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Ramkumar 2019 Mitochondrion

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Ramkumar B, Dharaskar SP, Mounika G, Paithankar K, Sreedhar AS (2019) Mitochondrial chaperone, TRAP1 as a potential pharmacological target to combat cancer metabolism. Mitochondrion 50:42-50.

Β» PMID: 31669620 Open Access

Ramkumar B, Dharaskar SP, Mounika G, Paithankar K, Sreedhar AS (2019) Mitochondrion

Abstract: The stress response forms the most ancient defense system in living cells. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are highly conserved across species and play major roles in mounting the stress response. The emerging information now suggests that Hsp90 family of chaperones display additional cellular roles contributing to diseases like cancer. For this reason, pharmacological targeting of Hsp90 has emerged as a novel antitumor strategy. However, its mitochondrial homologue TRAP1 has not been implicated in cancer with conclusive mechanistic insights. Since understanding the mutational spectrum of cancer cells indicates the outcome of the disease as well as treatment response, we examined mutational spectrum of TRAP1. Our in silico analyses of TRAP1 SNPs and CNVs correlated with the aggressive cancer phenotypes, and are found to be predominant over Hsp90 itself. The increased CNVs have been correlated with increased expression of TRAP1 in metastatic cancer cells, increased ATP production, and decreased oxygen consumption rate of mitochondria. Examining TRAP1 knockdown as well as over expression in metastatic cancer cells furthered our understanding that TRAP1 likely to facilitate the altered energy metabolism in the functional compromise of mitochondrial OXPHOS. Interestingly, the increased ATP levels in the TRAP1 background are found to be independent of glucose oxidation. Our results suggest TRAP1 role in triggering the alternate energy metabolism in cancer cells. Since targeting tumor metabolism is considered as an alternate strategy to combat cancer, we propose pharmacological targeting of TRAP1 to target alternate energy metabolism.

Copyright Β© 2019 Elsevier B.V. and Mitochondria Research Society. All rights reserved. β€’ Keywords: Cancer, Hsp, Metabolism, Mitochondria, TRAP1 β€’ Bioblast editor: Plangger M


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, nDNA;cell genetics, Genetic knockout;overexpression  Pathology: Cancer 

Organism: Human  Tissue;cell: Lung;gill, HEK, Neuroblastoma  Preparation: Intact cells 



HRR: Oxygraph-2k 

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