ArticleeLife2023
PASK links cellular energy metabolism with a mitotic self-renewal network to establish differentiation competence.
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- Multi-omic screening identifies RBMXL3 as a primate-specific RNA-binding protein and candidate regulator of RNA metabolism in human spermatogenesis.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2026Article
- Insights into WDR5: unveiling its functions, regulation, and impact on skeletal muscle.Epigenetics · 2025Review
- Glutamine Promotes Myogenesis in Myoblasts Through Glutaminolysis-Mediated Histone H3 Acetylation That Enhances Myogenin Transcription.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Glutamine-Dependent Slc25a39-Nrf2 Axis Couples Mitochondrial Dynamics with Metabolic Reprogramming to Establish Myogenic Commitment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Structural assembly of the PAS domain drives the catalytic activation of metazoan PASK.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Integrating Physical and Biochemical Cues for Muscle Engineering: Scaffolds and Graft Durability.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Nutrient Signaling-Dependent Quaternary Structure Remodeling Drives the Catalytic Activation of metazoan PASK.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Signal-regulated Unmasking of Nuclear Localization Motif in the PAS Domain Regulates the Nuclear Translocation of PASK.Journal of molecular biology · 2024Article
- Metabolic "Sense Relay" in Stem Cells: A Short But Impactful Life of PAS Kinase Balancing Stem Cell Fates.Cells · 2023Review
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Abstract
Quiescent stem cells are activated in response to a mechanical or chemical injury to their tissue niche. Activated cells rapidly generate a heterogeneous progenitor population that regenerates the damaged tissues. While the transcriptional cadence that generates heterogeneity is known, the metabolic pathways influencing the transcriptional machinery to establish a heterogeneous progenitor population remains unclear. Here, we describe a novel pathway downstream of mitochondrial glutamine metabolism that confers stem cell heterogeneity and establishes differentiation competence by countering post-mitotic self-renewal machinery. We discovered that mitochondrial glutamine metabolism induces CBP/EP300-dependent acetylation of stem cell-specific kinase, PAS domain-containing kinase (PASK), resulting in its release from cytoplasmic granules and subsequent nuclear migration. In the nucleus, PASK catalytically outcompetes mitotic WDR5-anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) interaction resulting in the loss of post-mitotic Pax7 expression and exit from self-renewal. In concordance with these findings, genetic or pharmacological inhibition of PASK or glutamine metabolism upregulated Pax7 expression, reduced stem cell heterogeneity
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