Sandoval Silva, Claudia Tonantzi (2025). Catch me if you can: understanding the crosstalk of hypoxia metabolism and chromatin dynamics. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
The crosstalk of metabolism and chromatin plays a central role in cellular homeostasis and the adaptative response to the environment. Hypoxia is a low oxygen condition developed when cells are exposed to oxygen levels below their functional range. These hypoxic conditions generate a concomitant metabolic and transcriptional response characterized by increasing glucose metabolism and reducing TCA cycle activity. Although the cellular response to hypoxia has been extensively characterized, recent studies have revealed a more diversified metabolic adaptation to these low oxygen conditions. Here we study how hypoxia impacts the interplay between chromatin modifications and intracellular metabolite cycling in fibroblasts cultured at 2% O2. Using a multi-omics approach, we found that deficiency of the HIF1α-target PDHK1 - a well-known inhibitor of acetyl-CoA synthesis in mitochondria - rewires use of glucose-derived acetyl-CoA to enhance FA synthesis and diminish H3K27ac. This occurs via a coordinated lipid-specific posttranscriptional response. Taken together, our data identify a new role for PDHK1 in the regulation of acetyl-CoA metabolism and provides further evidence for a close link between histone acetylation and lipid biogenesis.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-749585 | ||||||||
Date: | 2025 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen > MPI for Biology of Ageing | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 22 January 2024 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/74958 |
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