ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-020717-13
Mione, Marina
Email: mariacaterina.mione@unitn.it
URL: http://www.cibio.unitn.it/465/laboratory-of-experimental-cancer-biology
Affiliation: Mione Lab
Address: Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento Via Sommarive 9, 38123 Trento - Italy
Country: Italy
Phone: +39 0461 28 3312
Fax: +39 0461 28 3937
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9040-3705


BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research projects:

We study the early events in cancer, focusing on molecular and cellular aspects of transformation, clonal expansion and exploitation of host resources that characterize cancer-initiating cells. We have developed powerful systems to initiate cancer in different organs and stages of development, with the goal of understanding the mechanisms of transformation, visualize transformed cells in vivo and establish platforms for genetic and chemical screens. A number of projects are carried out in the lab in collaboration with clinicians, system biologists and technologists.


PUBLICATIONS
Pezzotta, A., Brioschi, L., Carbone, S., Mazzoleni, B., Bontempi, V., Monastra, F., Mauri, L., Marozzi, A., Mione, M., Pistocchi, A., Viani, P. (2023) Combined Inhibition of Hedgehog and HDAC6: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies Reveal a New Role for Lysosomal Stress in Reducing Glioblastoma Cell Viability. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(6):
Rosello, M., Serafini, M., Mignani, L., Finazzi, D., Giovannangeli, C., Mione, M.C., Concordet, J.P., Del Bene, F. (2022) Disease modeling by efficient genome editing using a near PAM-less base editor in vivo. Nature communications. 13:3435
Biagini, V., Busi, F., Anelli, V., Kerschbamer, E., Baghini, M., Gurrieri, E., Notarangelo, M., Pesce, I., van Niel, G., D'Agostino, V.G., Mione, M. (2022) Zebrafish Melanoma-Derived Interstitial EVs Are Carriers of ncRNAs That Induce Inflammation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(10)
Rosello, M., Vougny, J., Czarny, F., Mione, M.C., Concordet, J.P., Albadri, S., Del Bene, F. (2021) Precise base editing for the in vivo study of developmental signaling and human pathologies in zebrafish. eLIFE. 10:
Lefkopoulos, S., Polyzou, A., Derecka, M., Bergo, V., Clapes, T., Cauchy, P., Jerez-Longres, C., Onishi-Seebacher, M., Yin, N., Martagon-Calderón, N.A., Potts, K.S., Klaeylé, L., Liu, F., Bowman, T.V., Jenuwein, T., Mione, M.C., Trompouki, E. (2020) Repetitive Elements Trigger RIG-I-like Receptor Signaling that Regulates the Emergence of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Immunity. 53:934-951.e9
Idilli, A.I., Pagani, F., Kerschbamer, E., Berardinelli, F., Bernabé, M., Cayuela, M.L., Piazza, S., Poliani, P.L., Cusanelli, E., Mione, M.C. (2020) Changes in the Expression of Pre-Replicative Complex Genes in hTERT and ALT Pediatric Brain Tumors. Cancers. 12(4)
Idilli, A.I., Cusanelli, E., Pagani, F., Berardinelli, F., Bernabé, M., Cayuela, M.L., Poliani, P.L., Mione, M.C. (2020) Expression of tert Prevents ALT in Zebrafish Brain Tumors. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 8:65
Misselbeck, K., Parolo, S., Lorenzini, F., Savoca, V., Leonardelli, L., Bora, P., Morine, M.J., Mione, M.C., Domenici, E., Priami, C. (2019) A network-based approach to identify deregulated pathways and drug effects in metabolic syndrome. Nature communications. 10:5215
Gómez-Abenza, E., Ibáñez-Molero, S., García-Moreno, D., Fuentes, I., Zon, L.I., Mione, M.C., Cayuela, M.L., Gabellini, C., Mulero, V. (2019) Zebrafish modeling reveals that SPINT1 regulates the aggressiveness of skin cutaneous melanoma and its crosstalk with tumor immune microenvironment. Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR. 38:405
Dickmeis, T., Feng, Y., Mione, M.C., Ninov, N., Santoro, M., Spaink, H.P., Gut, P. (2019) Nano-Sampling and Reporter Tools to Study Metabolic Regulation in Zebrafish. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 7:15
Salama, M., Benitez-Riquelme, D., Elabd, S., Munoz, L., Zhang, P., Glanemann, M., Mione, M.C., Goldin, R., Soussi, T., Davidson, G., Blattner, C. (2019) Fam83F induces p53 stabilisation and promotes its activity. Cell death and differentiation. 26(10):2125-2138
Cayuela, M.L., Claes, K.B.M., Ferreira, M.G., Henriques, C.M., van Eeden, F., Varga, M., Vierstraete, J., Mione, M.C. (2019) The Zebrafish as an Emerging Model to Study DNA Damage in Aging, Cancer and Other Diseases. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 6:178
Zizioli, D., Mione, M., Varinelli, M., Malagola, M., Bernardi, S., Alghisi, E., Borsani, G., Finazzi, D., Monti, E., Presta, M., Russo, D. (2018) Zebrafish disease models in hematology: Highlights on biological and translational impact. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease. 1865(3):620-633
Anelli, V., Ordas, A., Kneitz, S., Sagredo, L.M., Gourain, V., Schartl, M., Meijer, A.H., Mione, M. (2018) Ras-Induced miR-146a and 193a Target Jmjd6 to Regulate Melanoma Progression. Frontiers in genetics. 9:675
Piragyte, I., Clapes, T., Polyzou, A., Klein Geltink, R.I., Lefkopoulos, S., Yin, N., Cauchy, P., Curtis, J.D., Klaeylé, L., Langa, X., Beckmann, C.C.A., Wlodarski, M.W., Müller, P., Van Essen, D., Rambold, A., Kapp, F.G., Mione, M., Buescher, J.M., Pearce, E.L., Polyzos, A., Trompouki, E. (2018) A metabolic interplay coordinated by HLX regulates myeloid differentiation and AML through partly overlapping pathways. Nature communications. 9:3090
Schorch, B., Heni, H., Zahaf, N.I., Brummer, T., Mione, M., Schmidt, G., Papatheodorou, P., Aktories, K. (2018) Targeting oncogenic Ras by the Clostridium perfringens toxin TpeL.. Oncotarget. 9:16489-16500
Chia, K., Mazzolini, J., Mione, M., Sieger, D. (2018) Tumor initiating cells induce Cxcr4-mediated infiltration of pro-tumoral macrophages into the brain. eLIFE. 7
Idilli, A.I., Precazzini, F., Mione, M.C., Anelli, V. (2017) Zebrafish in Translational Cancer Research: Insight into Leukemia, Melanoma, Glioma and Endocrine Tumor Biology. Genes. 8(9)
Ibarra, M.S., Borini Etichetti, C., Di Benedetto, C., Rosano, G.L., Margarit, E., Del Sal, G., Mione, M., Girardini, J. (2017) Dynamic regulation of Pin1 expression and function during zebrafish development. PLoS One. 12:e0175939
Mayrhofer, M., Gourain, V., Reischl, M., Affaticati, P., Jenett, A., Joly, J.S., Benelli, M., Demichelis, F., Poliani, P.L., Sieger, D., Mione, M. (2017) A novel brain tumour model in zebrafish reveals the role of YAP activation in MAPK/PI3K induced malignant growth. Disease models & mechanisms. 10(1):15-28
Schutera, M., Dickmeis, T., Mione, M., Peravali, R., Marcato, D., Reischl, M., Mikut, R., Pylatiuk, C. (2016) Automated Phenotype Pattern Recognition of Zebrafish for High-throughput Screening. Bioengineered. 7(4):261-5
Feng, Y., Santoriello, C., Mione, M., Hurlstone, A., Martin, P. (2016) Correction: Live Imaging of Innate Immune Cell Sensing of Transformed Cells in Zebrafish Larvae: Parallels between Tumor Initiation and Wound Inflammation. PLoS Biology. 14:e1002377
Mayrhofer, M., Mione, M. (2016) The Toolbox for Conditional Zebrafish Cancer Models. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 916:21-59
Arbizzani, F., Mayrhofer, M., Mione, M. (2015) Novel Transgenic Lines to Fluorescently Label Clathrin and Caveolin Endosomes in Live Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 12(2):202-3
Ogrunc, M., Di Micco, R., Liontos, M., Bombardelli, L., Mione, M., Fumagalli, M., Gorgoulis, V.G., d'Adda di Fagagna, F. (2014) Oncogene-induced reactive oxygen species fuel hyperproliferation and DNA damage response activation. Cell death and differentiation. 21:998-1012
Vacaru, A.M., Unlu, G., Spitzner, M., Mione, M., Knapik, E.W., and Sadler, K.C. (2014) In vivo cell biology in zebrafish - providing insights into vertebrate development and disease. Journal of Cell Science. 127(Pt 3):485-495
Alghisi, E., Distel, M., Malagola, M., Anelli, V., Santoriello, C., Herwig, L., Krudewig, A., Henkel, C.V., Russo, D., and Mione, M.C. (2013) Targeting oncogene expression to endothelial cells induces proliferation of the myelo-erythroid lineage by repressing the notch pathway. Leukemia. 24(6):943-53
Colombo, A., Palma, K., Armijo, L., Mione, M., Signore, I.A., Morales, C., Guerrero, N., Meynard, M.M., Pérez, R., Suazo, J., Marcelain, K., Briones, L., Härtel, S., Wilson, S.W., and Concha, M.L. (2013) Daam1a mediates asymmetric habenular morphogenesis by regulating dendritic and axonal outgrowth. Development (Cambridge, England). 140(19):3997-4007
Tran, L.D., Hino, H., Quach, H., Lim, S., Shindo, A., Mimori-Kiyosue, Y., Mione, M., Ueno, N., Winkler, C., Hibi, M., and Sampath, K. (2012) Dynamic microtubules at the vegetal cortex predict the embryonic axis in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 139(19):3644-3652
Francia, S., Michelini, F., Saxena, A., Tang, D., de Hoon, M., Anelli, V., Mione, M., Carninci, P., and di Fagagna, F.D. (2012) Site-specific DICER and DROSHA RNA products control the DNA-damage response. Nature. 488(7410):231-235
Mione, M., and Zon, L.I. (2012) Cancer and inflammation: an aspirin a day keeps the cancer at bay. Current biology : CB. 22(13):R522-525
York, A.G., Parekh, S.H., Nogare, D.D., Fischer, R.S., Temprine, K., Mione, M., Chitnis, A.B., Combs, C.A., and Shroff, H. (2012) Resolution doubling in live, multicellular organisms via multifocal structured illumination microscopy. Nature Methods. 9(7):749-754
Santoriello, C., Anelli, V., Alghisi, E., and Mione, M. (2012) Highly penetrant melanoma in a zebrafish model is independent of ErbB3b signaling. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 25(2):287-289
Du, S., Draper, B.W., Mione, M., Moens, C.B., and Bruce, A.E. (2012) Differential regulation of epiboly initiation and progression by zebrafish Eomesodermin A. Developmental Biology. 362(1):11-23
Bassi, A., Fieramonti, L., D'Andrea, C., Mione, M., and Valentini, G. (2011) In vivo label-free three-dimensional imaging of zebrafish vasculature with optical projection tomography. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 16(10):100502
Guarani, V., Deflorian, G., Franco, C.A., Krüger, M., Phng, L.K., Bentley, K., Toussaint, L., Dequiedt, F., Mostoslavsky, R., Schmidt, M.H., Zimmermann, B., Brandes, R.P., Mione, M., Westphal, C.H., Braun, T., Zeiher, A.M., Gerhardt, H., Dimmeler, S., and Potente, M. (2011) Acetylation-dependent regulation of endothelial Notch signalling by the SIRT1 deacetylase. Nature. 473(7346):234-238
Richardson, J., Zeng, Z., Ceol, C., Mione, M., Jackson, I.J., and Patton, E.E. (2011) A zebrafish model for nevus regeneration. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 24(2):378-381
Bernardi, E., Deflorian, G., Pezzinenti, F., Diaz, V.M., Mione, M., and Blasi, F. (2010) Characterization of the Regulatory Region of the Zebrafish Prep1.1 Gene: Analogies to the Promoter of the Human PREP1. PLoS One. 5(12):e15047
Feng, Y., Santoriello, C., Mione, M., Hurlstone, A., and Martin, P. (2010) Live Imaging of Innate Immune Cell Sensing of Transformed Cells in Zebrafish Larvae: Parallels between Tumor Initiation and Wound Inflammation. PLoS Biology. 8(12):e1000562
Santoriello, C., Gennaro, E., Anelli, V., Distel, M., Kelly, A., Köster, R.W., Hurlstone, A., and Mione, M. (2010) Kita Driven Expression of Oncogenic HRAS Leads to Early Onset and Highly Penetrant Melanoma in Zebrafish. PLoS One. 5(12):e15170
Mione, M.C., and Trede, N.S. (2010) The zebrafish as a model for cancer. Disease models & mechanisms. 3(9-10):517-523
Mione, M., Meijer, A.H., Snaar-Jagalska, B.E., Spaink, H.P., and Trede, N.S. (2009) Disease modeling in zebrafish: cancer and immune responses-a report on a workshop held in Spoleto, Italy, July 20-22, 2009. Zebrafish. 6(4):445-451
Anelli, V., Santoriello, C., Distel, M., Köster, R.W., Ciccarelli, F.D., and Mione, M. (2009) Global repression of cancer gene expression in a zebrafish model of melanoma is linked to epigenetic regulation. Zebrafish. 6(4):417-424
Deflorian, G., Cinquanta, M., Beretta, C., Venuto, A., Santoriello, C., Baldessari, D., Pezzimenti, F., Aliprandi, M., Mione, M., and de Marco, A. (2009) Monoclonal antibodies isolated by large-scale screening are suitable for labeling adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) tissues and cell structures. Journal of immunological methods. 346(1-2):9-17
Montero-Balaguer, M., Swirsding, K., Orsenigo, F., Cotelli, F., Mione, M., and Dejana, E. (2009) Stable vascular connections and remodeling require full expression of VE-cadherin in zebrafish embryos. PLoS One. 4(6):e5772
Stone, O.A., Richer, C., Emanueli, C., van Weel, V., Quax, P.H., Katare, R., Kraenkel, N., Campagnolo, P., Barcelos, L.S., Siragusa, M., Sala-Newby, G.B., Baldessari, D., Mione, M., Vincent, M.P., Benest, A.V., Al Haj Zen, A., Gonzalez, J., Bates, D.O., Alhenc-Gelas, F., and Madeddu, P. (2009) Critical Role of Tissue Kallikrein in Vessel Formation and Maturation: Implications for Therapeutic Revascularization. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol.. 29(5):657-664
Santoriello, C., Deflorian, G., Pezzimenti, F., Kawakami, K., Lanfrancone, L., d'Adda di Fagagna, F., and Mione, M. (2009) Expression of H-RASV12 in a zebrafish model of Costello syndrome causes cellular senescence in adult proliferating cells. Disease models & mechanisms. 2(1-2):56-67
Meani, N., Pezzimenti, F., Deflorian, G., Mione, M., and Alcalay, M. (2009) The tumor suppressor PRDM5 regulates Wnt signaling at early stages of zebrafish development. PLoS One. 4(1):e4273
Palamidessi, A., Frittoli, E., Garré, M., Faretta, M., Mione, M., Testa, I., Diaspro, A., Lanzetti, L., Scita, G., and Di Fiore, P.P. (2008) Endocytic trafficking of rac is required for the spatial restriction of signaling in cell migration. Cell. 134(1):135-147
Pocock, R., Mione, M., Hussain, S., Maxwell, S., Pontecorvi, M., Aslam, S., Gerrelli, D., Sowden, J.C., and Woollard, A. (2008) Neuronal function of Tbx20 conserved from nematodes to vertebrates. Developmental Biology. 317(2):671-685
Baldessari, D., and Mione, M. (2008) How to create the vascular tree? (Latest) help from the zebrafish. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 118(2):206-230
Mione, M., Baldessari, D., Deflorian, G., Nappo, G., and Santoriello, C. (2008) How neuronal migration contributes to the morphogenesis of the CNS: insights from the zebrafish. Developmental neuroscience. 30(1-3):65-81
Aleström, P., Begemann, G., Carvan, M.J. 3rd, Cheng, K.C., Crosier, K., Crosier, P., Ekker, S., Huttenlocher, A., Kawakami, K., Kelly, G., Korzh, V., Lieschke, G., Mione, M., Neely, M.N., Neuhauss, S., and Trede, N.S. (2008) Views on four key questions about zebrafish research. Zebrafish. 5(1):9-24
Potente, M., Ghaeni, L., Baldessari, D., Mostoslavsky, R., Rossig, L., Dequiedt, F., Haendeler, J., Mione, M., Dejana, E., Alt, F.W., Zeiher, A.M., and Dimmeler, S. (2007) SIRT1 controls endothelial angiogenic functions during vascular growth. Genes & Development. 21(20):2644-2658
Costagli, A., Felice, B., Guffanti, A., Wilson, S.W., and Mione, M. (2006) Identification of alternatively spliced dab1 isoforms in zebrafish. Development genes and evolution. 216(6):291-299
Foucher, I., Mione, M., Simeone, A., Acampora, D., Bally-Cuif, L., and Houart, C. (2006) Differentiation of cerebellar cell identities in absence of Fgf signalling in zebrafish Otx morphants. Development (Cambridge, England). 133(10):1891-1900
Mione, M., Lele, Z., Kwong, C.T., Concha, M.L., and Clarke, J.D. (2006) Expression of pcp4a in subpopulations of CNS neurons in zebrafish. The Journal of comparative neurology. 495(6):769-787
Colombo, A., Reig, G., Mione, M., and Concha, M.L. (2006) Zebrafish BarH-like genes define discrete neural domains in the early embryo. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 6(4):347-352
Jeong, J.Y., Einhorn, Z., Mercurio, S., Lee, S., Lau, B., Mione, M., Wilson, S.W., and Guo, S. (2006) Neurogenin1 is a determinant of zebrafish basal forebrain dopaminergic neurons and is regulated by the conserved zinc finger protein Tof/Fezl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103(13):5143-5148
Li, J., Mack, J.A., Souren, M., Yaksi, E., Higashijima, S., Mione, M., Fetcho, J.R., and Friedrich, R.W. (2005) Early development of functional spatial maps in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 25(24):5784-95
Costagli, A., Kapsimali, M., Wilson, S.W., and Mione, M. (2002) Conserved and divergent patterns of Reelin expression in the zebrafish central nervous system. The Journal of comparative neurology. 450(1):73-93
Wendl, T., Lun, K., Mione, M., Favor, J., Brand, M., Wilson, S.W., and Rohr, K.B. (2002) pax2.1 is required for the development of thyroid follicles in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 129(15):3751-3760
Mione, M., Shanmugalingam, S., Kimelman, D., and Griffin, K. (2001) Overlapping expression of zebrafish T-brain-1 and eomesodermin during forebrain development. Mechanisms of Development. 100(1):93-97

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Mione MC, Parnavelas JG. 1994. How do developing cortical neurones know where to go? Trends Neurosci 17:443-445.
Mione MC, Danevic C, Boardman P, Harris B, Parnavelas JG. 1994. Lineage analysis reveals neurotransmitter (GABA or glutamate) but not calcium-binding protein homogeneity in clonally related cortical neurons. J Neurosci 14:107-123.
Parnavelas JG, Mione MC, Lavdas A. 1995. The cell lineage of neuronal subtypes in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Ciba Found Symp 193:41-58.
Lavdas AA, Mione MC, Parnavelas JG. 1996. Neuronal clones in the cerebral cortex show morphological and neurotransmitter heterogeneity during development. Cereb Cortex 6:490-497.
Cavanagh JF, Mione MC, Pappas IS, Parnavelas JG. 1997. Basic fibroblast growth factor prolongs the proliferation of rat cortical progenitor cells in vitro without altering their cell cycle parameters. Cereb Cortex 7:293-302.
Mione MC, Cavanagh JF, Harris B, Parnavelas JG. 1997. Cell fate specification and symmetrical/asymmetrical divisions in the developing cerebral cortex. J Neurosci 17:2018-2029.
Thomaidou D*, Mione MC*, Cavanagh JF, Parnavelas JG. 1997. Apoptosis and its relation to the cell cycle in the developing cerebral cortex. J Neurosci 17:1075-1085.
Anderson S, Mione M, Yun K, Rubenstein JL. 1999. Differential origins of neocortical projection and local circuit neurons: role of Dlx genes in neocortical interneuronogenesis. Cereb Cortex 9:646-654.
Eisenstat DD, Liu JK, Mione M, Zhong W, Yu G, Anderson SA, Ghattas I, Puelles L, Rubenstein JL. 1999. DLX-1, DLX-2, and DLX-5 expression define distinct stages of basal forebrain differentiation. J Comp Neurol 414:217-237.
Barclay J, Balaguero N*, Mione M*, Ackerman SL, Letts VA, Brodbeck J, Canti C, Meir A, Page KM, Kusumi K, Perez-Reyes E, Lander ES, Frankel WN, Gardiner RM, Dolphin AC, Rees M. 2001. Ducky mouse phenotype of epilepsy and ataxia is associated with mutations in the Cacna2d2 gene and decreased calcium channel current in cerebellar Purkinje cells. J Neurosci 21:6095-6104.