Transient APC/C inactivation by mTOR boosts glycolysis during cell cycle entry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Paul, Debasish; Bolhuis, Derek L.; Yan, Hualong; Das, Sudipto; Xu, Xia; Abbate, Christina C.; Jenkins, Lisa M. M.; Emanuele, Michael J.; Andresson, Thorkell; Huang, Jing; Albeck, John G.; Brown, Nicholas G.; Cappell, Steven D.
• 署名单位: National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI); University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI); Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research; University of California System; University of California Davis; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI); University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• 刊物名称: NATURE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-0836; 1476-4687
• DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09328-w
• 发表日期: 2025-10-02
• 页码: 30686
• 关键词: UBIQUITIN CHAIN ELONGATION; proliferation; degradation; mechanism

摘要

Mammalian cells entering the cell cycle favour glycolysis to rapidly generate ATP and produce the biosynthetic intermediates that are required for rapid biomass accumulation1. Simultaneously, the ubiquitin-ligase anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome and its coactivator CDH1 (APC/CCDH1) remains active, allowing origin licensing and blocking premature DNA replication. Paradoxically, glycolysis is reduced by APC/CCDH1 through the degradation of key glycolytic enzymes2, raising the question of how cells coordinate these mutually exclusive events to ensure proper cell division. Here we show that cells resolve this paradox by transiently inactivating the APC/C during cell cycle entry, which allows a transient metabolic shift favouring glycolysis. After mitogen stimulation, rapid mTOR-mediated phosphorylation of the APC/C adapter protein CDH1 at the amino terminus causes it to partially dissociate from the APC/C. This partial inactivation of the APC/C leads to the accumulation of PFKFB3, a rate-limiting enzyme for glycolysis, promoting a metabolic shift towards glycolysis. Delayed accumulation of phosphatase activity later removes CDH1 phosphorylation, restoring full APC/C activity, and shifting cells back to favouring oxidative phosphorylation. Thus, cells coordinate the simultaneous demands of cell cycle progression and metabolism through an incoherent feedforward loop, which transiently inhibits APC/C activity to generate a pulse of glycolysis that is required for mammalian cell cycle entry.