1. Home
  2. People Index
  3. Alexander Heberle

Alexander Heberle

About Alexander Heberle:
No description specified

SEEK ID: https://fairdomhub.org/people/1283

Location:  Netherlands

Expertise: Not specified

Tools: Not specified

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-8707

help Alexander's tags

This person has not yet tagged anything.

Project positions

MESI-STRAT (University of Groningen)

Related items

MESI-STRAT

MESI-STRAT: Systems Medicine of Metabolic-Signaling Networks -A New Concept for Breast Cancer Patient Stratification.
Breast cancer is a complex disease with high prevalence in the European Union and world-wide. 75%-80 of the patients have estrogen receptor-positive (ER)-positive tumors and are treated with endocrine therapies. Endocrine therapies, which block ER-driven tumor growth, show high efficacy. Yet, a significant proportion of the patients will eventually relapse with metastatic breast
...

Programme: This Project is not associated with a Programme

Public web page: http://www.mesi-strat.eu

1 hidden item
The PI3K and MAPK/p38 pathways control stress granule assembly in a hierarchical manner
MESI-STRAT

Abstract (Expand)

All cells and organisms exhibit stress-coping mechanisms to ensure survival. Cytoplasmic protein-RNA assemblies termed stress granules are increasingly recognized to promote cellular survival under … stress. Thus, they might represent tumor vulnerabilities that are currently poorly explored. The translationinhibitory eIF2α kinases are established as main drivers of stress granule assembly. Using a systems approach, we identify the translation enhancers PI3K and MAPK/p38 as pro-stressgranule- kinases. They act through the metabolic master regulator mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) to promote stress granule assembly.When highly active, PI3K is the main driver of stress granules; however, the impact of p38 becomes apparent as PI3K activity declines. PI3K and p38 thus act in a hierarchical manner to drive mTORC1 activity and stress granule assembly. Of note, this signaling hierarchy is also present in human breast cancer tissue. Importantly, only the recognition of the PI3K-p38 hierarchy under stress enabled the discovery of p38’s role in stress granule formation. In summary, we assign a new prosurvival function to the key oncogenic kinases PI3K and p38, as they hierarchically promote stress granule formation.

Authors: Alexander Heberle, Patricia Razquin Navas, Miriam Langelaar-Makkinje, Katharina Kasack, Ahmed Sadik, Erik Faessler, Udo Hahn, Philip Marx-Stoelting, Christiane Opitz, Christine Sers, Ines Heiland, Sascha Schäuble, Kathrin Thedieck

Date Published: 28th Mar 2019

Journal: Life Sci. Alliance

3 hidden items
Powered by
 (v.1.9.1)
FAIRDOMHub | Funding and Programmes | Credits | Terms & Conditions | Imprint
Copyright © 2008 - 2019 The University of Manchester and HITS gGmbH