PINK1 drives production of mtDNA-containing extracellular vesicles to promote invasiveness

Autor: Nicolas Rabas, Payam A. Gammage, Sarah Palmer, Louise Mitchell, Shehab Ismail, Stephen W.G. Tait, Joel S. Riley, Jim C. Norman, Iain R. Macpherson, Andrea Gohlke, Leandro Lemgruber Soares
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The Journal of Cell Biology
ISSN: 1540-8140
0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202006049
Popis: Rabas et al. describe a novel means of intercellular communication in which processes evoked to mitigate cytotoxicity in metabolically stressed cells can promote PINK1-dependent packaging of mitochondrial DNA into exosomes to evoke invasive behavior in other cells.
The cystine-glutamate antiporter, xCT, supports a glutathione synthesis program enabling cancer cells to cope with metabolically stressful microenvironments. Up-regulated xCT, in combination with glutaminolysis, leads to increased extracellular glutamate, which promotes invasive behavior by activating metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGluR3). Here we show that activation of mGluR3 in breast cancer cells activates Rab27-dependent release of extracellular vesicles (EVs), which can transfer invasive characteristics to “recipient” tumor cells. These EVs contain mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is packaged via a PINK1-dependent mechanism. We highlight mtDNA as a key EV cargo necessary and sufficient for intercellular transfer of invasive behavior by activating Toll-like receptor 9 in recipient cells, and this involves increased endosomal trafficking of pro-invasive receptors. We propose that an EV-mediated mechanism, through which altered cellular metabolism in one cell influences endosomal trafficking in other cells, is key to generation and dissemination of pro-invasive microenvironments during mammary carcinoma progression.
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