Publications and communications of Naïma Maloujahmoum

Gullo, C.* , Laverdeur, E.* , Dancre, M., Peiffer, R., Boumahd, Y., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Désiront, L., Thiry, M., Rademaker, G., Bellahcene, A., & Peulen, O. (28 November 2025). Focal adhesion assembly and cell migration require myoferlin in PDAC cell lines. Scientific Reports, 15 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-27134-2
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Peiffer, R., Laverdeur, E., Gaigneaux, A., Boumahd, Y., Gullo, C., Rademaker, G., Crake, R., Lavergne, A., Maloujahmoum, N., Agirman, F., Herfs, M., Masamune, A., Letellier, E., Bellahcene, A., & Peulen, O. (2025). Targeting myoferlin in ER/Golgi vesicle trafficking reprograms pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts. EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/s44318-025-00570-6

Anania, S., Farnir, M., Peiffer, R., Boumahd, Y., Thiry, M., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Bellahcene, A., & Peulen, O. (17 February 2024). Identification of myoferlin as a mitochondria-associated membranes component required for calcium signaling in PDAC cell lines. Cell Communication and Signaling, 22 (1), 133. doi:10.1186/s12964-024-01514-z

Crake, R., Gasmi, I., Dehaye, J., Lardinois, F., Peiffer, R., Maloujahmoum, N., Agirman, F., KOOPMANSCH, B., D’Haene, N., Azurmendi Senar, O., Arsenijevic, T., Lambert, F., Peulen, O., Van Laethem, J.-L., & Bellahcene, A. (17 May 2023). Resistance to Gemcitabine in Pancreatic Cancer Is Connected to Methylglyoxal Stress and Heat Shock Response. Cells, 12 (10), 1414. doi:10.3390/cells12101414

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Bellier, J., Herfs, M., Peiffer, R., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Habraken, Y., Delvenne, P., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (02 March 2023). Correction: Human colon cancer cells highly express myoferlin to maintain a fit mitochondrial network and escape p53-driven apoptosis. Oncogenesis, 12 (1), 11. doi:10.1038/s41389-023-00455-5

Mouziane, L., Crake, R., Maloujahmoum, N., Agirman, F., Roncarati, P., Herfs, M., & Bellahcene, A. (30 September 2022). Characterisation of methylglyoxal stress in human colorectal cancer and liver metastases using immunohistochemistry [Poster presentation]. BACR, Gent, Belgium.

Rademaker, G.* , Boumahd, Y.* , Peiffer, R., Anania, S., Wissocq, T., Liégeois, M., Luis, G., Sounni, N. E., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., De Tullio, P., Thiry, M., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (July 2022). Myoferlin targeting triggers mitophagy and primes ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. Redox Biology, 53, 102324. doi:10.1016/j.redox.2022.102324
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Boumahd, Y., Rademaker, G., Peiffer, R., Anania, S., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Bellahcene, A., & Peulen, O. (22 June 2022). Myoferlin targeting triggers mitophagy and primes ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells [Poster presentation]. EACR 2022.

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Pyr Dit Ruys, S., Peiffer, R., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Vertommen, D., Turtoi, A., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V.* , & Peulen, O.*. (2022). Paladin, overexpressed in colon cancer, is required for actin polymerisation and liver metastasis dissemination. Oncogenesis, 11, 42. doi:10.1038/s41389-022-00416-4
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Crake, R., Agirman, F., Arsenijevic, T., Maloujahmoum, N., Peulen, O., Van Laethem, J.-L., & Bellahcene, A. (14 October 2021). Improving pancreatic cancer response to gemcitabine by overcoming methylglyoxal driven suppression of AMPK [Poster presentation]. GIGA-Cancer Day, Liege, Belgium.

Luis, G.* , Godfroid, A.* , Nishiumi, S., Cimino, J., Blacher, S., Maquoi, E., Wery, C., Collignon, A., Longuespée, R., MONTERORUIZ, L., Dassoul, I., Maloujahmoum, N., Pottier, C., Mazzucchelli, G., De Pauw, E., Bellahcene, A., Yoshida, M., Noël, A., & Sounni, N. E. (2021). Tumor resistance to ferroptosis driven by Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 (SCD1) in cancer cells and Fatty Acid Biding Protein-4 (FABP4) in tumor microenvironment promote tumor recurrence. Redox Biology, 43, 102006. doi:10.1016/j.redox.2021.102006
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Anania, S., Peiffer, R., Rademaker, G., Hego, A., Thiry, M., Deldicque, L., Francaux, M., Maloujahmoum, N., Agirman, F., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (21 June 2020). Myoferlin is a yet unknown interactor of the mitochondrial dynamics’ machinery in pancreas cancer cells. Cancers, 12 (6), 1643. doi:10.3390/cancers12061643

Bellier, J., Nokin, M.-J., Caprasse, M., Tiamiou, A., Blomme, A., Scheijen, J. L., KOOPMANSCH, B., MacKay, G. M., Chiavarina, B., Costanza, B., Rademaker, G., Durieux, F., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Cusumano, P. G., LOVINFOSSE, P., Leung, H. Y., LAMBERT, F., Bours, V., ... Bellahcene, A. (04 February 2020). Methylglyoxal Scavengers Resensitize KRAS-Mutated Colorectal Tumors to Cetuximab. Cell Reports, 30 (5), 1400-1416.e6. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.012

Anania, S., Rademaker, G., Peiffer, R., Hego, A., Deldicque, L., Maloujahmoum, N., Agirman, F., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (February 2020). Role of myoferlin in mitochondrial dynamics and metabolic fitness of pancreas cancer [Poster presentation]. BACR Annual Meeting 2020 - Cancer metastases: from bedside to bench, Brussels, Belgium.

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Bellier, J., Herfs, M., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (26 November 2019). Myoferlin depletion induces DNA damage response and p53- dependent cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in colon cancer [Poster presentation]. Metabolism in Cancer and Stromal Cells (2nd edition), Leuven, Belgium.

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Anania, S., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (23 October 2019). Myoferlin Contributes to the Metastatic Phenotype of Pancreatic Cancer Cells by Enhancing Their Migratory Capacity Through the Control of Oxidative Phosphorylation [Poster presentation]. Pancreatic Cancer Symposium, Toulouse, France.

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Anania, S., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (13 June 2019). Myoferlin Contributes to the Metastatic Phenotype of Pancreatic Cancer Cells by Enhancing Their Migratory Capacity Through the Control of Oxidative Phosphorylation [Poster presentation]. Belgian Society for Cell and Developmental Biology - Spring Meeting, Liège, Belgium.

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Anania, S., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Di Valentin, E., Goval, J.-J., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (June 2019). Myoferlin contributes to the metastatic phenotype of pancreatic cancer cells by enhancing their migratory capacity through the control of oxidative phosphorylation. Cancers, 11 (6). doi:10.3390/cancers11060853

Rademaker, G., Costanza, B., Bellier, J., Herfs, M., Peiffer, R., Agirman, F., Maloujahmoum, N., Habraken, Y., Delvenne, P., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V.* , & Peulen, O.*. (2019). Human colon cancer cells highly express myoferlin to maintain a fit mitochondrial network and escape p53-driven apoptosis. Oncogenesis. doi:10.1038/s41389-019-0130-6
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.