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<p>Cellular metabolism dynamically adapts to nutrient fluctuations, yet the regulatory mechanisms underlying this plasticity remain incompletely understood. In particular, the adaptive activation mechanism of enoyl-CoA hydratase short-chain 1 (ECHS1), a key mitochondrial enzyme for fatty acid and amino acid catabolism, is poorly characterized. Herein, we identify SUMO1 modification at lysine 128 of ECHS1 as an essential activation switch that drives mitochondrial catabolism and restricts growth of lung cancer cells. Nutrients generating crotonyl-CoA (fatty acids, lysine, tryptophan) stimulate this modification, accelerating crotonyl-CoA oxidation to acetyl-CoA. This metabolic adaptation decreases crotonyl-CoA pools, thereby reducing histone crotonylation (e.g., H2BK20cr and H3K27cr). Conversely, SUMOylation deficiency impairs formation of the catalytic ECHS1 homohexamer, increasing crotonyl-CoA accumulation and histone crotonylation. This epigenetically suppresses oxidative phosphorylation and associated ROS generation while activating PI3K-Akt signaling, promoting lung cancer growth in vitro and in vivo. In lung adenocarcinoma patients, H2BK20cr and H3K27cr levels are elevated in tumor tissues and predict poor survival, highlighting their clinical prognostic significance. Collectively, these findings establish ECHS1 SUMOylation as a nutrient-sensitive activation mechanism for adaptive catabolism and reveal mitochondrial SUMOylation as a critical regulator of nuclear epigenetic reprogramming, defining a metabolite-driven paradigm in cancer epigenetics.</p><p></p>

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SUMOylation activates ECHS1 for adaptive catabolism in lung cancer

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    2026年7月9日

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  • Yalan Chen,
  • Hui Mao,
  • Lili Cai,
  • Qianyu Li,
  • Juan Song,
  • Mingming Zhang,
  • Shanshan Chen,
  • Ziqi Ai,
  • Qiangqiang Xiong,
  • Kexin Liu,
  • Xin Lin,
  • Hongsheng Tan,
  • Tianshi Wang,
  • Qiuju Fan,
  • Yong Zuo,
  • Jianli He,
  • Jinke Cheng,
  • Jun Tu

摘要

Cellular metabolism dynamically adapts to nutrient fluctuations, yet the regulatory mechanisms underlying this plasticity remain incompletely understood. In particular, the adaptive activation mechanism of enoyl-CoA hydratase short-chain 1 (ECHS1), a key mitochondrial enzyme for fatty acid and amino acid catabolism, is poorly characterized. Herein, we identify SUMO1 modification at lysine 128 of ECHS1 as an essential activation switch that drives mitochondrial catabolism and restricts growth of lung cancer cells. Nutrients generating crotonyl-CoA (fatty acids, lysine, tryptophan) stimulate this modification, accelerating crotonyl-CoA oxidation to acetyl-CoA. This metabolic adaptation decreases crotonyl-CoA pools, thereby reducing histone crotonylation (e.g., H2BK20cr and H3K27cr). Conversely, SUMOylation deficiency impairs formation of the catalytic ECHS1 homohexamer, increasing crotonyl-CoA accumulation and histone crotonylation. This epigenetically suppresses oxidative phosphorylation and associated ROS generation while activating PI3K-Akt signaling, promoting lung cancer growth in vitro and in vivo. In lung adenocarcinoma patients, H2BK20cr and H3K27cr levels are elevated in tumor tissues and predict poor survival, highlighting their clinical prognostic significance. Collectively, these findings establish ECHS1 SUMOylation as a nutrient-sensitive activation mechanism for adaptive catabolism and reveal mitochondrial SUMOylation as a critical regulator of nuclear epigenetic reprogramming, defining a metabolite-driven paradigm in cancer epigenetics.