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Succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate hydratase: linking mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer

Succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate hydratase: linking mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer The phenomenon of enhanced glycolysis in tumours has been acknowledged for decades, but biochemical evidence to explain it is only just beginning to emerge. A significant hint as to the triggers and advantages of enhanced glycolysis in tumours was supplied by the recent discovery that succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and fumarate hydratase (FH) are tumour suppressors and which associated, for the first time, mitochondrial enzymes and their dysfunction with tumorigenesis. Further steps forward showed that the substrates of SDH and FH, succinate and fumarate, respectively, can mediate a ‘metabolic signalling’ pathway. Succinate or fumarate, which accumulate in mitochondria owing to the inactivation of SDH or FH, leak out to the cytosol, where they inhibit a family of prolyl hydroxylase enzymes (PHDs). Depending on the PHD inhibited, two newly recognized pathways that support tumour maintenance may ensue: affected cells become resistant to certain apoptotic signals and/or activate a pseudohypoxic response that enhances glycolysis and is conveyed by hypoxia-inducible factor. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oncogene Springer Journals

Succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate hydratase: linking mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer

Oncogene , Volume 25 (34) – Aug 7, 2006

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Internal Medicine; Cell Biology; Human Genetics; Oncology; Apoptosis
ISSN
0950-9232
eISSN
1476-5594
DOI
10.1038/sj.onc.1209594
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Abstract

The phenomenon of enhanced glycolysis in tumours has been acknowledged for decades, but biochemical evidence to explain it is only just beginning to emerge. A significant hint as to the triggers and advantages of enhanced glycolysis in tumours was supplied by the recent discovery that succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and fumarate hydratase (FH) are tumour suppressors and which associated, for the first time, mitochondrial enzymes and their dysfunction with tumorigenesis. Further steps forward showed that the substrates of SDH and FH, succinate and fumarate, respectively, can mediate a ‘metabolic signalling’ pathway. Succinate or fumarate, which accumulate in mitochondria owing to the inactivation of SDH or FH, leak out to the cytosol, where they inhibit a family of prolyl hydroxylase enzymes (PHDs). Depending on the PHD inhibited, two newly recognized pathways that support tumour maintenance may ensue: affected cells become resistant to certain apoptotic signals and/or activate a pseudohypoxic response that enhances glycolysis and is conveyed by hypoxia-inducible factor.

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OncogeneSpringer Journals

Published: Aug 7, 2006

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