Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2485837
Athira Jyothy, Julfequar Hussain, Sharanya C S, Vineetha Radhakrishnan Chandraprabha, Madhumathy G Nair, Smreti Vasudevan, Hariharan Sreedharan, Betty Abraham, Tessy Thomas Maliekal, Kathiresan Natarajan, Suparna Sengupta
{"title":"α-Fodrin-CENP-E interaction is critical for pancreatic cancer progression and drug response.","authors":"Athira Jyothy, Julfequar Hussain, Sharanya C S, Vineetha Radhakrishnan Chandraprabha, Madhumathy G Nair, Smreti Vasudevan, Hariharan Sreedharan, Betty Abraham, Tessy Thomas Maliekal, Kathiresan Natarajan, Suparna Sengupta","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2485837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2485837","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>α-Fodrin, a known scaffolding protein for cytoskeleton stabilization, performs various functions including cell adhesion, cell motility, DNA repair and apoptosis. Based on our previous results revealing its role in mitosis in glioblastoma, we have examined its effect in pancreatic cancer, which is often linked to mitotic aberrations including aneuploidy and chromosome instability. Here, we show that the expression of α-Fodrin increases in pancreatic adenocarcinoma tissues compared to its normal counterpart, suggesting its tumor promoting role. shRNA-mediated knock-down of α-Fodrin significantly reduces the xenograft growth in immunocompromised mice underscoring the importance of α-Fodrin in tumor progression. CENP-E (centromere-associated protein E) is a motor protein essential for chromosomal alignment and segregation during mitosis. We have found that α-Fodrin interacts with CENP-E to recruit it to the kinetochore and depletion of α-Fodrin has a crucial role in controlling aneuploidy. As these mitotic defects can lead to apoptosis, we have further evaluated the activation of possible upstream pathways. Paclitaxel, a chemotherapeutic agent that stabilizes microtubules, disrupts mitosis and induces apoptosis. We found that Paclitaxel triggered stronger activation of JNK, ERK, and P38 MAPKs, altered BCL2/BAX ratios, cytochrome C release causing increased apoptosis in α-Fodrin knockdown cells compared to cells with wild-type α-Fodrin. This enhanced sensitivity to paclitaxel is consistent with improved survival in pancreatic cancer patients with low α-Fodrin (<i>SPTAN1</i>) and low CENP-E expression compared to poor prognosis with high expressions of both the genes. Taken together, this study provides the molecular mechanism by which α-Fodrin - CENP-E axis regulates pancreatic cancer progression and drug response.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143954791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2485873
Teresa M Thomas, Michael T Aboujaoude, Vayda R Barker, Mallika Varkhedi, Rahul Jain, George Blanck
{"title":"High GLP1R gene copy numbers associated with microsatellite instability for multiple cancers and with better survival probabilities for glioblastoma.","authors":"Teresa M Thomas, Michael T Aboujaoude, Vayda R Barker, Mallika Varkhedi, Rahul Jain, George Blanck","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2485873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2485873","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the Warburg effect is well-known and frequently studied, the molecular features that facilitate increased tumor cell glycolytic activity have yet to be extensively investigated. We hypothesized that amplification of genes encoding proteins related to glucose metabolism could be a mechanism to facilitate increased glycolysis. Thus, we applied a precision-guided copy number variation analysis approach to the GLP1R, AMFR, GCG, GPI, and ACTA1 genes across three different cancer types. Results indicated that higher CNs of GLP1R in glioblastoma were associated with better patient outcomes, while high CNs of GPI in lower-grade gliomas were associated with worse outcomes. Results also indicated that high microsatellite instability directly correlated with high CNs for most of the above indicated genes. These approaches to assessing tumor metabolism-related genes may lead to more accurate measures of patient risk and potential additional treatment options.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143964102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2485843
Léa Lacroix, Eugénie Goupil, Matthew J Smith, Jean-Claude Labbé
{"title":"Leaving the mark: FMOs as an emerging class of cytokinetic regulators.","authors":"Léa Lacroix, Eugénie Goupil, Matthew J Smith, Jean-Claude Labbé","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2485843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2485843","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Posttranslational modification of proteins plays a fundamental role in cell biology. It provides cells a means to regulate the signaling, enzymatic or structural properties of proteins without continuous cycles of synthesis and degradation, offering multiple distinct functions to individual proteins in a rapid and reversible manner. Modifications can include phosphorylation, ubiquitination or methylation, which are widespread and simple to detect using current approaches. More challenging to identify, one modification of growing significance is the direct oxidation of cysteine and methionine side chains. Protein oxidation has long been known to occur spontaneously upon the accumulation of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), but new data are providing insight into the targeted oxidation of proteins by flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs). Here, we review how oxidation of cellular proteins can modulate their activity and consider potential roles for FMOs in the targeted modification of proteins shaping cell division, with a particular focus on two families of FMOs: MICAL and OSGIN.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143810072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exosomes derived from mesenchymal stem cells ameliorate impaired glucose metabolism in myocardial Ischemia/reperfusion injury through miR-132-3p/PTEN/AKT pathway.","authors":"Hongkun Wu, Yongpeng Hui, Xingkai Qian, Xueting Wang, Jianwei Xu, Feng Wang, Sisi Pan, Kaiyuan Chen, Zhou Liu, Weilong Gao, Jue Bai, Guiyou Liang","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2485834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2485834","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exosomes secreted by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been considered as a novel biological therapy for myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (MIRI). However, the underlying mechanism of exosomes has not been completely established, especially in the early stage of MIRI. In this study, we primarily investigated the protective effect of exosomes on MIRI from both in vitro and ex vivo perspectives. Bioinformatic analysis was conducted to identify exosomal miRNA associated with myocardial protection, Genes and proteins related to functional studies and myocardial energy metabolism were analyzed and evaluated using techniques such as Polymerase Chain Re-action (PCR), Western blotting, double luciferase biochemical techniques, flow cytometry assay, etc. It was discovered that exosomes ameliorated cardiomyocyte injury t by delivery of miR-132-3p.This process reduced the expression of Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) mRNA and protein, enhanced the expression of phosphorylated protein kinase (pAKT), regulated the insulin signaling pathway, facilitated intracellular Glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) protein membrane translocation, and enhanced glucose uptake and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) production. This study confirmed, for the first time, that MSC-EXO can provide myocardial protection in the early stages of MIRI through miR-132/PTEN/AKT pathway. This research establishes a theoretical and experimental foundation for the clinical application of MSC-derived exosomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143779080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2484868
Mohamed El-Mesery, Franziska Rudolf, Yannick Heimann, Georg Häcker, Thomas Brunner
{"title":"Non-canonical functions of BCL-2 family members in energy metabolism and necrotic cell death regulation.","authors":"Mohamed El-Mesery, Franziska Rudolf, Yannick Heimann, Georg Häcker, Thomas Brunner","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2484868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2484868","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The large family of BCL-2 proteins plays a well-established role in the regulation of mitochondrial apoptosis pathway, and the crosstalk between death receptor signaling and mitochondrial apoptosis. Accumulating evidence suggests, however, that various BCL-2 family members are also involved in the regulation of apoptosis-unrelated necrotic forms of cell death, and even non-cell death processes. In this review, we discuss the emerging role of BCL-2 family members, and in particular BIM, in the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics, morphology and energy metabolism, and associated consequences for drug-inuced necrotic cell death.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143728795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2463772
{"title":"Expression of Concern: ATM-dependent phosphorylation of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K promotes p53 transcriptional activation in response to DNA damage.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2463772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2463772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143728864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2025.2460937
{"title":"Statement of Retraction: Fascin1 mediated release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and invasion/migration in rheumatoid arthritis via the STAT3 pathway.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2025.2460937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2025.2460937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143708773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2024-11-24DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2024.2429968
Latifa Bakiri, Erwin F Wagner
{"title":"c-Jun and Fra-2 pair up to Myc-anistically drive HCC.","authors":"Latifa Bakiri, Erwin F Wagner","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2024.2429968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2024.2429968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a leading cause of cancer-related death with limited therapies, is a complex disease developing in a background of Hepatitis Virus infection or systemic conditions, such as the metabolic syndrome. Investigating HCC pathogenesis in model organisms is therefore crucial for developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) have been instrumental in recapitulating the local and systemic features of HCC. Early studies using GEMMs and patient material implicated members of the dimeric Activator Protein-1 (AP-1) transcription factor family, such as c-Jun and c-Fos, in HCC formation. In a recent report, we described how switchable, hepatocyte-restricted expression of a single-chain c-Jun~Fra-2 protein, functionally mimicking the c-Jun/Fra-2 AP-1 dimer, results in spontaneous and largely reversible liver tumors in GEMMs. Dysregulated cell cycle, inflammation, and dyslipidemia are observed at early stages and tumors display molecular HCC signatures. We demonstrate that increased c-Myc expression is an essential molecular determinant of tumor formation that can be therapeutically targeted using the BET inhibitor JQ1. Here, we discuss these findings with additional results illustrating how AP-1 GEMMs can foster preclinical research on liver diseases with novel perspectives offered by the constantly increasing wealth of HCC-related datasets.</p>","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142709365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell CyclePub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2024.2396717
{"title":"Expression of Concern: DDB2 association with PCNA is required for its degradation after UV-induced DNA damage.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15384101.2024.2396717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2024.2396717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9686,"journal":{"name":"Cell Cycle","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142342431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}