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Barry-Hundeyin M, Carrot-Zhang J, Dayton T, Ghazanfar S, Guenther LM, Nguyen DTT, Pitarresi JR, Rajput S, Santana-Codina N, Shree T, Zeng Z, Zhang Y. The 2022 generation. Nat Cancer 2022; 3:1426-1431. [PMID: 36539504 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-022-00481-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Affiliation(s)
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- Computational Oncology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Tissue Biology and Disease Modeling Unit, European Molecular Biology Lab, Barcelona, Spain.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
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- Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
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- Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA.
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- Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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Santana-Codina N, Zhang H, del Rey MQ, Kapner KS, Gikandi A, Malcolm C, Poupault C, Kuljanin M, John K, Biancur DE, Chen B, Das N, Lowder K, Hennessey CJ, Huang W, Yang A, Shah YM, Nowak JA, Aguirre AJ, Mancias JD. Abstract A075: NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy is a pancreatic cancer dependency via maintenance of iron bioavailability for iron-sulfur cluster proteins. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.panca22-a075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) depend on autophagy for survival; however, the metabolic substrates that autophagy provides to drive PDAC progression are unclear. Ferritin, the cellular iron storage complex, is targeted for lysosomal degradation (ferritinophagy) by the selective autophagy adaptor Nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4), resulting in release of iron for cellular utilization. Using patient-derived and genetically engineered murine models of PDAC we now demonstrate that ferritinophagy is upregulated in PDAC to sustain iron availability thereby promoting tumor progression. Mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics reveals that ferritinophagy fuels iron-sulfur cluster protein synthesis to support mitochondrial homeostasis. Targeting NCOA4 leads to tumor growth delay and prolonged survival but with development of compensatory iron acquisition pathways. Finally, enhanced ferritinophagy accelerates PDAC tumorigenesis, and an elevated ferritinophagy expression signature predicts for poor prognosis in PDAC patients. Together, our data reveal that maintenance of iron homeostasis is a critical function of PDAC autophagy, and we define NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy as a therapeutic target in PDAC.
Citation Format: Naiara Santana-Codina, Huan Zhang, Maria Quiles del Rey, Kevin S. Kapner, Ajami Gikandi, Callum Malcolm, Clara Poupault, Miljan Kuljanin, Kristen John, Douglas E. Biancur, Brandon Chen, Nupur Das, Kristen Lowder, Connor J. Hennessey, Wesley Huang, Annan Yang, Yatrik M. Shah, Jonathan A. Nowak, Andrew J. Aguirre, Joseph D. Mancias. NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy is a pancreatic cancer dependency via maintenance of iron bioavailability for iron-sulfur cluster proteins [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer; 2022 Sep 13-16; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(22 Suppl):Abstract nr A075.
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- 1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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- 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- 1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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Santana-Codina N, del Rey MQ, Kapner KS, Zhang H, Gikandi A, Malcolm C, Poupault C, Kuljanin M, John KM, Biancur DE, Chen B, Das NK, Lowder KE, Hennessey CJ, Huang W, Yang A, Shah YM, Nowak JA, Aguirre AJ, Mancias JD. NCOA4-Mediated Ferritinophagy Is a Pancreatic Cancer Dependency via Maintenance of Iron Bioavailability for Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins. Cancer Discov 2022; 12:2180-2197. [PMID: 35771492 PMCID: PMC9437572 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) depend on autophagy for survival; however, the metabolic substrates that autophagy provides to drive PDAC progression are unclear. Ferritin, the cellular iron storage complex, is targeted for lysosomal degradation (ferritinophagy) by the selective autophagy adaptor NCOA4, resulting in release of iron for cellular utilization. Using patient-derived and murine models of PDAC, we demonstrate that ferritinophagy is upregulated in PDAC to sustain iron availability, thereby promoting tumor progression. Quantitative proteomics reveals that ferritinophagy fuels iron-sulfur cluster protein synthesis to support mitochondrial homeostasis. Targeting NCOA4 leads to tumor growth delay and prolonged survival but with the development of compensatory iron acquisition pathways. Finally, enhanced ferritinophagy accelerates PDAC tumorigenesis, and an elevated ferritinophagy expression signature predicts for poor prognosis in patients with PDAC. Together, our data reveal that the maintenance of iron homeostasis is a critical function of PDAC autophagy, and we define NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy as a therapeutic target in PDAC. SIGNIFICANCE Autophagy and iron metabolism are metabolic dependencies in PDAC. However, targeted therapies for these pathways are lacking. We identify NCOA4-mediated selective autophagy of ferritin ("ferritinophagy") as upregulated in PDAC. Ferritinophagy supports PDAC iron metabolism and thereby tumor progression and represents a new therapeutic target in PDAC. See related commentary by Jain and Amaravadi, p. 2023. See related article by Ravichandran et al., p. 2198. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 2007.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Das NK, Jain C, Sankar A, Schwartz AJ, Santana-Codina N, Solanki S, Zhang Z, Ma X, Parimi S, Rui L, Mancias JD, Shah YM. Modulation of the HIF2α-NCOA4 axis in enterocytes attenuates iron loading in a mouse model of hemochromatosis. Blood 2022; 139:2547-2552. [PMID: 34990508 PMCID: PMC9029091 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2021013452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Intestinal iron absorption is activated during increased systemic demand for iron. The best-studied example is iron deficiency anemia, which increases intestinal iron absorption. Interestingly, the intestinal response to anemia is very similar to that of iron overload disorders, as both the conditions activate a transcriptional program that leads to a hyperabsorption of iron via the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF2α). However, pathways for selective targeting of intestine-mediated iron overload remain unknown. Nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4) is a critical cargo receptor for autophagic breakdown of ferritin and the subsequent release of iron, in a process termed ferritinophagy. Our work demonstrates that NCOA4-mediated intestinal ferritinophagy is integrated into systemic iron demand via HIF2α. To demonstrate the importance of the intestinal HIF2α/ferritinophagy axis in systemic iron homeostasis, whole-body and intestine-specific NCOA4-/- mouse lines were generated and assessed. The analyses revealed that the intestinal and systemic response to iron deficiency was not altered after disruption of intestinal NCOA4. However, in a mouse model of hemochromatosis, ablation of intestinal NCOA4 was protective against iron overload. Therefore, NCOA4 can be selectively targeted for the management of iron overload disorders without disrupting the physiological processes involved in the response to systemic iron deficiency.
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- Nupur K Das
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; and
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; and
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Santana-Codina N, Muixí L, Foj R, Sanz-Pamplona R, Badia-Villanueva M, Abramowicz A, Marcé-Grau A, Cosialls AM, Gil J, Archilla I, Pedrosa L, Gonzalez J, Aldecoa I, Sierra A. GRP94 promotes brain metastasis by engaging pro-survival autophagy. Neuro Oncol 2021; 22:652-664. [PMID: 31637425 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noz198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND GRP94 is a glucose-regulated protein critical for survival in endoplasmic reticulum stress. Expression of GRP94 is associated with cellular transformation and increased tumorigenicity in breast cancer. Specifically, overexpression of GRP94 predicts brain metastasis (BM) in breast carcinoma patients with either triple negative or ErbB2 positive tumors. The aim of this study was to understand if microenvironmental regulation of GRP94 expression might be a hinge orchestrating BM progression. METHODS GRP94 ablation was performed in a BM model BR-eGFP-CMV/Luc-V5CA1 (BRV5CA1) of breast cancer. In vitro results were validated in a dataset of 29 metastases in diverse organs from human breast carcinomas and in BM tissue from tumors of different primary origin. BM patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) were used to test sensitivity to the therapeutic approach. RESULTS BMs that overexpress GRP94 as well as tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 2 are more resistant to glucose deprivation by induction of anti-apoptotic proteins (B-cell lymphoma 2 and inhibitors of apoptosis proteins) and engagement of pro-survival autophagy. GRP94 ablation downregulated autophagy in tumor cells, resulting in increased BM survival in vivo. These results were validated in a metastasis dataset from human patients, suggesting that targeting autophagy might be strategic for BM prevention. Indeed, hydroxychloroquine treatment of preclinical models of BM from PDX exerts preventive inhibition of tumor growth (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS We show that GRP94 is directly implicated in BM establishment by activating pro-survival autophagy. Disruption of this compensatory fueling route might prevent metastatic growth.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility, Oncology Data Analytics Program (ODAP), Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Oncology, Center of Biomedical Research-August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute-Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Oncobell, Bellvitge Medical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Oncobell, Bellvitge Medical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Pathology Department, Center of Biomedical Diagnosis, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hematology and Oncology Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Neurosurgery Hospital Clinic Barcelona, IDIBAPS Advances in Neurosurgery Research Group, Barcelona, Spain
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- Pathology Department, Center of Biomedical Diagnosis, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Oncology, Center of Biomedical Research-August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Health and Social Studies Center (CESS), University of Vic‒Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Spain
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Nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4) is a selective cargo receptor that mediates the autophagic degradation of ferritin, the cytosolic iron storage complex, in a process known as ferritinophagy. NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy is required to maintain intracellular and systemic iron homeostasis and thereby iron-dependent physiologic processes such as erythropoiesis. Given this role of ferritinophagy in regulating iron homeostasis, modulating NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagic flux alters sensitivity to ferroptosis, a non-apoptotic iron-dependent form of cell death triggered by peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). A role for ferroptosis has been established in the pathophysiology of cancer and neurodegeneration; however, the importance of ferritinophagy in these pathologies remains largely unknown. Here, we review the available evidence on biochemical regulation of NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy and its role in modulating sensitivity to innate and induced ferroptosis in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Finally, we evaluate the potential of modulating ferritinophagy in combination with ferroptosis inducers as a therapeutic strategy.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Santana-Codina N, Gonzalez J, Sierra A. Reply to Letter to the Editor. Neuro Oncol 2020; 22:734-735. [PMID: 32219414 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBAPS Advances in Neurosurgery Research Group, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Oncology, Cellex Biomedical Research Center-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Santana-Codina N, Chandhoke AS, Yu Q, Małachowska B, Kuljanin M, Gikandi A, Stańczak M, Gableske S, Jedrychowski MP, Scott DA, Aguirre AJ, Fendler W, Gray NS, Mancias JD. Defining and Targeting Adaptations to Oncogenic KRASG12C Inhibition Using Quantitative Temporal Proteomics. Cell Rep 2020; 30:4584-4599.e4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Santana-Codina N, Chandhoke AS, Yu Q, Malachowska B, Kuljanin M, Jedrychowski MP, Gikandi A, Stanczak M, Scott DA, Fendler W, Gray NS, Mancias JD. Abstract C48: Defining mechanisms of adaptation to KRAS G12C inhibitors: Using quantitative proteomics to design combinatorial strategies in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.panca19-c48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Abstract
KRAS is mutated in 95% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumors and is a critical driver of PDAC initiation, survival, and proliferation. Therapeutic efforts to target KRAS directly have been largely unsuccessful, leading to the thought that KRAS was “undruggable.” Recently, KRAS G12C inhibitors (KRASi) that covalently bind the mutant cysteine have been reported and are currently being tested in clinical trials. Unfortunately, as has been demonstrated with other targeted therapies, the efficacy of targeting an oncogenic driver can be limited by both tumor heterogeneity and development of resistance. Here, we have used a mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics workflow to identify pathways of adaptation to KRASi and to predict cytotoxic drug combinations both in 2D and 3D cell culture conditions. We treated multiple KRAS G12C mutant tumor lines (pancreatic, lung) with KRASi, which induced a cytostatic response with subsequent re-establishment of proliferation at longer time points. We profiled the proteomic adaptations acutely and at long term using a multiplexed quantitative proteomics workflow and identified and quantified over 8000 proteins. Pathway analysis by Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) identified common mechanisms of acute drug response among KRAS G12C mutant tumor lines such as downregulation of cell cycle/transcription and increased lipid metabolism. Long-term adaptation was associated with increased DNA repair and oxidative metabolism, but further adaptations differed between tumor cell lines, suggesting selective programs are required to reactivate proliferation. Connectivity map (Cmap) analysis identified 30 perturbagen classes (connectivity score of Cmap class>90) that positively correlated with the MiaPaCa-2 KRASi profile at 24h. We identified correlations with elements in the KRAS pathway (MEK, RAF inhibitors) and with pathways previously described to synergize with KRAS inhibition (PI3K inhibitors), validating the utility of our approach. In addition, we identified combinations with HSP90, MET and EGFR inhibitors that, when co-targeted with KRASi, were able to suppress growth in long-term assays and induced cytotoxicity. Given that recent results suggest that 3D culture conditions may be most predictive of in vivo efficacy, we selected cell lines with greater KRASi sensitivity in 3D growth conditions and performed proteomic analysis in 3D versus 2D culture. Through GSEA analysis we determined differences in the 3D versus 2D proteome basally as well as after KRASi. Finally, we identified combinations by Cmap analysis that differentially correlated with the 3D signature, including CDK4/6 inhibitors, which reduced growth in 3D conditions. Overall, we employed a proteomics platform to characterize adaptation to KRASi and identified combinatorial regimens that induce cytotoxicity with potential therapeutic utility.
Citation Format: Naiara Santana-Codina, Amrita Singh Chandhoke, Qijia Yu, Beata Malachowska, Miljan Kuljanin, Mark P. Jedrychowski, Ajami Gikandi, Marcin Stanczak, David A. Scott, Wojciech Fendler, Nathanael S. Gray, Joseph D. Mancias. Defining mechanisms of adaptation to KRAS G12C inhibitors: Using quantitative proteomics to design combinatorial strategies in pancreatic cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer: Advances in Science and Clinical Care; 2019 Sept 6-9; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(24 Suppl):Abstract nr C48.
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- 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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- 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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- 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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- 3Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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- 4Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Medical University Lodz, Lodz, Poland,
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- 5Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA,
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Santana-Codina N, Gableske S, Fleming MD, Harper JW, Kimmelman AC, Mancias JD. The role of nuclear receptor co-activator 4 in erythropoiesis (Reply to Nai et al.). Haematologica 2019; 104:e585-e586. [PMID: 31787617 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2019.235226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA;
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Santana-Codina N, Marcé-Grau A, Muixí L, Nieva C, Marro M, Sebastián D, Muñoz JP, Zorzano A, Sierra A. GRP94 Is Involved in the Lipid Phenotype of Brain Metastatic Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20163883. [PMID: 31395819 PMCID: PMC6720951 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20163883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Metabolic adaptation may happen in response to the pressure exerted by the microenvironment and is a key step in survival of metastatic cells. Brain metastasis occurs as a consequence of the systemic dissemination of tumor cells, a fact that correlates with poor prognosis and high morbidity due to the difficulty in identifying biomarkers that allow a more targeted therapy. Previously, we performed transcriptomic analysis of human breast cancer patient samples and evaluated the differential expression of genes in brain metastasis (BrM) compared to lung, bone and liver metastasis. Our network approach identified upregulation of glucose-regulated protein 94 (GRP94) as well as proteins related to synthesis of fatty acids (FA) in BrM. Here we report that BrM cells show an increase in FA content and decreased saturation with regard to parental cells measured by Raman spectroscopy that differentiate BrM from other metastases. Moreover, BrM cells exerted a high ability to oxidize FA and compensate hypoglycemic stress due to an overexpression of proteins involved in FA synthesis and degradation (SREBP-1, LXRα, ACOT7). GRP94 ablation restored glucose dependence, down-regulated ACOT7 and SREBP-1 and decreased tumorigenicity in vivo. In conclusion, GRP94 is required for the metabolic stress survival of BrM cells, and it might act as a modulator of lipid metabolism to favor BrM progression.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, E-08908 Barcelona, Spain.
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Campus Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallés, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, E-08908 Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, E-08908 Barcelona, Spain
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- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, E-08908 Barcelona, Spain
- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Oncology, Centre de Recerca Biomèdica CELLEX-CRBC-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer-IDIBAPS, E-08036 Barcelona, Spain.
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Santana-Codina N, Gableske S, Quiles del Rey M, Małachowska B, Jedrychowski MP, Biancur DE, Schmidt PJ, Fleming MD, Fendler W, Harper JW, Kimmelman AC, Mancias JD. NCOA4 maintains murine erythropoiesis via cell autonomous and non-autonomous mechanisms. Haematologica 2019; 104:1342-1354. [PMID: 30630985 PMCID: PMC6601094 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2018.204123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Ncoa4 mediates autophagic degradation of ferritin, the cytosolic iron storage complex, to maintain intracellular iron homeostasis. Recent evidence also supports a role for Ncoa4 in systemic iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis. However, the specific contribution and temporal importance of Ncoa4-mediated ferritinophagy in regulating systemic iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis is unclear. Here, we show that Ncoa4 has a critical role in basal systemic iron homeostasis and both cell autonomous and non-autonomous roles in murine erythropoiesis. Using an inducible murine model of Ncoa4 knockout, acute systemic disruption of Ncoa4 impaired systemic iron homeostasis leading to tissue ferritin and iron accumulation, a decrease in serum iron, and anemia. Mice acutely depleted of Ncoa4 engaged the Hif2a-erythropoietin system to compensate for anemia. Mice with targeted deletion of Ncoa4 specifically in the erythroid compartment developed a pronounced anemia in the immediate postnatal stage, a mild hypochromic microcytic anemia at adult stages, and were more sensitive to hemolysis with higher requirements for the Hif2a-erythropoietin axis and extramedullary erythropoiesis during recovery. These studies demonstrate the importance of Ncoa4-mediated ferritinophagy as a regulator of systemic iron homeostasis and define the relative cell autonomous and non-autonomous contributions of Ncoa4 in supporting erythropoiesis in vivo.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Poland.,Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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Santana-Codina N, Mancias JD. The Role of NCOA4-Mediated Ferritinophagy in Health and Disease. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2018; 11:E114. [PMID: 30360520 PMCID: PMC6316710 DOI: 10.3390/ph11040114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Revised: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4) is a selective cargo receptor that mediates the autophagic degradation of ferritin ("ferritinophagy"), the cytosolic iron storage complex. NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy maintains intracellular iron homeostasis by facilitating ferritin iron storage or release according to demand. Ferritinophagy is involved in iron-dependent physiological processes such as erythropoiesis, where NCOA4 mediates ferritin iron release for mitochondrial heme synthesis. Recently, ferritinophagy has been shown to regulate ferroptosis, a newly described form of iron-dependent cell death mediated by excess lipid peroxidation. Dysregulation of iron metabolism and ferroptosis have been described in neurodegeneration, cancer, and infection, but little is known about the role of ferritinophagy in the pathogenesis of these diseases. Here, we will review the biochemical regulation of NCOA4, its contribution to physiological processes and its role in disease. Finally, we will discuss the potential of activating or inhibiting ferritinophagy and ferroptosis for therapeutic purposes.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Institute of Medicine, Room 221, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Institute of Medicine, Room 221, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Autophagy is a highly conserved and regulated process that targets proteins and damaged organelles for lysosomal degradation to maintain cell metabolism, genomic integrity, and cell survival. The role of autophagy in cancer is dynamic and depends, in part, on tumor type and stage. Although autophagy constrains tumor initiation in normal tissue, some tumors rely on autophagy for tumor promotion and maintenance. Studies in genetically engineered mouse models support the idea that autophagy can constrain tumor initiation by regulating DNA damage and oxidative stress. In established tumors, autophagy can also be required for tumor maintenance, allowing tumors to survive environmental stress and providing intermediates for cell metabolism. Autophagy can also be induced in response to chemotherapeutics, acting as a drug-resistance mechanism. Therefore, targeting autophagy is an attractive cancer therapeutic option currently undergoing validation in clinical trials.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016;
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Sierra A, Santana-Codina N, Sanz-Pamplona R, Muixí L. GRP94 protein and prosurvival autophagy, the Achilles heel on brain metastasis progression. Eur J Cancer 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(16)61379-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Santana-Codina N, Carretero R, Sanz-Pamplona R, Cabrera T, Guney E, Oliva B, Clezardin P, Olarte OE, Loza-Alvarez P, Méndez-Lucas A, Perales JC, Sierra A. A transcriptome-proteome integrated network identifies endoplasmic reticulum thiol oxidoreductase (ERp57) as a hub that mediates bone metastasis. Mol Cell Proteomics 2013; 12:2111-25. [PMID: 23625662 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m112.022772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Bone metastasis is the most common distant relapse in breast cancer. The identification of key proteins involved in the osteotropic phenotype would represent a major step toward the development of new prognostic markers and therapeutic improvements. The aim of this study was to characterize functional phenotypes that favor bone metastasis in human breast cancer. We used the human breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 and its osteotropic BO2 subclone to identify crucial proteins in bone metastatic growth. We identified 31 proteins, 15 underexpressed and 16 overexpressed, in BO2 cells compared with parental cells. We employed a network-modeling approach in which these 31 candidate proteins were prioritized with respect to their potential in metastasis formation, based on the topology of the protein-protein interaction network and differential expression. The protein-protein interaction network provided a framework to study the functional relationships between biological molecules by attributing functions to genes whose functions had not been characterized. The combination of expression profiles and protein interactions revealed an endoplasmic reticulum-thiol oxidoreductase, ERp57, functioning as a hub that retained four down-regulated nodes involved in antigen presentation associated with the human major histocompatibility complex class I molecules, including HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-E, and HLA-F. Further analysis of the interaction network revealed an inverse correlation between ERp57 and vimentin, which influences cytoskeleton reorganization. Moreover, knockdown of ERp57 in BO2 cells confirmed its bone organ-specific prometastatic role. Altogether, ERp57 appears as a multifunctional chaperone that can regulate diverse biological processes to maintain the homeostasis of breast cancer cells and promote the development of bone metastasis.
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- Naiara Santana-Codina
- Biological Clues of the Invasive and Metastatic Phenotype Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona E-08908, Spain
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Nieva C, Marro M, Santana-Codina N, Rao S, Petrov D, Sierra A. The lipid phenotype of breast cancer cells characterized by Raman microspectroscopy: towards a stratification of malignancy. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46456. [PMID: 23082122 PMCID: PMC3474759 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Although molecular classification brings interesting insights into breast cancer taxonomy, its implementation in daily clinical care is questionable because of its expense and the information supplied in a single sample allocation is not sufficiently reliable. New approaches, based on a panel of small molecules derived from the global or targeted analysis of metabolic profiles of cells, have found a correlation between activation of de novo lipogenesis and poorer prognosis and shorter disease-free survival for many tumors. We hypothesized that the lipid content of breast cancer cells might be a useful indirect measure of a variety of functions coupled to breast cancer progression. Raman microspectroscopy was used to characterize metabolism of breast cancer cells with different degrees of malignancy. Raman spectra from MDA-MB-435, MDA-MB-468, MDA-MB-231, SKBR3, MCF7 and MCF10A cells were acquired with an InVia Raman microscope (Renishaw) with a backscattered configuration. We used Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analyses to assess the different profiling of the lipid composition of breast cancer cells. Characteristic bands related to lipid content were found at 3014, 2935, 2890 and 2845 cm(-1), and related to lipid and protein content at 2940 cm(-1). A classificatory model was generated which segregated metastatic cells and non-metastatic cells without basal-like phenotype with a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 82.1%. Moreover, expression of SREBP-1c and ABCA1 genes validated the assignation of the lipid phenotype of breast cancer cells. Indeed, changes in fatty acid unsaturation were related with the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition phenotype. Raman microspectroscopy is a promising technique for characterizing and classifying the malignant phenotype of breast cancer cells on the basis of their lipid profiling. The algorithm for the discrimination of metastatic ability is a first step towards stratifying breast cancer cells using this rapid and reagent-free tool.
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- Claudia Nieva
- IDIBELL-Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
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- IDIBELL-Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- UAB-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
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- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
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- IDIBELL-Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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