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A role for ATP Citrate Lyase in cell cycle regulation during myeloid differentiation
Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases
  • Jess Rhee, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
  • Lauren A. Solomon, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
  • Rodney P. DeKoter, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2019
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1016/j.bcmd.2019.02.006
Abstract

Differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells into macrophages is accompanied by increased PU.1 concentration and increasing cell cycle length, culminating in cell cycle arrest. Induction of PU.1 expression in a cultured myeloid cell line expressing low PU.1 concentration results in decreased levels of mRNA encoding ATP-Citrate Lyase (ACL) and cell cycle arrest. ACL is an essential enzyme for generating acetyl-CoA, a key metabolite for the first step in fatty acid synthesis and for histone acetylation. We hypothesized that ACL may play a role in cell cycle regulation in the myeloid lineage. In this study, we found that acetyl-CoA or acetate supplementation was sufficient to rescue cell cycle progression in cultured BN cells treated with an ACL inhibitor or induced for PU.1 expression. Acetyl-CoA supplementation was also sufficient to rescue cell cycle progression in BN cells treated with a fatty acid synthase (FASN) inhibitor. We demonstrated that acetyl-CoA was utilized in both fatty acid synthesis and histone acetylation pathways to promote proliferation. Finally, we found that Acly mRNA transcript levels decrease during normal macrophage differentiation from bone marrow precursors. Our results suggest that regulation of ACL activity is a potentially important point of control for cell cycle regulation in the myeloid lineage.

Citation Information
Jess Rhee, Lauren A. Solomon and Rodney P. DeKoter. "A role for ATP Citrate Lyase in cell cycle regulation during myeloid differentiation" Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases Vol. 76 (2019) p. 82 - 90
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rodney-dekoter/12/