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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2019

Phosphoglycolate has profound metabolic effects but most likely no role in a metabolic DNA response in cancer cell lines.

Isabelle Gerin, Marina Bury, Francesca Baldin, Julie Graff, Emile Van Schaftingen, Guido T Bommer

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Isabelle GerinDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Marina BuryDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Francesca BaldinDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Julie GraffDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Emile Van SchaftingenDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Guido T BommerDe Duve Institute and WELBIO, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium guido.bommer@uclouvain.be.ORCID 0000-0001-6898-4884
de Duve Institute · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Repair of a certain type of oxidative DNA damage leads to the release of phosphoglycolate, which is an inhibitor of triose phosphate isomerase and is predicted to indirectly inhibit phosphoglycerate mutase activity. Thus, we hypothesized that phosphoglycolate might play a role in a metabolic DNA damage response. Here, we determined how phosphoglycolate is formed in cells, elucidated its effects on cellular metabolism and tested whether DNA damage repair might release sufficient phosphoglycolate to provoke metabolic effects. Phosphoglycolate concentrations were below 5 µM in wild-type U2OS and HCT116 cells and remained unchanged when we inactivated phosphoglycolate phosphatase (PGP), the enzyme that is believed to dephosphorylate phosphoglycolate. Treatment of PGP knockout cell lines with glycolate caused an up to 500-fold increase in phosphoglycolate concentrations, which resulted largely from a side activity of pyruvate kinase. This increase was much higher than in glycolate-treated wild-type cells and was accompanied by metabolite changes consistent with an inhibition of phosphoglycerate mutase, most likely due to the removal of the priming phosphorylation of this enzyme. Surprisingly, we found that phosphoglycolate also inhibits succinate dehydrogenase with a

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DNA, NeoplasmGlycolatesNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasmsPhosphoric Monoester HydrolasesSuccinate DehydrogenaseDNA DamageHCT116 CellsHumansPhosphorylationDNA, NeoplasmGlycolatesNeoplasm Proteinsphosphoglycolatephosphoglycolate phosphatasePhosphoric Monoester HydrolasesSuccinate DehydrogenaseDNA damage responseglycolysismetabolic regulation

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PMID30670572
PMCPMC6380167
OpenAlexW2911458533

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