Regulation of the pentose phosphate pathway in cancer

P Jiang, W Du, M Wu - Protein & cell, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Energy metabolism is significantly reprogrammed in many human cancers, and these
alterations confer many advantages to cancer cells, including the promotion of biosynthesis …

The pentose phosphate pathway and cancer

KC Patra, N Hay - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2014 - cell.com
The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), which branches from glycolysis at the first
committed step of glucose metabolism, is required for the synthesis of ribonucleotides and is …

The pentose phosphate pathway dynamics in cancer and its dependency on intracellular pH

KO Alfarouk, SBM Ahmed, RL Elliott, A Benoit… - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Pentose Phosphate Pathway (PPP) is one of the key metabolic pathways occurring in
living cells to produce energy and maintain cellular homeostasis. Cancer cells have higher …

[HTML][HTML] The pentose phosphate pathway as a potential target for cancer therapy

ES Cho, YH Cha, HS Kim, NH Kim… - Biomolecules & …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During cancer progression, cancer cells are repeatedly exposed to metabolic stress
conditions in a resource-limited environment which they must escape. Increasing evidence …

The pentose phosphate pathway in cancer: regulation and therapeutic opportunities

N Ghanem, C El-Baba, K Araji, R El-Khoury, J Usta… - Chemotherapy, 2021 - karger.com
Background: Tumorigenesis is associated with deregulation of nutritional requirements,
intermediary metabolites production, and microenvironment interactions. Unlike their normal …

Crucial role of the pentose phosphate pathway in malignant tumors

L Jin, Y Zhou - Oncology letters, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Interest in cancer metabolism has increased in recent years. The pentose phosphate
pathway (PPP) is a major glucose catabolism pathway that directs glucose flux to its …

The pentose phosphate pathway: an antioxidant defense and a crossroad in tumor cell fate

C Riganti, E Gazzano, M Polimeni, E Aldieri… - Free Radical Biology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The pentose phosphate pathway, one of the main antioxidant cellular defense systems, has
been related for a long time almost exclusively to its role as a provider of reducing power …

The role of the pentose phosphate pathway in diabetes and cancer

T Ge, J Yang, S Zhou, Y Wang, Y Li… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) branches from glucose 6-phosphate (G6P),
produces NADPH and ribose 5-phosphate (R5P), and shunts carbons back to the glycolytic …

Emerging role of the pentose phosphate pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma

MA Kowalik, A Columbano, A Perra - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in metabolic changes of cancer cells as it
has been noticed that malignant transformation and metabolic reprogramming are closely …

Nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathways and their direct role in ribose synthesis in tumors: is cancer a disease of cellular glucose metabolism?

LG Boros, PWN Lee, JL Brandes, M Cascante… - Medical hypotheses, 1998 - Elsevier
Pentose phosphate pathways (PPP) are considered important in tumor proliferation
processes because of their role in supplying tumor cells with reduced NADP and carbons for …