Intracellular galectin-3 is a lipopolysaccharide sensor that promotes glycolysis through mTORC1 activation

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How the carbohydrate binding protein galectin-3 might act as a diabetogenic and tumorogenic factor remains to be investigated. Here we report that intracellular galectin-3 interacts with Rag GTPases and Ragulator on lysosomes. We show that galectin-3 senses lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to facilitate the interaction of Rag GTPases and Ragulator, leading to the activation of mTORC1. We find that the lipopolysaccharide/galectin-3-Rag GTPases/Ragulator-mTORC1 axis regulates a cohort of genes including GLUT1, and HK2, and PKM2 that are critically involved in glucose uptake and glycolysis. Indeed, galectin-3 deficiency severely compromises LPS-promoted glycolysis. Importantly, the expression of HK2 is significantly reduced in diabetes patients. In multiple types of cancer including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), galectin-3 is highly expressed, and its level of expression is positively correlated with that of HK2 and PKM2 and negatively correlated with the prognosis of HCC patients. Our study unravels that galectin-3 is a sensor of LPS, an important modulator of the mTORC1 signaling, and a critical regulator of glucose metabolism.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 13(2022), 1 vom: 08. Dez., Seite 7578

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Xing [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Chunyu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xinhua [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Beibei [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiaodi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jiajing [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Dong [VerfasserIn]
Han, Lulu [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Zifan [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Xinyi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jianqiu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shumeng [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Yongfeng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EC 2.7.11.1
Galectin 3
Journal Article
Lipopolysaccharides
Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 15.12.2022

Date Revised 29.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-022-35334-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349940533