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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Dysregulated inter-mitochondrial crosstalk in glioblastoma cells revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography.

Rui Wang, Huan Lei, Hongxiang Wang, Lei Qi, Yu'e Liu, Yunhui Liu, Yufeng Shi, Juxiang Chen, Qing-Tao Shen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Rui Wang *Department of Chemical Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0009-0000-0901-1556
Huan Lei *Department of Chemical Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Hongxiang WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Lei QiLaboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China.
Yu'e LiuTongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Yunhui LiuDepartment of Chemical Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Yufeng ShiTongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Juxiang ChenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Qing-Tao ShenDepartment of Chemical Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1672-6300
Southern University of Science and Technology · CNTongji University · CNSecond Military Medical University · CNShandong University · CN

Funding

MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2021YFF1200400NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 31800617NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 32241028NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 81572501NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 81872072NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 82073274NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA 82373095Shanghai Basic Research Program 19JC1415000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastomas (GBMs) are the most lethal primary brain tumors with limited survival, even under aggressive treatments. The current therapeutics for GBMs are flawed due to the failure to accurately discriminate between normal proliferating cells and distinctive tumor cells. Mitochondria are essential to GBMs and serve as potential therapeutical targets. Here, we utilize cryo-electron tomography to quantitatively investigate nanoscale details of randomly sampled mitochondria in their native cellular context of GBM cells. Our results show that compared with cancer-free brain cells, GBM cells own more inter-mitochondrial junctions of several types for communications. Furthermore, our tomograms unveil microtubule-dependent mitochondrial nanotunnel-like bridges in the GBM cells as another inter-mitochondrial structure. These quantified inter-mitochondrial features, together with other mitochondria-organelle and intra-mitochondrial ones, are sufficient to distinguish GBM cells from cancer-free brain cells under scrutiny with predictive modeling. Our findings decipher high-resolution inter-mitochondrial structural signatures and provide clues for diagnosis and therapeutic interventions for GBM and other mitochondria-related diseases.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaBrainElectron Microscope TomographyHumansMitochondriacryo-electron tomographyglioblastomamitochondriaorganelle crosstalk

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PMID38377189
PMCPMC10907319
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