Dr Marco Sciacovelli
Position: Research Associate
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My research focuses on the role of metabolic reprogramming during transformation and tumour evolution. We are interested in kidney cancer and we study Fumarate hydratase (FH)- deficient tumours as a model to understand the effect of metabolic alterations in tumorigenesis.
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Gonçalves, E., Sciacovelli, M., Costa, A.S.H., Tran, M.G.B. et al. “Post-translational regulation of metabolism in fumarate hydratase deficient cancer cells”. (2018) Metabolic Engineering
Tyrakis, P.A., Yurkovich, M.E., Sciacovelli, M., Papachristou, E.K. et al. “Fumarate Hydratase Loss Causes Combined Respiratory Chain Defects”. (2017) Cell Reports
Connor, T.M., Hoer, S., Mallett, A., Gale, D.P., Gomez-Duran, A., Posse, V., Antrobus, R., Moreno, P., Sciacovelli, M. et al. “Mutations in mitochondrial DNA causing tubulointerstitial kidney disease”. (2017) PLoS Genetics
Sciacovelli M, Gonçalves E, Johnson TI, Zecchini VR, da Costa AS, Gaude E, Drubbel AV, Theobald SJ, Abbo SR, Tran MG, Rajeeve V, Cardaci S, Foster S, Yun H, Cutillas P, Warren A, Gnanapragasam V, Gottlieb E, Franze K, Huntly B, Maher ER, Maxwell PH, Saez-Rodriguez J, Frezza C. Fumarate is an epigenetic modifier that elicits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
Nature. 2016
Zheng L, Cardaci S, Jerby L, MacKenzie ED, Sciacovelli M, Johnson TI, Gaude E, King A, Leach JD, Edrada-Ebel R, Hedley A, Morrice NA, Kalna G, Blyth K, Ruppin E, Frezza C, Gottlieb E. Fumarate induces redox-dependent senescence by modifying glutathione metabolism.
Nat Commun. 2015
Clark GR, Sciacovelli M, Gaude E, Walsh DM, Kirby G, Simpson MA, Trembath RC, Berg JN, Woodward ER, Kinning E, Morrison PJ, Frezza C, Maher ER. Germline FH mutations presenting with pheochromocytoma.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2014
Sciacovelli M, Guzzo G, Morello V, Frezza C, Zheng L, Nannini N, Calabrese F, Laudiero G, Esposito F, Landriscina M, Defilippi P, Bernardi P, Rasola A. The mitochondrial chaperone TRAP1 promotes neoplastic growth by inhibiting succinate dehydrogenase. Cell Metab. 2013