[HTML][HTML] Arginine metabolism in bacterial pathogenesis and cancer therapy

L Xiong, JLL Teng, MG Botelho, RC Lo… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Antibacterial resistance to infectious diseases is a significant global concern for health care
organizations; along with aging populations and increasing cancer rates, it represents a …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine signaling and cancer metabolism

CL Chen, SC Hsu, DK Ann, Y Yen, HJ Kung - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In this review, we describe arginine's role as a signaling metabolite,
epigenetic regulator and mitochondrial modulator in cancer cells, and summarize recent …

Arginine dependence of tumor cells: targeting a chink in cancer's armor

MD Patil, J Bhaumik, S Babykutty, UC Banerjee… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Arginine, one among the 20 most common natural amino acids, has a pivotal role in cellular
physiology as it is being involved in numerous cellular metabolic and signaling pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of the arginase pathway in the context of microbial pathogenesis: a metabolic enzyme moonlighting as an immune modulator

P Das, A Lahiri, A Lahiri, D Chakravortty - PLoS Pathogens, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Arginine is a crucial amino acid that serves to modulate the cellular immune response
during infection. Arginine is also a common substrate for both inducible nitric oxide synthase …

[HTML][HTML] Arginase: An emerging and promising therapeutic target for cancer treatment

F Niu, Y Yu, Z Li, Y Ren, Z Li, Q Ye, P Liu, C Ji… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Arginase is a key hydrolase in the urea cycle that hydrolyses L-arginine to urea and L-
ornithine. Increasing number of studies in recent years demonstrate that two mammalian …

[HTML][HTML] Myeloid cell-derived arginase in cancer immune response

TM Grzywa, A Sosnowska, P Matryba… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amino acid metabolism is a critical regulator of the immune response, and its modulating
becomes a promising approach in various forms of immunotherapy. Insufficient …

Regulation of the arginine deiminase system by ArgR2 interferes with arginine metabolism and fitness of Streptococcus pneumoniae

C Schulz, P Gierok, L Petruschka, M Lalk, U Mäder… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptococcus pneumoniae is auxotrophic for arginine, and molecular analysis of the
pneumococcal genome showed that the gene encoding an arginine-ornithine antiporter …

Recombinant arginine‐degrading enzymes in metabolic anticancer therapy and bioanalytics

OV Stasyk, YR Boretsky, MV Gonchar… - Cell Biology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor cells often exhibit specific metabolic defects due to the aberrations in oncogene‐
dependent regulatory and/or signaling pathways that distinguish them from normal cells …

Regulation of arginine biosynthesis, catabolism and transport in Escherichia coli

D Charlier, I Bervoets - Amino acids, 2019 - Springer
Already very early, the study of microbial arginine biosynthesis and its regulation contributed
significantly to the development of new ideas and concepts. Hence, the term “repression” …

Molecular basis and current strategies of therapeutic arginine depletion for cancer

L Fultang, A Vardon, C De Santo… - International journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Renewed interest in the use of therapeutic enzymes combined with an improved knowledge
of cancer cell metabolism, has led to the translation of several arginine depletion strategies …