Metabolic differentiation in the embryonic retina

M Agathocleous, NK Love, O Randlett, JJ Harris… - Nature cell …, 2012 - nature.com
Unlike healthy adult tissues, cancers produce energy mainly by aerobic glycolysis instead of
oxidative phosphorylation. This adaptation, called the Warburg effect, may be a feature of all …

Pyruvate kinase M2 and cancer: the role of PKM2 in promoting tumorigenesis

K Zahra, T Dey, Ashish, SP Mishra, U Pandey - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pyruvate kinase plays a pivotal role in regulating cell metabolism. The final and rate-limiting
step of glycolysis is the conversion of Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to Pyruvate, which is …

New roles for pyruvate kinase M2: working out the Warburg effect

EC Ferguson, JC Rathmell - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2008 - cell.com
The origins and role of the Warburg effect have remained uncertain for many years. Two
recent studies demonstrate that an embryonic-and cancer-cell-specific isoform of the …

O-GlcNAcylation destabilizes the active tetrameric PKM2 to promote the Warburg effect

Y Wang, J Liu, X Jin, D Zhang, D Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The Warburg effect, characterized by increased glucose uptake and lactate production, is a
well-known universal across cancer cells and other proliferating cells. PKM2, a splice …

The retina and retinal pigment epithelium differ in nitrogen metabolism and are metabolically connected

R Xu, BK Ritz, Y Wang, J Huang, C Zhao… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Defects in energy metabolism in either the retina or the immediately adjacent retinal pigment
epithelium (RPE) underlie retinal degeneration, but the metabolic dependence between …

Pyruvate kinase M2: a multifarious enzyme in non-canonical localization to promote cancer progression

S Amin, P Yang, Z Li - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rewiring glucose metabolism, termed as Warburg effect or aerobic glycolysis, is a common
signature of cancer cells to meet their high energetic and biosynthetic demands of rapid …

Endothelial pyruvate kinase M2 maintains vascular integrity

B Kim, C Jang, H Dharaneeswaran, J Li… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The M2 isoform of pyruvate kinase (PKM2) is highly expressed in most cancer cells, and has
been studied extensively as a driver of oncogenic metabolism. In contrast, the role of PKM2 …

How excessive cGMP impacts metabolic proteins in retinas at the onset of degeneration

J Du, J An, JD Linton, Y Wang, JB Hurley - Retinal Degenerative Diseases …, 2018 - Springer
Aryl-hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein-like 1 (AIPL1) is essential to stabilize cGMP
phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6) in rod photoreceptors. Mutation of AIPL1 leads to loss of …

A short review on cross-link between pyruvate kinase (PKM2) and Glioblastoma Multiforme

H Verma, RP Cholia, S Kaur, M Dhiman… - Metabolic Brain …, 2021 - Springer
Pyruvate kinase (PK) catalyzes the last irreversible reaction of glycolysis pathway,
generating pyruvate and ATP, from Phosphoenol Pyruvate (PEP) and ADP precursors. In …

Aurora A–mediated pyruvate kinase M2 phosphorylation promotes biosynthesis with glycolytic metabolites and tumor cell cycle progression

Y Jiang, T Wang, D Sheng, C Han, T Xu… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Cancer cells have distinctive demands for intermediates from glucose metabolism for
biosynthesis and energy in different cell cycle phases. However, how cell cycle regulators …