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Catalina Vasilescu, PhD @cvasilescu.bsky.social · 1d

Fresh selection of papers on #MitochondrialDisease from #week41! 📚 💚
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Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations
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Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations

Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...

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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 1d

Good Sunday, all. Your weekly curated summary of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology is ready, don't miss it as it is full of exceptional discoveries: biomed.news/bims-camemi/... Biomed News #keepreading

"To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." -Georgia O'Keeffe

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!!

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RyanLab_TCD @ryanlab.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting study from @frisophagy.bsky.social in @chinnery in the Chinnery lab @mrc-mbu.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors involved in the study! #mitochondria

Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations | Science
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Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations

Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...

www.science.org

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 3d

Acidosis orchestrates adaptations of energy metabolism in tumors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Acidosis orchestrates adaptations of energy metabolism in tumors

Malignant tumors are characterized by diverse metabolic stresses, including nutrient shortages, hypoxia, and buildup of metabolic by-products. To understand how cancer cells adapt to such challenges, ...

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations, Isha!

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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 5d

Leveraging modern scientific tools and techniques, @ishahjain.bsky.social intends to transform our understanding of the critical roles that vitamins play in health and disease.

Bringing Modern Science to Vitamin Biology: Isha Jain Wins NIH Transformative Research Award

Leveraging modern scientific tools and techniques, Jain intends to transform our understanding of the critical roles that vitamins play in health and disease.

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Scott Soleimanpour @soleimanpourlab.bsky.social · 4d

🚨How do mitochondria sense and respond to metabolic stress from the environment in diabetes? 🤔

In new work out in #ScienceAdvances, we show that innate immune signaling promotes β cell compensation for metabolic stress by engaging mitophagy. 🚨1/n
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TRAF6 integrates innate immune signals to regulate glucose homeostasis via Parkin-dependent and Parkin-independent mitophagy

TRAF6 bridges innate immune signaling to mitophagy to promote glucose control during metabolic stress.

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Michele Frison @frisophagy.bsky.social · 8d

In this week's mitophagy news 🪫🗑️

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⚡The PP2A-B55α phosphatase is a master regulator of mitochondrial degradation and biogenesis⚡
-Mitochondrial ROS triggers mitophagy through activating the DNA damage response signaling pathway

Thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social

PP2A-B55α activates TFEB upon mitochondrial damage to support Parkin-dependent mitophagy.

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David Finlay @davidfinlaytcd.bsky.social · 9d

Exercise-induced Metabolite N-lactoyl-phenylalanine Ameliorates Colitis by Inhibiting M1 Macrophage Polarization. www.cmghjournal.org/article/S235...

Wonder how metformin induced LacPhe (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) affects macrophages and gut inflammation. @immunometforum.bsky.social

Exercise-induced Metabolite N-lactoyl-phenylalanine Ameliorates Colitis by Inhibiting M1 Macrophage Polarization via the Suppression of the NF-κB Signaling Pathway

Although the anti-inflammatory benefits of exercise are well-documented, the specific mechanisms responsible for these advantages remain uncertain. N-lactoyl-phenylalanine (Lac-Phe), a major metabolit...

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 9d

NAD+ precursor treatment prevents cardiomyopathy but disrupts erythroid maturation in mitochondrial progeria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NAD+ precursor treatment prevents cardiomyopathy but disrupts erythroid maturation in mitochondrial progeria

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide plays a central role in energy metabolism, and its decline is linked to various degenerative diseases. While NAD+ restoration holds therapeutic promise, its long term...

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 14d

D-serine suppresses one-carbon metabolism by competing with mitochondrial L-serine transport elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

D-serine suppresses one-carbon metabolism by competing with mitochondrial L-serine transport

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 15d

Herbal terpenoids activate autophagy and mitophagy through modulation of bioenergetics and protect from metabolic stress, sarcopenia and epigenetic aging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Herbal terpenoids activate autophagy and mitophagy through modulation of bioenergetics and protect from metabolic stress, sarcopenia and epigenetic aging - Nature Aging

Using a zebrafish-based screen, Civiletto and colleagues identify the herb-derived metabolites thymol and carvacrol as activators of autophagy and mitophagy, demonstrating their therapeutic potential in C. elegans and mouse models.

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Xinnan Wang Lab @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social · 18d

Our new review is out! Likely once an independent organism, mitochondria have retained a striking degree of autonomy. We discuss their capacity to sense within—a process we refer to as mitochondrial inside-out signaling. Written by talented @furkanoflaz.bsky.social @signscaztl.bsky.social

Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 18d

Review @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
Sensing within: Mitochondrial inside-out signal transduction
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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 20d

Engineered prime editors with minimal genomic errors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineered prime editors with minimal genomic errors - Nature

Engineered prime editor systems with reduced occurrences of unwanted insertions or deletions during genome editing are developed.

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RyanLab_TCD @ryanlab.bsky.social · 21d

📢Last weeks #immunometabolism discoveries @biomednews.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽

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Highlight:
Label-free metabolic imaging monitors the fitness of chimeric antigen receptor T cells
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Label-free metabolic imaging monitors the fitness of chimeric antigen receptor T cells - Nature Biomedical Engineering

Monitoring T cell metabolism during chimeric antigen receptor T manufacturing using optical metabolic imaging enables fine-tuning of manufacturing conditions to increase T cell yield and fitness.

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Catalina Vasilescu, PhD @cvasilescu.bsky.social · 22d

To honour the #MitochondrialDisease #AwarenessWeek 💚 we bring a new collection of recently-published research papers related to mitochondrial disease:
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Cryo-EM of the prohibitin complex

Hong et al, Cryo-EM structure of the prohibitin complex in open conformation

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512430122

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Keshav K Singh, PhD @mitoscientist.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight, shine a light of hope in green to support the mito community.

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Keshav K Singh, PhD @mitoscientist.bsky.social · 24d

This week (Sept 15 to 21, 2025) is Mitochondrial Disease Week
-a chance to shine light on mitochondrial disorders and the people living with them.
Light up green for mito on 20th, September.

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 27d

Hypermetabolism and energetic constraints in mitochondrial disorders www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Hypermetabolism and energetic constraints in mitochondrial disorders - Nature Metabolism

The prevailing notion that mitochondrial diseases arise from ATP deficiency is challenged by recent evidence that oxidative phosphorylation defects trigger maladaptive stress responses consuming exces...

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 27d

ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons - Nature

Loss-of-function variants of ABCA7, associated with Alzheimer’s disease, result in disrupted lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, DNA repair and synaptic signalling pathways in the human brain.

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Michele Frison @frisophagy.bsky.social · 29d

In this week's issue of mitophagy news 🪫🗑️:

-Urolithin A increases healthspan via MERCS and Ca2+-mitophagy
-Parkin Induces Ubiquitination and Large Extracellular Vesicle Release of HMGB1 to Activate Antitumor Immunity
-a Parkin and hTau mouse cross

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