Survival and Proliferation of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Depends on mTOR-regulated Glutamine Uptake and EAAT1 Activity
Stanulovic, V. S.; Reed, M. A. C.; Patani, H.; Potluri, S.; Georgiadou, E.; Roberts, J.; Sarkar, S.; Pratt, G. E.; Jones, A. M.; Gunther, U. L.; Ludwig, C.; Hoogenkamp, M.
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T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is a cancer of the immune system. Approximately 20% of paediatric and 50% of adult T-ALL patients have refractory disease or relapse and die from the disease. To improve patient outcome new therapeutics are needed. With the aim to identify new therapeutic targets, we analysed the metabolic adaptations that T-ALL cells exhibit and found that glutamine uptake is essential for their proliferation. Isotope tracing experiments showed that glutamine fuels aspartate synthesis through the TCA cycle and that glutamine and glutamine-derived aspartate together supply three nitrogen atoms in purines and all but one atom in pyrimidine rings. We show that the glutamate-aspartate transporter EAAT1, which is normally only expressed in the CNS, is crucial for glutamine conversion to nucleotides and that T-ALL cell proliferation depends on EAAT1 function. Through this work, we identify EAAT1 as a novel therapeutic target for T-ALL treatment.
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