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Record W4414872989 · doi:10.1038/s41420-025-02692-6

Modulation of stress granules by lobeline increases cell death in hypoxia and impacts the ability of glioblastoma cells to secrete extracellular vesicles

2025· article· en· W4414872989 on OpenAlex
Kathleen M. Attwood, Lauren P. Westhaver, Aaron Robichaud, Jae Ho Han, Sidney Croul, Gabriel Wajnberg, Jeremy Roy, Adrienne Weeks

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Bibliographic record

VenueCell Death Discovery · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA Research and Splicing
Canadian institutionsAtlantic Cancer Research InstituteSaint John Regional HospitalDalhousie University
FundersDalhousie UniversityQEII Foundation
KeywordsStress granuleProgrammed cell deathExtracellularSecretionIntracellularHypoxia (environmental)Cellular stress responseExtracellular vesicleCell

Abstract

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating universally fatal primary brain cancer. Novel therapeutic strategies are required to alter disease course and improve survival in these patients. There is increasing evidence that modulating cancer's ability to respond to and survive cellular stress through RNA stress granules (SGs) may be a novel approach to cancer therapeutics. SGs are cytoplasmic aggregates of untranslated mRNAs and RNA binding proteins formed in response to a variety of cellular stressors, that allow cells to temporarily prioritize translation of stress-related proteins. A previous drug screen identified the dopamine modulator lobeline as a factor affecting SG disassembly in GBM cells. Lobeline impairs GBM cell survival by impairing SG disassembly after hypoxia. Specifically, after a hypoxic challenge, lobeline "locks" cells in a stressed state, even after re-exposure to normoxia. This is characterized by retained SGs, elevated levels of phosphorylated eIF2α and a sustained reduction in global protein translation. The disruption of the canonical stress response induced by lobeline ultimately results in increased cell death in both primary and immortalized GBM cell lines. Interestingly, lobeline also reduces post-hypoxia extracellular vesicle (EV) release, potentially through sequestration of the SG and EV protein, YBX1. Taken together, this adds to the literature that modulating stress and SG dynamics may be useful alone or to potentiate other treatment modalities affecting stress in GBM.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.483

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it