Michael Graner,
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery,
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Michael Graner received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois followed by post-doctoral and research faculty work at the University of Arizona, shifting gears from the Drosophila extracellular matrix to cancer immunotherapy. He then took at faculty position at Duke University’s Tisch Brain Tumor Center, followed by his current position as Professor in Neurosurgery at the University of Colorado Denver (Anschutz Medical Campus). He is also a member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, the MAVRC Program, and holds a Visiting Professorship Appointment at the Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital (China) and an adjunct faculty appointment at Colorado State University. Graner has a long-standing interest in cell stress responses, which led to cancer vaccine development (including one in clinical trials), which somehow led to the world of extracellular vesicles (EVs). His lab currently concentrates on signaling mechanisms involving EVs, in particular the transfer of stressed phenotypes from stressed tumor cells to unstressed ones via EVs.
Stressing Out the Neighbors: Stressed Exosomes (“Sexosomes”?) Passage Stress Phenotypes to Recipient Cells (a Brief Proteomic Analysis)
Tuesday, 22 March 2016 at 14:00
Add to Calendar ▼2016-03-22 14:00:002016-03-22 15:00:00Europe/LondonStressing Out the Neighbors: Stressed Exosomes (“Sexosomes”?) Passage Stress Phenotypes to Recipient Cells (a Brief Proteomic Analysis)SELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Cancer cells undergo a number of stresses, many of them self-inflicted, but often do not appear to suffer the consequences of those stresses. In some cases, the stress responses may actually prove beneficial to the tumor cells, providing them with potent resilience to their less-than-hospitable environments. One consistent tumor stress is the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), an endoplasmic reticulum-based stress-management system with sensors, transducers, and effectors that result in a transcriptional and translational landscape rearrangement leading to resolution of the stress, or cellular apoptosis. However, tumors may incorporate the UPR into their stress portfolio to survive or even thrive amidst their environmental insults. We propose that exosomes from stressed cells (stressed exosomes, or “sexosomes”) are able to induce stress response phenotypes in recipient, unstressed cells, thus enabling stress responses without having to experience the actual stress. Our analysis in this report goes to the molecular level, monitoring proteome changes in glioma cells when those cells are exposed to exosomes released from UPR-stressed cells. We find high overlap in the proteomes of stressed cells and unstressed cells that receive “sexosomes”, suggesting that tumors may unify their overall stress responses despite their inherent heterogeneity. The implications for general tumor biology, and in particular, therapeutic resistance, are highlighted.
Add to Calendar ▼2016-03-21 00:00:002016-03-22 00:00:00Europe/LondonExosomes and Microvesicles: Research, Biomarker Cargo and Therapeutic PotentialSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2016-03-22 14:00:002016-03-22 15:00:00Europe/LondonStressing Out the Neighbors: Stressed Exosomes (“Sexosomes”?) Passage Stress Phenotypes to Recipient Cells (a Brief Proteomic Analysis)SELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
