Histidine is selectively required for the growth of Myc-dependent dedifferentiation tumours in the Drosophila CNS
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Francesca Froldi Panayotis Pachnis Milán Szuperák Olivia Costas Tharindu Fernando Alex Gould Louise Y ChengAbstract
Rewired metabolism of glutamine in cancer has been well documented, but less is known about other amino acids such as histidine. Here, we use cancer models to show that decreasing the concentration of histidine in the diet strongly inhibits the growth of mutant clones induced by loss of Nerfin-1 or gain of Notch activity. In contrast, changes in dietary histidine have much less effect on the growth of wildtype neural stem cells and neural tumours. The reliance of tumours on dietary histidine and also on histidine decarboxylase (Hdc) depends upon their growth requirement for Myc. We demonstrate that Myc overexpression in tumours is sufficient to switch their mode of growth from histidine/Hdc sensitive to resistant. This study suggests that perturbations in histidine metabolism selectively target neural tumours that grow via a dedifferentiation process involving large cell size increases driven by Myc.
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