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ArticleScientific reports2026

Cancer cells surviving cisplatin chemotherapy increase stress-induced OMA1 activity and mitochondrial fragmentation.

Melvin Li, Chenille A McCullum, Louis T A Rolle, Qin Ni, Zhuoxu Ge, Sean X Sun, Kenneth J Pienta, Sarah R Amend

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Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Melvin LiCancer Ecology Center, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. mli154@jh.edu.
Chenille A McCullumCancer Ecology Center, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Louis T A RolleCancer Ecology Center, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Qin NiInstitute for NanoBio Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Zhuoxu GeInstitute for NanoBio Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Sean X SunInstitute for NanoBio Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Kenneth J PientaCancer Ecology Center, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Sarah R AmendCancer Ecology Center, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.

Funding

TRANS_NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143803 · NCI · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI AUSTIN, ROBERT H. · 2009 to 2013
$14.2M
The Role of Hydraulic Pressure in the Osmotic Engine Model of Cell MigrationR01GM134542 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SEAN X SUN · 2019 to 2026
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143803NCI NIH HHS U54CA143803NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134542NIH HHS R01 GM134542US Department of Defense CDMRP/PCRP 367 W81XWH-20-10353
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Abstract

Cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide. Once cancer cells acquire therapy resistance, they become the main driver of cancer lethality in patients. Thus, mechanisms of therapy resistance must be investigated to improve patient outcomes. Mitochondria are critical organelles in the cellular stress responses, undergoing dynamic morphological and functional changes in response to external stimuli. We and others have identified a chemotherapy-resistant cancer cell state where cells that survive treatment exhibit a dramatic increase in cell size and remain non-proliferative for weeks. In this study, we demonstrate that cancer cells that enter this resistant cell state in response to cisplatin increase OMA1 activity and decrease mitochondrial fusion and function to combat oxidative stress. These findings contribute to further understanding the role of the mitochondrial stress responses in therapy resistance in cancer and provide a potential therapeutic avenue to targeting cancer cells that enter this chemotherapy-resistant cell state.

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Antineoplastic AgentsCisplatinMetalloendopeptidasesMitochondriaNeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansMitochondrial DynamicsOxidative StressAntineoplastic AgentsCisplatinMetalloendopeptidasesmolecule metalloprotease-related protein-1, humanCancerMitochondrial dynamicsMitochondrial morphologyOMA1OPA1Oxidative stress

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PMID41495249
PMCPMC12848309

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