Dysregulated intermitochondrial crosstalk in glioblastoma cells revealed by in situ cryo- electron tomography
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(2024)
摘要
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.
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cryo- electron tomography,organelle crosstalk,glioblastoma,mitochondria
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