Glycolytic flux-signaling controls mouse embryo mesoderm development

  1. Hidenobu Miyazawa
  2. Marteinn T Snaebjornsson
  3. Nicole Prior
  4. Eleni Kafkia
  5. Henrik M Hammarén
  6. Nobuko Tsuchida-Straeten
  7. Kiran R Patil
  8. Martin Beck
  9. Alexander Aulehla  Is a corresponding author
  1. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  2. German Cancer Research Center, Germany
  3. University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  4. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  5. University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
  6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany

Abstract

How cellular metabolic state impacts cellular programs is a fundamental, unresolved question. Here we investigated how glycolytic flux impacts embryonic development, using presomitic mesoderm (PSM) patterning as the experimental model. First, we identified fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) as an in vivo sentinel metabolite that mirrors glycolytic flux within PSM cells of post-implantation mouse embryos. We found that medium-supplementation with FBP, but not with other glycolytic metabolites, such as fructose 6-phosphate and 3-phosphoglycerate, impaired mesoderm segmentation. To genetically manipulate glycolytic flux and FBP levels, we generated a mouse model enabling the conditional overexpression of dominant active, cytoplasmic PFKFB3 (cytoPFKFB3). Overexpression of cytoPFKFB3 indeed led to increased glycolytic flux/FBP levels and caused an impairment of mesoderm segmentation, paralleled by the downregulation of Wnt-signaling, reminiscent of the effects seen upon FBP-supplementation. To probe for mechanisms underlying glycolytic flux-signaling, we performed subcellular proteome analysis and revealed that cytoPFKFB3 overexpression altered subcellular localization of certain proteins, including glycolytic enzymes, in PSM cells. Specifically, we revealed that FBP supplementation caused depletion of Pfkl and Aldoa from the nuclear-soluble fraction. Combined, we propose that FBP functions as a flux-signaling metabolite connecting glycolysis and PSM patterning, potentially through modulating subcellular protein localization.

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RNAseq data have been deposited to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under the accession number PRJEB55095.

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  1. Hidenobu Miyazawa

    Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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  2. Marteinn T Snaebjornsson

    German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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  3. Nicole Prior

    School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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  4. Eleni Kafkia

    Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  5. Henrik M Hammarén

    Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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  6. Nobuko Tsuchida-Straeten

    University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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  7. Kiran R Patil

    MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  8. Martin Beck

    Department Molecular Sociology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany
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  9. Alexander Aulehla

    Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Funding

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

  • Kiran R Patil
  • Martin Beck
  • Alexander Aulehla

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

  • Martin Beck

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

  • Alexander Aulehla

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (664726)

  • Hidenobu Miyazawa

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (664726)

  • Hidenobu Miyazawa
  • Henrik M Hammarén

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • Hidenobu Miyazawa

Sigrid Juséliuksen Säätiö

  • Henrik M Hammarén

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (331351713)

  • Alexander Aulehla

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All animals were housed in the EMBL animal facility under veterinarians' supervision and were treated following the guidelines of the European Commission, revised directive 2010/63/EU and AVMA guidelines 2007. All the animal experiments were approved by the EMBL Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (project code: 21-001_HD_AA).

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© 2022, Miyazawa et al.

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  1. Hidenobu Miyazawa
  2. Marteinn T Snaebjornsson
  3. Nicole Prior
  4. Eleni Kafkia
  5. Henrik M Hammarén
  6. Nobuko Tsuchida-Straeten
  7. Kiran R Patil
  8. Martin Beck
  9. Alexander Aulehla
(2022)
Glycolytic flux-signaling controls mouse embryo mesoderm development
eLife 11:e83299.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83299

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