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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

The oncoprotein SET promotes serine-derived one-carbon metabolism by regulating SHMT2 enzymatic activity.

Zishan Jiao, Mi Zhang, Jingyuan Ning, Han Yao, Xiaojun Yan, Zhen Wu, Dexuan Wu, Yajing Liu, Meng Zhang, Lin Wang and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Zishan JiaoState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4832-291X
Mi ZhangDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4032-7502
Jingyuan NingState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Han YaoState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Xiaojun YanState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Zhen WuState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Dexuan WuState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Yajing LiuState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5757-2518
Meng ZhangState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.ORCID 0009-0004-5279-5164
Lin WangState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Disease, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Donglai WangState Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases and Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2247-1765

Funding

Beijing Natural Science Foundation Z240014CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciencse 2021-I2M-1-016National Natural Science Foundation of China 82203340National Natural Science Foundation of China 82472687 82073132 82122054State Key Laboratory Special Fund 2060204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer cells frequently reprogram one-carbon metabolic pathways to fulfill their vigorous demands of biosynthesis and antioxidant defense for survival and proliferation. Dysfunction of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes is critically involved in this process, but the precise mechanisms by which cancer cells actively trigger one-carbon metabolic alterations remain incompletely elucidated. Here, by using untargeted metabolomic analysis, we identify the oncoprotein SE translocation (SET) as a key regulator of one-carbon metabolism in cancer cells. SET physically interacts with mitochondrial SHMT2 and facilitates SHMT2 enzymatic activity. Loss of SET profoundly suppresses serine-derived one-carbon metabolic flux, whereas reexpression of ectopic SET leads to the opposite effect. Notably, although the presence of SHMT2 is critical for SET-mediated one-carbon metabolic alterations, the depletion of SHMT2 alone is insufficient to antagonize SET-induced tumor growth, probably due to functional compensation by its cytosolic isozyme SHMT1 upon SHMT2 knockdown. Instead, pharmacological targeting of cellular SHMT (including both SHMT1 and SHMT2) activity results in dramatic suppression of SET-induced tumor growth. Moreover, by using a

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CarbonGlycine HydroxymethyltransferaseSerineAnimalsCell Line, TumorHumansLung NeoplasmsMiceMitochondriaCarbonGlycine HydroxymethyltransferaseSerineSHMT protein, humanenzymatic activityone-carbon metabolismSETSHMT2tumor

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PMID40339130
PMCPMC12088392

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