PDK2-mediated alternative splicing switches Bnip3 from cell death to cell survival.
PDK2-mediated alternative splicing switches Bnip3 from cell death to cell survival.
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10.1083/jcb.201504047
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2015-09-28
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Kirshenbaum LA
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Gang H;Dhingra R;Lin J;Hai Y;Aviv Y;Margulets V;Hamedani M;Thanasupawat T;Leygue E;Klonisch T;Davie JR;Kirshenbaum LA
In hypoxia, the survival property of cancer cells mediated by the glycolytic enzyme PDK2 is obligatorily linked to alternative splicing and generation of a novel isoform of death gene Bnip3, which suppresses mitochondrial injury and promotes survival. Herein we describe a novel survival pathway that operationally links alternative pre-mRNA splicing of the hypoxia-inducible death protein Bcl-2 19-kD interacting protein 3 (Bnip3) to the unique glycolytic phenotype in cancer cells. While a full-length Bnip3 protein (Bnip3FL) encoded by exons 1–6 was expressed as an isoform in normal cells and promoted cell death, a truncated spliced variant of Bnip3 mRNA deleted for exon 3 (Bnip3Δex3) was preferentially expressed in several human adenocarcinomas and promoted survival. Reciprocal inhibition of the Bnip3Δex3/Bnip3FL isoform ratio by inhibiting pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isoform 2 (PDK2) in Panc-1 cells rapidly induced mitochondrial perturbations and cell death. The findings of the present study reveal a novel survival pathway that functionally couples the unique glycolytic phenotype in cancer cells to hypoxia resistance via a PDK2-dependent mechanism that switches Bnip3 from cell death to survival. Discovery of the survival Bnip3Δex3 isoform may fundamentally explain how certain cells resist Bnip3 and avert death during hypoxia.