Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Inducing cancer indolence by targeting mitochondrial Complex I is potentiated by blocking macrophage-mediated adaptive responses

  • Ivana Kurelac,
  • Luisa Iommarini,
  • Renaud Vatrinet,
  • Laura Benedetta Amato,
  • Monica De Luise,
  • Giulia Leone,
  • Giulia Girolimetti,
  • Nikkitha Umesh Ganesh,
  • Victoria Louise Bridgeman,
  • Luigi Ombrato,
  • Marta Columbaro,
  • Moira Ragazzi,
  • Lara Gibellini,
  • Manuela Sollazzo,
  • Rene Gunther Feichtinger,
  • Silvia Vidali,
  • Maurizio Baldassarre,
  • Sarah Foriel,
  • Michele Vidone,
  • Andrea Cossarizza,
  • Daniela Grifoni,
  • Barbara Kofler,
  • Ilaria Malanchi,
  • Anna Maria Porcelli,
  • Giuseppe Gasparre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08839-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Lack of respiratory complex I is a hallmark of oncocytomas. Here the authors show that inactivation of this complex via knockout of the NDUFS3 subunit or using metformin, converts tumors from an aggressive phenotype into low-proliferative oncocytomas, which can be further inhibited by targeting pro-tumorigenic macrophages.