Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

OXPHOS remodeling in high-grade prostate cancer involves mtDNA mutations and increased succinate oxidation

  • Bernd Schöpf,
  • Hansi Weissensteiner,
  • Georg Schäfer,
  • Federica Fazzini,
  • Pornpimol Charoentong,
  • Andreas Naschberger,
  • Bernhard Rupp,
  • Liane Fendt,
  • Valesca Bukur,
  • Irina Giese,
  • Patrick Sorn,
  • Ana Carolina Sant’Anna-Silva,
  • Javier Iglesias-Gonzalez,
  • Ugur Sahin,
  • Florian Kronenberg,
  • Erich Gnaiger,
  • Helmut Klocker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15237-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The re-wiring of the metabolic machinery is a common feature in cancer. Here, the authors show, using paired normal and prostate cancer samples that the cancer samples exhibit a shift to succinate respiration, which is associated with elevated levels of mitochondrial DNA mutations.