Extended Data Fig. 1: NADK2-deficient cells require proline for cell proliferation.

a, A549 and K562 ∆NADK2 cells stably reconstituted with either empty vector (Vec) or NADK2 were injected subcutaneously into athymic nude mice. Tumour growth curves are shown as average of all tumours from the data shown in Fig. 1c,d. Data are presented as mean ± SEM from 7 tumors (A549) or 3 or 4 tumours (K562). *P < 0.05 for pairwise comparisons calculated using a one-sided Student’s t-test. b, Immunoblots and cell proliferation of wild-type or single cell-derived knockout cells of NADK in HEK-293E cells grown in DMEM with 10% serum. Proliferation rate was assessed 72 h post-plating and normalized to Day 0. c, Relative proliferation rate was assessed in three consecutive days from wild-type or isogenic ∆NADK2 cells stably expressing either empty vector, NADK2 or NADK. Immunoblots for NADK, NADK2 and β-actin are shown. d, Relative proliferation rate as in (b) from isogenic ∆NADK2 HeLa cells stably expressing either empty vector or NADK2. Cells were grown in 10% dialyzed serum or supplemented with oleate (0.1 mM). e, Relative proliferation rate as in (b) from wild-type or ∆NADK2 HeLa cells. Cells were grown in 10% dialyzed serum for 72 hours or supplemented with NAC (5 mM), nucleosides (inosine 0.1 mg/ml uridine, 0.1 mg/ml), non-essential amino acid (NEAA) mixture (1X), pyruvate (10 mM) or aspartate (10 mM). f, Relative proliferation rate as in (b) from isogenic ∆NADK2 K562 cells stably expressing either empty vector or NADK2 and supplemented with the indicated individual non-essential amino acids at concentration present in human plasma-like medium (HPLM). g, Relative proliferation rate as in (b) from isogenic ∆NADK2 HEK-293E cells stably expressing either empty vector or NADK2, and supplemented with the indicated individual non-essential amino acids at 10X concentration present in human plasma-like medium (HPLM). Related to Fig. 1f. h, Relative proliferation rate as in (b) from HCT116 cells with stable shRNA-mediated knockdown of NADK2 grown in the presence or absence of proline (2 mM). i, Normalized peak areas of mitochondrial NAD + (M + 4), NADP + (M + 4) and NADPH (M + 4) from labeling with ¹³C₃-¹⁵N-nicotinamide are shown. ∆NADK2 HEK293E cells stably expressing HA-Mito were stably reconstituted with either empty vector or NADK2. HEK-293E cells expressing (Myc-Mito) were used as a negative control (1-Ctrl). HA-tagged mitochondria were isolated from equal amount of protein for each condition and metabolites were analyzed by targeted LC-MS/MS. Data are presented as the mean ± SD (b-i) from n = 4 of biologically independent samples for (b), n = 3 for (c,g,h,i), n = 12 for (d), n = 3–9 for (e), n = 3–5 for (f) and are representative of at least two independent experiments. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 for comparisons calculated using a two-sided Student’s t-test for (b) and with one-way ANOVA test and Tukey’s post-hoc test for (c-i).

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