Steroid Receptor Coactivator-2 Controls the Pentose Phosphate Pathway through RPIA in Human Endometrial Cancer Cells

Sci Rep. 2018 Sep 3;8(1):13134. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31372-y.

Abstract

Steroid receptor coactivator-2 (SRC-2) is a transcriptional coregulator that modulates the activity of many transcription factors. Levels of SRC-2 are elevated in endometrial biopsies from polycystic ovary syndrome patients, a population predisposed to endometrial cancer (EC). Increased expression of SRC-2 is also detected in neoplastic endometrium suggesting a causal link between elevated SRC-2 expression and the emergence of endometrial disorders that can lead to cancer. Here, we reveal that SRC-2 knockdown reduces EC cell proliferation and anchorage-independence. Additionally, SRC-2 is required to maintain cellular glycolytic capacity and oxidative phosphorylation, processes essential for EC cell proliferation. Importantly, SRC-2 is critical for the normal performance of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). Perturbation of the PPP due to loss of SRC-2 expression may result from the depletion of ribose-5-P isomerase (RPIA), a key enzyme of the PPP. As with SRC-2, RPIA knockdown reduces EC cell proliferation, which is accompanied by a decrease in glycolytic capacity and oxidative phosphorylation. Glucose metabolite tracking experiments confirmed that knockdown of SRC-2 and RPIA downregulates the metabolic rate of both glycolysis and the PPP, highlighting a novel regulatory cross-talk between glycolysis and the PPP modulated by SRC-2.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aldose-Ketose Isomerases / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Aldose-Ketose Isomerases / genetics*
  • Aldose-Ketose Isomerases / metabolism
  • Carbon Isotopes
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Endometrium / metabolism*
  • Endometrium / pathology
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic*
  • Glycolysis / genetics
  • Humans
  • Metabolome / genetics
  • Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 2 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 2 / genetics*
  • Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 2 / metabolism
  • Oxidative Phosphorylation
  • Pentose Phosphate Pathway / genetics*
  • RNA, Small Interfering / genetics
  • RNA, Small Interfering / metabolism

Substances

  • Carbon Isotopes
  • NCOA2 protein, human
  • Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 2
  • RNA, Small Interfering
  • Aldose-Ketose Isomerases
  • ribosephosphate isomerase