@nickvangastel.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UCLouvain, FNRS Research Associate, WELBIO Investigator and Group Leader at de Duve Institute, studying metabolism and microenvironment in hematopoiesis and leukemia. https://www.deduveinstitute.be/research-group/nick-van-gastel
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New preprint from the lab! In this study we dive into the mechanisms that give #leukemia cells #metabolic plasticity, and how it differs from healthy hematopoietic cells. We discovered a process involving rapid changes in protein S-acylation unique to leukemia!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Protein S-acylation dynamics provide metabolic plasticity to acute myeloid leukemia cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.708949v1
Congrats to co-first authors Nithya Balasundaram & @aysegulerdemm.bsky.social & all co-authors. I started this study when in David Scadden’s lab, and want to thank him for his continued support! Funding from the Belgian Foundation against Cancer, F.R.S.-FNRS and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation!
These discoveries originated from our finding that TOFA, a drug widely used to inhibit de novo lipogenesis, also inhibits protein S-acylation. This is a word of caution to other researchers using this drug, as it may inhibit many proteins using fatty acyl-CoA as substrate!
Healthy hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in contrast have high intrinsic mitochondrial #flexibility, readily switching to other nutrients when glutamine breakdown is blocked. This shows that leukemia cells handle metabolic stress differently, creating a therapeutic opportunity!
Protein S-acylation is a post-translational modification in which fatty acids are covalently bound to proteins. When #glutamine catabolism is blocked, increased S-acylation of #mitochondrial proteins with long saturated fatty acids preserves metabolic health and leukemia cell survival.
New preprint from the lab! In this study we dive into the mechanisms that give #leukemia cells #metabolic plasticity, and how it differs from healthy hematopoietic cells. We discovered a process involving rapid changes in protein S-acylation unique to leukemia!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Check our new review @naturerevgenet.bsky.social from the @alejofraticelli.bsky.social lab 🎉🎉
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With Victoria Parreno, we tried to update the modern manual for genetic tracing and clonal analysis.
Read link: rdcu.be/e50gy
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This week on #SimplyBlood 🩸 we're sitting down with the 2026 ISEH Vice President Jennifer Trowbridge @trowbridgelab.bsky.social, to hear about upcoming work in her role, the benefits of the ISEH community, advice for trainees and much more➡️ iseh.org/Publications... @macnamaralab.bsky.social
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@FraticelliLab
PREPRINT JUST WENT LIVE
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Here, we describe PLSTCs, Soluplus-based expansion cultures of primary mouse *Acute Myeloid Leukemia* Stem Cells. And then we use LARRY barcoding to identify drivers of leukemogenicity and drug resistance!
A big chunk of my postdoctoral work on cell-state dependent metabolism is now out at @cp-molcell.bsky.social: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... 1/
New paper from the lab! Acute myeloid #leukemia (AML) cells depend on nucleotide synthesis but blocking this pathway in patients comes with severe toxicity. We wondered if AML cells use EAAT transporters to take up aspartate, a key nutrient for nucleotide synthesis…
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Funding by Fondation Contre le Cancer, F.R.S-FNRS, de Duve Institute and @uclouvain.bsky.social
Future work in the lab will explore alternative ways to starve #AML cells of aspartate to improve therapeutic options for patients! Congrats to first author Hernán Tirado and co-authors Nithya Balasundaram, Jean Jacobs @chamslab.bsky.social, Fleur Leguay and Lotfi Laaouimir!
While AML cells express EAAT1, the transporter was not needed for AML growth or survival after #chemotherapy, neither in cell cultures nor in a mouse model. Our results further indicate that AML cells possess multiple mechanisms to acquire #aspartate, underscoring the importance of this #metabolite!
New paper from the lab! Acute myeloid #leukemia (AML) cells depend on nucleotide synthesis but blocking this pathway in patients comes with severe toxicity. We wondered if AML cells use EAAT transporters to take up aspartate, a key nutrient for nucleotide synthesis…
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Abstract submission just opened for #ISEH2026 in Frankfurt. Outstanding scientific program; welcoming community; and more than double the number of short talk slots for abstract to be presented in. Looking forward to seeing you there. @isehsociety.bsky.social
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