Publications and communications of Akeila Bellahcene

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

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

Richiardone, E., Al Roumi, R., Lardinois, F., Giolito, M. V., Ambroise, J., Boidot, R., Drotleff, B., Ghesquière, B., Bellahcene, A., Bardelli, A., Arena, S., & Corbet, C. (28 August 2024). MCT1-dependent lactate recycling is a metabolic vulnerability in colorectal cancer cells upon acquired resistance to anti-EGFR targeted therapy. Cancer Letters, 598, 217091. doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2024.217091

Ruscitti, C., Abinet, J., Maréchal, P., Meunier, M., de Meeûs, C., Vanneste, D., Janssen, P., Dourcy, M., Thiry, M., Bureau, F., Schneider, C., Machiels, B., Hidalgo, A., Ginhoux, F., Dewals, B. G., Guiot, J., Schleich, F., Garigliany, M.-M., Bellahcene, A., ... Marichal, T.*. (02 August 2024). Recruited atypical Ly6G+ macrophages license alveolar regeneration after lung injury. Science Immunology, 9 (98), 1227. doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.ado1227

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

Dube, G., Tiamiou, A., Bizet, M., Boumahd, Y., Gasmi, I., Crake, R., Bellier, J., Nokin, M.-J., Calonne, E., Deplus, R., Wissocq, T., Peulen, O., Castronovo, V., Fuks, F., & Bellahcene, A. (31 March 2023). Methylglyoxal: a novel upstream regulator of DNA methylation. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, 42 (1), 78. doi:10.1186/s13046-023-02637-w

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

Peiffer, R., Boumahd, Y., Gullo, C., Crake, R., Letellier, E., Bellahcene, A., & Peulen, O. (22 December 2022). Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Diversity Shapes Tumor Metabolism in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancers, 15 (1), 61. doi:10.3390/cancers15010061

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

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

Chiavarina, B., Costanza, B., Ronca, R., Blomme, A., Rezzola, S., Chiodelli, P., Giguelay, A., Belthier, G., Doumont, G., Van Simaeys, G., Lacroix, S., Yokobori, T., Erkhem-Ochir, B., Balaguer, P., Cavailles, V., Fabbrizio, E., Di Valentin, E., Gofflot, S., Detry, O., ... Turtoi, A. (January 2021). Metastatic colorectal cancer cells maintain the TGFβ program and use TGFBI to fuel angiogenesis. Theranostics, 11 (4), 1626-1640. doi:10.7150/thno.51507

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

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

Peulen, O., Rademaker, G., Anania, S., Turtoi, A., Bellahcene, A., & Castronovo, V. (August 2019). Ferlin overview: from membrane to cancer biology. Cells, 8, 954. doi:10.3390/cells8090954

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

Costanza, B., Rademaker, G., Tiamiou, A., De Tullio, P., Leenders, J., Blomme, A., Bellier, J., Bianchi, E., Turtoi, A., Delvenne, P., Bellahcene, A., Peulen, O.* , & Castronovo, V.*. (2019). TGFBI, an ECM interacting protein, enhances glycolysis and promotes pancreatic cancer cell migration. International Journal of Cancer. doi:10.1002/ijc.32247

Nokin, M.-J., Bellier, J., Durieux, F., Peulen, O., Rademaker, G., Gabriel, M., Monseur, C., CHARLOTEAUX, B., Verbeke, L., van Laere, S., RONCARATI, P., Herfs, M., Lambert, C., Scheijen, J., Schalkwijk, C., Colige, A., Caers, J., Delvenne, P., Turtoi, A., ... Bellahcene, A. (2019). Methylglyoxal, a glycolysis metabolite, triggers metastasis through MEK/ERK/SMAD1 pathway activation in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research, 21(1, 11. doi:10.1186/s13058-018-1095-7

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

Rademaker, G., Hennequière, V., Nokin, M.-J., LOVINFOSSE, P., Durieux, F., GOFFLOT, S., Bellier, J., Costanza, B., Herfs, M., Peiffer, R., Bettendorff, L., Deroanne, C., Thiry, M., Delvenne, P., Hustinx, R., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Peulen, O. (April 2018). Myoferlin controls mitochondrial structure and activity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, and affects tumor aggressiveness. Oncogene, 37 ((32)), 4398-4412. doi:10.1038/s41388-018-0287-z

Costanza, B., Turtoi, A., Bellahcene, A., Hirano, T., Peulen, O., Blomme, A., Hennequiere, J., MUTIJIMA NZARAMBA, E., Boniver, J., Meuwis, M.-A., JOSSE, C., KOOPMANSCH, B., SEGERS, K., Yokobori, T., Fahmy, K., Thiry, M., COIMBRA MARQUES, C., Garbacki, N., Colige, A., ... Castronovo, V. (2018). Innovative methodology for the identification of soluble biomarkers in fresh tissues. Oncotarget, 9 (12), 10665-10680. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24366

Chiavarina, B., Nokin, M.-J., Bellier, J., Durieux, F., BLETARD, N., Sherer, F., LOVINFOSSE, P., Peulen, O., Verset, L., Dehon, R., Demetter, P., Turtoi, A., Uchida, K., Goldman, S., Hustinx, R., Delvenne, P., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (2017). Methylglyoxal-Mediated Stress Correlates with High Metabolic Activity and Promotes Tumor Growth in Colorectal Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18 (1). doi:10.3390/ijms18010213

Nokin, M.-J., Durieux, F., Bellier, J., Peulen, O., Uchida, K., Spiegel, D. A., Cochrane, J. R., Hutton, C. A., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (2017). Hormetic potential of methylglyoxal, a side-product of glycolysis, in switching tumours from growth to death. Scientific Reports, 7 (1), 11722. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12119-7

Blomme, A., Fahmy, K., Peulen, O., Costanza, B., Fontaine, M., Struman, I., Baiwir, D., De Pauw, E., Thiry, M., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V.* , & Turtoi, A.*. (2016). Myoferlin is a novel exosomal protein and functional regulator of cancer-derived exosomes. Oncotarget. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.13276

Nokin, M.-J., Durieux, F., Peixoto, P., Chiavarina, B., Peulen, O., Blomme, A., Turtoi, A., Costanza, B., Smargiasso, N., Baiwir, D., Scheijen, J., Schalkwijk, C., Leenders, J., De Tullio, P., BIANCHI, E., Thiry, M., Uchida, K., Spiegel, D., Cochrane, J., ... Bellahcene, A. (2016). Methylglyoxal, a glycolysis side-product, induces Hsp90 glycation and YAP- mediated tumor growth and metastasis. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.19375

Henry, A., Nokin, M.-J., Leroi, N., Lallemand, F., Lambert, J., Goffart, N., RONCARATI, P., BIANCHI, E., Peixoto, P., Blomme, A., Turtoi, A., Peulen, O., Habraken, Y., Scholtes, F., Martinive, P., Delvenne, P., Rogister, B., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (2016). New role of osteopontin in DNA repair and impact on human glioblastoma radiosensitivity. Oncotarget. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.11483

Binsfeld, M., Muller, J., Lamour, V., De Veirman, K., De Raeve, H., Bellahcene, A., Van Valckenborgh, E., BARON, F., BEGUIN, Y., CAERS, J., & Heusschen, R. (2016). Granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells promote angiogenesis in the context of multiple myeloma. Oncotarget, 7, 37931-37943. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.9270

Blomme, A., Cusumano, P., Peulen, O., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Turtoi, A. (2016). L'asporine : une nouvelle defense naturelle contre le cancer du sein. MS. Medecine Sciences, 32 (11), 1019-1022. doi:10.1051/medsci/20163211020

Fradet, A., Bouchet, M., Delliaux, C., Gervais, M., Kan, C., Benetollo, C., Pantano, F., Vargas, G., Bouazza, L., Croset, M., Bala, Y., Leroy, X., Rosol, T. J., Rieusset, J., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., Aubin, J. E., Clezardin, P., Duterque-Coquillaud, M., & Bonnelye, E. (2016). Estrogen related receptor alpha in castration-resistant prostate cancer cells promotes tumor progression in bone. Oncotarget, 7 (47), 77071-77086. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.12787

Maris, P., Blomme, A., Palacios, A. P., Costanza, B., Bellahcene, A., BIANCHI, E., GOFFLOT, S., Drion, P., Trombino, G. E., Di Valentin, E., CUSUMANO, G., MAWEJA, S., JERUSALEM, G., Delvenne, P., LIFRANGE, E., Castronovo, V., & Turtoi, A. (2015). Asporin Is a Fibroblast-Derived TGF-beta1 Inhibitor and a Tumor Suppressor Associated with Good Prognosis in Breast Cancer. PLoS Medicine, 12 (9), 1001871. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001871

Mskhiladze, L., Chincharadze, D., Tits, M., Wauters, J.-N., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., Mouithys-Mickalad, A., Franck, T., & Frederich, M. (2015). Identification of Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Compounds from Allium gramineum Flowers. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, 7, 78-82.

Chiavarina, B.* , Nokin, M.-J.* , Durieux, F., BIANCHI, E., Turtoi, A., Peulen, O., Peixoto, P., Irigaray, P., Uchida, K., Belpomme, D., Delvenne, P., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (2014). Triple negative tumors accumulate significantly less methylglyoxal specific adducts than other human breast cancer subtypes. Oncotarget. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2121

Tilli, T. M., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Gimba, E. R. P. (2014). Changes in the transcriptional profile in response to overexpression of the osteopontin-c splice isoform in ovarian (OvCar-3) and prostate (PC-3) cancer cell lines. BMC Cancer, 14, 433. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-433

bournine, L., Bensalem, S., Wauters, J.-N., Iguer-Ouada, M., Maiza-Benabdesselam, F., Bedjou, F., Castronovo, V., Bellahcene, A., Tits, M., & Frederich, M. (2013). Identification and Quantification of the Main Active Anticancer Alkaloids from the Root of Glaucium flavum. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 14, 23533-23544. doi:10.3390/ijms141223533

Fradet, A., Sorel, H., Depalle, B., Serre, C. M., Farlay, D., Turtoi, A., Bellahcene, A., Follet, H., Castronovo, V., Clezardin, P., & Bonnelye, E. (2013). A new murine model of osteoblastic/osteolytic lesions from human androgen-resistant prostate cancer. PLoS ONE, 8 (9), 75092. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075092

Lamour, V., Nokin, M.-J., Henry, A., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (2013). Les proteines SIBLING - Outils moleculaires de la progression tumorale et de l'angiogenese. MS. Medecine Sciences, 29 (11), 1018-25. doi:10.1051/medsci/20132911019

Turtoi, A.* , Blomme, A.* , Bellahcene, A., Gilles, C., Hennequière, V., Peixoto, P., BIANCHI, E., Noël, A., De Pauw, E., LIFRANGE, E., Delvenne, P., & Castronovo, V. (2013). Myoferlin is a key regulator of EGFR activity in breast cancer. Cancer Research, 73, 5438-5448. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-1142

Dumont, B., Castronovo, V., Peulen, O., BLETARD, N., Clézardin, P., Delvenne, P., De Pauw, E., Turtoi, A., & Bellahcene, A. (2012). Differential proteomic analysis of a human breast tumor and its matched bone metastasis identifies cell membrane and extracellular proteins associated with bone metastasis. Journal of Proteome Research. doi:10.1021/pr201022n

Tilli, T. M., Mello, K. D., Ferreira, L. B., Matos, A. R., Accioly, M. T., Faria, P. A., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., & Gimba, E. R. (2012). Both osteopontin-c and osteopontin-b splicing isoforms exert pro-tumorigenic roles in prostate cancer cells. Prostate. doi:10.1002/pros.22523

Turtoi, A., Mottet, D., Matheus, N., Dumont, B., Peixoto, P., Hennequière, V., Deroanne, C., Colige, A., De Pauw, E., Bellahcene, A., & Castronovo, V. (2012). The angiogenesis suppressor gene AKAP12 is under the epigenetic control of HDAC7 in endothelial cells. Angiogenesis. doi:10.1007/s10456-012-9279-8

Fradet, A., Sorel, H., Bouazza, L., Goehrig, D., Depalle, B., Bellahcene, A., Castronovo, V., Follet, H., Descotes, F., Aubin, J. E., Clezardin, P., & Bonnelye, E. (2011). Dual function of ERR alpha in breast cancer and bone metastasis formation: implication of VEGF and osteoprotegerin. Cancer Research, 71 (17), 5728-38. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-1431

Kischel, P., Guillonneau, F., Dumont, B., Bellahcene, A., Stresing, V., Clezardin, P., De Pauw, E., & Castronovo, V. (2008). Cell membrane proteomic analysis identifies proteins differentially expressed in osteotropic human breast cancer cells. Neoplasia, 10 (9), 1014-20. doi:10.1593/neo.08570

Lamour, V., Detry, C., Sanchez, C., Henrotin, Y., Castronovo, V., & Bellahcene, A. (14 December 2007). Runx2-and histone deacetylase 3-mediated repression is relieved in differentiating human osteoblast cells to allow high bone sialoprotein expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 (50), 36240-36249. doi:10.1074/jbc.M705833200

Bellahcene, A., Merville, M.-P., Gielen Jacques, Lambotte, R., Simar, L., & Castronovo, V. (01 May 1994). La protéine P53, protectrice de l'intégrité du génome: rôle dans la genèse des cancers. Revue Médicale de Liège, 49 (5), 274-84.

Costanza, B., Blomme, A., Bellahcene, A., Peulen, O., MUTIJIMA NZARAMBA, E., DELVENNE, P., De Pauw, E., DETRY, O., COIMBRA MARQUES, C., Castronovo, V., & Turtoi, A. (2016). EXPEL: A Novel Non-Destructive Method for Mining Soluble Tumor Biomarkers. Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica, 79 (1), 11.

Binsfeld, M., Heusschen, R., Lamour, V., Van Valckenborgh, E., Bellahcene, A., Baron, F., BEGUIN, Y., & CAERS, J. (2014). Multiple myeloma cells instruct myeloid-derived suppressor cells to release pro-angiogenic cytokines. Belgian Journal of Hematology.