Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

Macropinocytosis requires Gal-3 in a subset of patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells

  • Laetitia Seguin,
  • Soline Odouard,
  • Francesca Corlazzoli,
  • Sarah Al Haddad,
  • Laurine Moindrot,
  • Marta Calvo Tardón,
  • Mayra Yebra,
  • Alexey Koval,
  • Eliana Marinari,
  • Viviane Bes,
  • Alexandre Guérin,
  • Mathilde Allard,
  • Sten Ilmjärv,
  • Vladimir L. Katanaev,
  • Paul R. Walker,
  • Karl-Heinz Krause,
  • Valérie Dutoit,
  • Jann N. Sarkaria,
  • Pierre-Yves Dietrich,
  • Érika Cosset

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02258-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Seguin et al demonstrated in glioblastoma patient-derived stem cells that a subset of glioblastoma tumours is dependent on macropinocytosis mediated survival through a Galectin-3/RAB10/beta 1 integrin axis. They used both genetic and pharmacologic inhibition of Galectin-3 in vivo and in vitro to identify underlying mechanisms and define a Galectin-3/macropinocytosis molecular signature, which could inform the development of anti-tumour therapeutic strategies.