Cecilia Caino, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Professional Titles
- Assistant Professor
Publications
- Caino MC, Seo JH, Wang Y, Rivadeneira DB, Gabrilovich DI, Kim ET, Weeraratna AT, Languino LR, Altieri DC. Syntaphilin controls a mitochondrial rheostat for proliferation-motility decisions in cancer. J Clin Invest. 2017 Oct 2;127(10):3755-3769. PubMed PMID: 28891816
- Behera R, Kaur A, Webster MR, Kim S, Ndoye A, Kugel CH 3rd, Alicea GM, Wang J, Ghosh K, Cheng P, Lisanti S, Marchbank K, Dang V, Levesque M, Dummer R, Xu X, Herlyn M, Aplin AE, Roesch A, Caino C, Altieri DC, Weeraratna AT. Inhibition of Age-Related Therapy Resistance in Melanoma by Rosiglitazone-Mediated Induction of Klotho. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jun 15;23(12):3181-3190. PubMed PMID: 28232477
- Seo JH, Agarwal E, Bryant KG, Caino MC, Kim ET, Kossenkov AV, Tang HY, Languino LR, Gabrilovich DI, Cohen AR, Speicher DW, Altieri DC. Syntaphilin Ubiquitination Regulates Mitochondrial Dynamics and Tumor Cell Movements. Cancer Res. 2018 Aug 1;78(15):4215-4228. PubMed PMID: 29898993
- Williams M, Caino MC. Mitochondrial Dynamics in Type 2 Diabetes and Cancer. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2018;9:211. PubMed PMID: 29755415
- Lee YG, Nam Y, Shin KJ, Yoon S, Park WS, Joung JY, Seo JK, Jang J, Lee S, Nam D, Caino MC, Suh PG, Chan Chae Y. Androgen-induced expression of DRP1 regulates mitochondrial metabolic reprogramming in prostate cancer. Cancer Lett. 2020 Feb 28;471:72-87. PubMed PMID: 31838085
- Wheeler LJ, Watson ZL, Qamar L, Yamamoto TM, Sawyer BT, Sullivan KD, Khanal S, Joshi M, Ferchaud-Roucher V, Smith H, Vanderlinden LA, Brubaker SW, Caino CM, Kim H, Espinosa JM, Richer JK, Bitler BG. Multi-Omic Approaches Identify Metabolic and Autophagy Regulators Important in Ovarian Cancer Dissemination. iScience. 2019 Sep 27;19:474-491. PubMed PMID: 31437751
- Furnish M, Caino MC. “Altered mitochondrial trafficking as a novel mechanism of cancer metastasis”. Cancer Reports. In Press(2019):e1157. NIHMSID: NIHMS1006551.doi: 10.1002/cnr2.1157.
- Li J, Agarwal E, Bertolini I, Seo JH, Caino MC, Ghosh JC, Kossenkov AV, Liu Q, Tang HY, Goldman AR, Languino LR, Speicher DW, Altieri DC. The mitophagy effector FUNDC1 controls mitochondrial reprogramming and cellular plasticity in cancer cells. Sci Signal. 2020 Jul 28;13(642). PubMed PMID: 32723812
- Furnish M, Caino MC. Altered mitochondrial trafficking as a novel mechanism of cancer metastasis. Cancer Rep (Hoboken). 2020 Feb;3(1):e1157. PubMed PMID: 32671955
- Alicea GM, Rebecca VW, Goldman AR, Fane ME, Douglass SM, Behera R, Webster MR, Kugel CH 3rd, Ecker BL, Caino MC, Kossenkov AV, Tang HY, Frederick DT, Flaherty KT, Xu X, Liu Q, Gabrilovich DI, Herlyn M, Blair IA, Schug ZT, Speicher DW, Weeraratna AT. Changes in Aged Fibroblast Lipid Metabolism Induce Age-Dependent Melanoma Cell Resistance to Targeted Therapy via the Fatty Acid Transporter FATP2. Cancer Discov. 2020 Sep;10(9):1282-1295. PubMed PMID: 32499221
- Lee YG, Nam Y, Shin KJ, Yoon S, Park WS, Joung JY, Seo JK, Jang J, Lee S, Nam D, Caino MC, Suh PG, Chan Chae Y. Androgen-induced expression of DRP1 regulates mitochondrial metabolic reprogramming in prostate cancer. Cancer Lett. 2020 Feb 28;471:72-87. PubMed PMID: 31838085
- Towers CG, Wodetzki DK, Thorburn J, Smith KR, Caino MC, Thorburn A. Mitochondrial-derived vesicles compensate for loss of LC3-mediated mitophagy. Dev Cell. 2021 Jul 26;56(14):2029-2042.e5. PubMed PMID: 34171288
- O'Neill KI, Kuo LW, Williams MM, Lind H, Crump LS, Hammond NG, Spoelstra NS, Caino MC, Richer JK. NPC1 Confers Metabolic Flexibility in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Jul 21;14(14). PubMed PMID: 35884604
- Boulton DP, Caino MC. Mitochondrial Fission and Fusion in Tumor Progression to Metastasis. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022;10:849962. PubMed PMID: 35356277
- Ghosh JC, Perego M, Agarwal E, Bertolini I, Wang Y, Goldman AR, Tang HY, Kossenkov AV, Landis CJ, Languino LR, Plow EF, Morotti A, Ottobrini L, Locatelli M, Speicher DW, Caino MC, Cassel J, Salvino JM, Robert ME, Vaira V, Altieri DC. Ghost mitochondria drive metastasis through adaptive GCN2/Akt therapeutic vulnerability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 22;119(8). PubMed PMID: 35177476
- Furnish M, Boulton DP, Genther V, Grofova D, Ellinwood ML, Romero L, Lucia MS, Cramer SD, Caino MC. MIRO2 Regulates Prostate Cancer Cell Growth via GCN1-Dependent Stress Signaling. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 Apr 1;20(4):607-621. PubMed PMID: 34992146
- Ohm AM, Affandi T, Reisz JA, Caino MC, D'Alessandro A, Reyland ME. Metabolic reprogramming contributes to radioprotection by protein kinase Cd. J Biol Chem. 2023 Oct;299(10):105186. PubMed PMID: 37611829
- Yeon M, Bertolini I, Agarwal E, Ghosh JC, Tang HY, Speicher DW, Keeney F, Sossey-Alaoui K, Pluskota E, Bialkowska K, Plow EF, Languino LR, Skordalakes E, Caino MC, Altieri DC. Parkin ubiquitination of Kindlin-2 enables mitochondria-associated metastasis suppression. J Biol Chem. 2023 Jun;299(6):104774. PubMed PMID: 37142218