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<p>Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibits glycolytic addiction due to VHL mutation, making it vulnerable to metabolic intervention. While conventional inhibitors targeting core housekeeping glycolytic enzymes show robust antitumor efficacy, their clinical use is limited by on-target systemic toxicity. Here, we identify enolase 2 (ENO2) as an isoform-specific glycolytic vulnerability specific to VHL-deficient ccRCC. Although ENO2 is physiologically redundant (compensated by ENO1) in normal glycolysis, it becomes essential for sustaining ccRCC malignancy via VHL loss-HIF2α-driven glycolytic flux. Targeting ENO2 specifically suppressed glycolysis in VHL-deficient ccRCC cells, reducing their malignancy and enhancing their response to axitinib, doxorubicin, and gemcitabine. Importantly, pharmacological ENO2 blockade displayed superior tumor selectivity compared to traditional glycolysis inhibitors, effectively eliminating VHL-deficient ccRCC cells while sparing VHL-intact normal and malignant cells, despite causing slightly weaker glycolytic suppression. Mechanistic investigations revealed that ENO2 ablation inactivated up to ~78% of VHL loss-induced oncogenic effectors, including a pleiotropic oncoprotein MDK, through dual modulation of lactate metabolism and interferon signaling. Collectively, this work reveals ENO2 as a genotype-specific metabolic dependency in ccRCC, thereby enabling precision glycolytic therapy. Our work also suggests that targeting physiologically redundant metabolic isoenzymes may offer a precision medicine strategy for cancers with defined genetic alterations.</p>

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Targeting enolase isoenzyme 2 enables precision glycolysis inhibition in VHL-mutant renal cell carcinoma

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    2026年7月14日

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  • Jiannan Yao,
  • Xiaona Fan,
  • Huixian Xin,
  • Fuhui Wan,
  • Xichen Dong,
  • Qianqian Sun,
  • Xuying Huang,
  • Heshu Liu,
  • Xiangyu Chen,
  • Yanjun Jia,
  • Haili Qian,
  • Tao Wen,
  • Jian Liu

摘要

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibits glycolytic addiction due to VHL mutation, making it vulnerable to metabolic intervention. While conventional inhibitors targeting core housekeeping glycolytic enzymes show robust antitumor efficacy, their clinical use is limited by on-target systemic toxicity. Here, we identify enolase 2 (ENO2) as an isoform-specific glycolytic vulnerability specific to VHL-deficient ccRCC. Although ENO2 is physiologically redundant (compensated by ENO1) in normal glycolysis, it becomes essential for sustaining ccRCC malignancy via VHL loss-HIF2α-driven glycolytic flux. Targeting ENO2 specifically suppressed glycolysis in VHL-deficient ccRCC cells, reducing their malignancy and enhancing their response to axitinib, doxorubicin, and gemcitabine. Importantly, pharmacological ENO2 blockade displayed superior tumor selectivity compared to traditional glycolysis inhibitors, effectively eliminating VHL-deficient ccRCC cells while sparing VHL-intact normal and malignant cells, despite causing slightly weaker glycolytic suppression. Mechanistic investigations revealed that ENO2 ablation inactivated up to ~78% of VHL loss-induced oncogenic effectors, including a pleiotropic oncoprotein MDK, through dual modulation of lactate metabolism and interferon signaling. Collectively, this work reveals ENO2 as a genotype-specific metabolic dependency in ccRCC, thereby enabling precision glycolytic therapy. Our work also suggests that targeting physiologically redundant metabolic isoenzymes may offer a precision medicine strategy for cancers with defined genetic alterations.