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Nucleotide imbalance decouples cell growth from cell proliferation

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
dc.creator Diehl, Frances F
dc.creator Miettinen, Teemu P
dc.creator Elbashir, Ryan
dc.creator Nabel, Christopher S
dc.creator Darnell, Alicia M
dc.creator Do, Brian T
dc.creator Manalis, Scott R
dc.creator Lewis, Caroline A
dc.creator Vander Heiden, Matthew G
dc.date 2023-01-09T17:45:32Z
dc.date 2023-01-09T17:45:32Z
dc.date 2022
dc.date 2023-01-09T17:40:11Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:19:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:19:27Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147019
dc.identifier Diehl, Frances F, Miettinen, Teemu P, Elbashir, Ryan, Nabel, Christopher S, Darnell, Alicia M et al. 2022. "Nucleotide imbalance decouples cell growth from cell proliferation." Nature Cell Biology, 24 (8).
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242528
dc.description <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Nucleotide metabolism supports RNA synthesis and DNA replication to enable cell growth and division. Nucleotide depletion can inhibit cell growth and proliferation, but how cells sense and respond to changes in the relative levels of individual nucleotides is unclear. Moreover, the nucleotide requirement for biomass production changes over the course of the cell cycle, and how cells coordinate differential nucleotide demands with cell cycle progression is not well understood. Here we find that excess levels of individual nucleotides can inhibit proliferation by disrupting the relative levels of nucleotide bases needed for DNA replication and impeding DNA replication. The resulting purine and pyrimidine imbalances are not sensed by canonical growth regulatory pathways like mTORC1, Akt and AMPK signalling cascades, causing excessive cell growth despite inhibited proliferation. Instead, cells rely on replication stress signalling to survive during, and recover from, nucleotide imbalance during S phase. We find that ATR-dependent replication stress signalling is activated during unperturbed S phases and promotes nucleotide availability to support DNA replication. Together, these data reveal that imbalanced nucleotide levels are not detected until S phase, rendering cells reliant on replication stress signalling to cope with this metabolic problem and disrupting the coordination of cell growth and division.</jats:p>
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation 10.1038/S41556-022-00965-1
dc.relation Nature Cell Biology
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Nature
dc.title Nucleotide imbalance decouples cell growth from cell proliferation
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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