Cell StressPub Date : 2020-05-11DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.06.221
Debora Grasso, Luca X Zampieri, Tânia Capelôa, Justine A Van de Velde, Pierre Sonveaux
{"title":"Mitochondria in cancer.","authors":"Debora Grasso, Luca X Zampieri, Tânia Capelôa, Justine A Van de Velde, Pierre Sonveaux","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.06.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.06.221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Warburg effect in the year 2000 occulted for almost a decade the key functions exerted by mitochondria in cancer cells. Until recent times, the scientific community indeed focused on constitutive glycolysis as a hallmark of cancer cells, which it is not, largely ignoring the contribution of mitochondria to the malignancy of oxidative and glycolytic cancer cells, being Warburgian or merely adapted to hypoxia. In this review, we highlight that mitochondria are not only powerhouses in some cancer cells, but also dynamic regulators of life, death, proliferation, motion and stemness in other types of cancer cells. Similar to the cells that host them, mitochondria are capable to adapt to tumoral conditions, and probably to evolve to 'oncogenic mitochondria' capable of transferring malignant capacities to recipient cells. In the wider quest of metabolic modulators of cancer, treatments have already been identified targeting mitochondria in cancer cells, but the field is still in infancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38055237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-04-24DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.05.218
Hans Zischka, Guido Kroemer
{"title":"Copper - a novel stimulator of autophagy.","authors":"Hans Zischka, Guido Kroemer","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.05.218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.05.218","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Toxic copper accumulation causes Wilson disease, but trace amounts of copper are required for cellular and organismal survival. In a recent paper Tsang <i>et al.</i> (Nat Cell Biol, doi: 10.1038/s41556-020-0481-4) demonstrate that copper binds with high affinity to a designated interaction site in the pro-autophagic kinases ULK1 and ULK2. Chelation of copper or genetic deletion of this copper-binding site inhibits autophagy and hence reduces the fitness of KRAS-induced cancers. These findings suggest that copper chelation might constitute a novel therapeutic intervention on autophagy-dependent malignancies.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212532/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37947147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-04-15DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.06.223
Shin-Haw Lee, Sina Hadipour-Lakmehsari, Anthony O Gramolini
{"title":"Towards understanding the role of Receptor Expression Enhancing Protein 5 (REEP5) in cardiac muscle and beyond.","authors":"Shin-Haw Lee, Sina Hadipour-Lakmehsari, Anthony O Gramolini","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.06.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.06.223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sarco-endoplasmic reticulum (SR/ER) is the largest membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells and plays important roles in essential cellular processes, and in development and progression of many cardiac diseases. However, many aspects of its structural organization remain largely unknown, particularly in cells with a highly differentiated SR/ER network. In a recently published study led by Lee <i>et al.</i> (Nat Commun 11(1):965), we reported a cardiac enriched SR/ER membrane protein REEP5 that is centrally involved in regulating SR/ER organization and cellular stress responses in cardiac myocytes. <i>In vitro</i> REEP5 depletion in mouse cardiac myocytes resulted in SR/ER membrane destabilization and luminal vacuolization along with decreased myocyte contractility and disrupted Ca<sup>2+</sup> cycling. Further, <i>in vivo</i> CRISPR/Cas9-mediated REEP5 loss-of-function zebrafish mutants showed sensitized cardiac dysfunction to heart failure induction upon short-term verapamil treatment. Additionally, <i>in vivo</i> adeno-associated viral (AAV9)-induced REEP5 depletion in the mouse demonstrated cardiac dysfunction with dilated cardiac chambers, increased cardiac fibrosis, and reduced ejection fraction. These results demonstrate the critical role of REEP5 in SR/ER organization and function.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278519/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38055234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-03-10DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.04.217
Gina Picchiarelli, Luc Dupuis
{"title":"Role of RNA Binding Proteins with prion-like domains in muscle and neuromuscular diseases.","authors":"Gina Picchiarelli, Luc Dupuis","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.04.217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.04.217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of neuromuscular and muscular diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and several myopathies, are associated to mutations in related RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), including TDP-43, FUS, MATR3 or hnRNPA1/B2. These proteins harbor similar modular primary sequence with RNA binding motifs and low complexity domains, that enables them to phase separate and create liquid microdomains. These RBPs have been shown to critically regulate multiple events of RNA lifecycle, including transcriptional events, splicing and RNA trafficking and sequestration. Here, we review the roles of these disease-related RBPs in muscle and motor neurons, and how their dysfunction in these cell types might contribute to disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37836185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-03-04DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.05.220
Jin-Feng Zhao, Catherine E Rodger, George F G Allen, Simone Weidlich, Ian G Ganley
{"title":"HIF1α-dependent mitophagy facilitates cardiomyoblast differentiation.","authors":"Jin-Feng Zhao, Catherine E Rodger, George F G Allen, Simone Weidlich, Ian G Ganley","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.05.220","DOIUrl":"10.15698/cst2020.05.220","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mitophagy is thought to play a key role in eliminating damaged mitochondria, with diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration exhibiting defects in this process. Mitophagy is also involved in cell differentiation and maturation, potentially through modulating mitochondrial metabolic reprogramming. Here we examined mitophagy that is induced upon iron chelation and found that the transcriptional activity of HIF1α, in part through upregulation of BNIP3 and NIX, is an essential mediator of this pathway in SH-SY5Y cells. In contrast, HIF1α is dispensable for mitophagy occurring upon mitochondrial depolarisation. To examine the role of this pathway in a metabolic reprogramming and differentiation context, we utilised the H9c2 cell line model of cardiomyocyte maturation. During differentiation of these cardiomyoblasts, mitophagy increased and required HIF1α-dependent upregulation of NIX. Though HIF1α was essential for expression of key cardiomyocyte markers, mitophagy was not directly required. However, enhancing mitophagy through NIX overexpression, accelerated marker gene expression. Taken together, our findings provide a molecular link between mitophagy signalling and cardiomyocyte differentiation and suggest that although mitophagy may not be essential <i>per se</i>, it plays a critical role in maintaining mitochondrial integrity during this energy demanding process.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212530/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37947076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.04.216
Didier Raoult, Alimuddin Zumla, Franco Locatelli, Giuseppe Ippolito, Guido Kroemer
{"title":"Coronavirus infections: Epidemiological, clinical and immunological features and hypotheses.","authors":"Didier Raoult, Alimuddin Zumla, Franco Locatelli, Giuseppe Ippolito, Guido Kroemer","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.04.216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.04.216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses. Four human CoVs (HCoVs), the non-severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like HCoVs (namely HCoV 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1), are globally endemic and account for a substantial fraction of upper respiratory tract infections. Non-SARS-like CoV can occasionally produce severe diseases in frail subjects but do not cause any major (fatal) epidemics. In contrast, SARS like CoVs (namely SARS-CoV and Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, MERS-CoV) can cause intense short-lived fatal outbreaks. The current epidemic caused by the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 and its rapid spread globally is of major concern. There is scanty knowledge on the actual pandemic potential of this new SARS-like virus. It might be speculated that SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is grossly underdiagnosed and that the infection is silently spreading across the globe with two consequences: (i) clusters of severe infections among frail subjects could haphazardly occur linked to unrecognized index cases; (ii) the current epidemic could naturally fall into a low-level endemic phase when a significant number of subjects will have developed immunity. Understanding the role of paucisymptomatic subjects and stratifying patients according to the risk of developing severe clinical presentations is pivotal for implementing reasonable measures to contain the infection and to reduce its mortality. Whilst the future evolution of this epidemic remains unpredictable, classic public health strategies must follow rational patterns. The emergence of yet another global epidemic underscores the permanent challenges that infectious diseases pose and underscores the need for global cooperation and preparedness, even during inter-epidemic periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.15698/cst2020.04.216","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37836183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-02-18DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.03.215
Xiaoshan Wu, Songlin Wang
{"title":"Biomechanical stress regulates mammalian tooth replacement.","authors":"Xiaoshan Wu, Songlin Wang","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.03.215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.03.215","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cyclical renewal of integumentary organs, including hair, feathers, and teeth occurs throughout an organism's lifetime. Transition from the resting to the initiation stage is critical for each cycle, but the mechanism remains largely unknown. Humans have two sets of dentitions-deciduous and permanent-and tooth replacement occurs only once. Prior to eruption of the permanent tooth (PT), the successional dental lamina (SDL) of the PT can be detected as early as the embryonic stage, even though it then takes about 6-12 years for the SDL to develop to late bell stage. Little is known about the mechanism by which resting SDL transitions into the initiation stage inside the mandible. As a large mammal, the miniature pig, which is also a diphyodont, was a suitable model for our recent study (EMBO J (2020)39: e102374). Using this model, we found that the SDL of PT did not begin the transition into the bud stage until the deciduous tooth (DT) began to erupt.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7063841/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37753928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-01-20DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.02.213
Christian Hiepen, Jerome Jatzlau, Petra Knaus
{"title":"Biomechanical stress provides a second hit in the establishment of BMP/TGFβ-related vascular disorders.","authors":"Christian Hiepen, Jerome Jatzlau, Petra Knaus","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.02.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.02.213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cardiovascular disorders are still the leading cause for mortality in the western world and challenge economies with steadily increasing healthcare costs. Understanding the precise molecular pathomechanisms behind and identifying players involved in the early onset of cardiovascular diseases remains crucial for the development of new therapeutic strategies. Taking advantage of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in human endothelial cells (ECs), we re-investigated the early molecular steps in a genetic vascular disorder termed pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in our recent study (Hiepen C., Jatzlau J. <i>et al.</i>; PLOS Biol, 2019). Here, mutations in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein type II receptor (BMPR2) prime for the hereditary form (HPAH) with downregulated BMPR2 followed by a characteristic change in SMAD signaling, i.e. gain in both SMAD1/5 and SMAD2/3 responses. Remarkably these cells show increased susceptibility to signaling by TGFβ due to remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and increased biomechanics acting as a secondary stressor for ECs pathobiology. This clearly places BMPR2 not only as a BMP-signaling receptor, but also as a gatekeeper to protect ECs from excess TGFβ signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6997947/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37630156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-01-20DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.02.211
Frank Madeo, Nektarios Tavernarakis, José M Bravo-San Pedro, Guido Kroemer
{"title":"ACBP is an appetite stimulator across phylogenetic barriers.","authors":"Frank Madeo, Nektarios Tavernarakis, José M Bravo-San Pedro, Guido Kroemer","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.02.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.02.211","url":null,"abstract":"Frank Madeo, Nektarios Tavernarakis, José M. Bravo-San Pedro* and Guido Kroemer* 1 Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Humboldtstrasse 50, 8010 Graz, Austria. 2 BioTechMed Graz, Austria. 3 Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Nikolaou Plastira 100, Heraklion 70013, Crete, Greece. 4 Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion 71110, Crete, Greece. 5 Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France. 6 Inserm U1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Sorbonne. Université, Université de Paris, 15 rue de l'école de médecine 75006, Paris, France. 7 Team “Metabolism, Cancer & Immunity”, équipe 11 labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Paris, France. 8 Pôle de Biologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France. 9 Suzhou Institute for Systems Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China. 10 Karolinska Institute, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. # Share senior co-authorship. * Corresponding Authors: Guido Kroemer, E-mail: kroemer@orange.fr; José M. Bravo-San Pedro, E-mail: chemabsp@gmail.com","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6997948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37630155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell StressPub Date : 2020-01-17DOI: 10.15698/cst2020.03.214
Laetitia Maestroni, Julien Audry, Pierre Luciano, Stéphane Coulon, Vincent Géli, Yves Corda
{"title":"RPA and Pif1 cooperate to remove G-rich structures at both leading and lagging strand.","authors":"Laetitia Maestroni, Julien Audry, Pierre Luciano, Stéphane Coulon, Vincent Géli, Yves Corda","doi":"10.15698/cst2020.03.214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15698/cst2020.03.214","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>, the absence of Pif1 helicase induces the instability of G4-containing CEB1 minisatellite during leading strand but not lagging strand replication. We report that RPA and Pif1 cooperate to maintain CEB1 stability when the G4 forming strand is either on the leading or lagging strand templates. At the leading strand, RPA acts in the same pathway as Pif1 to maintain CEB1 stability. Consistent with this result, RPA co-precipitates with Pif1. This association between Pif1 and RPA is affected by the <i>rfa1-D228Y</i> mutation that lowers the affinity of RPA in particular for G-rich single-stranded DNA. At the lagging strand, in contrast to <i>pif1</i>Δ, the <i>rfa1-D228Y</i> mutation strongly increases the frequency of CEB1 rearrangements. We explain that Pif1 is dispensable at the lagging strand DNA by the ability of RPA by itself to prevent formation of stable G-rich secondary structures during lagging strand synthesis. Remarkably, overexpression of Pif1 rescues the instability of CEB1 at the lagging strand in the <i>rfa1-D228Y</i> mutant indicating that Pif1 can also act at the lagging strand. We show that the effects of the <i>rfa1-D228Y</i> (<i>rpa1-D223Y</i> in fission yeast) are conserved in <i>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</i>. Finally, we report that RNase H1 interacts in a DNA-dependent manner with RPA in budding yeast, however overexpression of RNase H1 does not rescue CEB1 instability observed in <i>pif1</i>Δ and <i>rfa1-D228Y</i> mutants. Collectively these results add new insights about the general role of RPA in preventing formation of DNA secondary structures and in coordinating the action of factors aimed at resolving them.</p>","PeriodicalId":36371,"journal":{"name":"Cell Stress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7063842/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37753929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}