a mouse model of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Thus, mitochondrial complex I is a dominant metabolic determinant of mROS-dependent cellular fitness.
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2020Department
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
Science Advances
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)