Role of oncogenic KRAS in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer

L Buscail, B Bournet, P Cordelier - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is predicted to be the second most common
cause of death within the next 10 years. The prognosis for this disease is poor despite …

Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment

SA Kerk, T Papagiannakopoulos, YM Shah… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Oncogenic mutations in KRAS drive common metabolic programmes that facilitate tumour
survival, growth and immune evasion in colorectal carcinoma, non-small-cell lung cancer …

GOT1 inhibition promotes pancreatic cancer cell death by ferroptosis

DM Kremer, BS Nelson, L Lin, EL Yarosz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer metabolism is rewired to support cell survival in response to intrinsic and
environmental stressors. Identification of strategies to target these adaptions is an area of …

The lysosome as a cellular centre for signalling, metabolism and quality control

RE Lawrence, R Zoncu - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Long known as terminal degradation stations, lysosomes have emerged as sophisticated
signalling centres that govern cell growth, division and differentiation. Lysosomes interface …

Ornithine aminotransferase supports polyamine synthesis in pancreatic cancer

MS Lee, C Dennis, I Naqvi, L Dailey, A Lorzadeh, G Ye… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
There is a need to develop effective therapies for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA),
a highly lethal malignancy with increasing incidence and poor prognosis. Although targeting …

Emerging role of tumor cell plasticity in modifying therapeutic response

S Qin, J Jiang, Y Lu, EC Nice, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer therapy is a major barrier to cancer management. Conventional views
have proposed that acquisition of resistance may result from genetic mutations. However …

Macrophage-released pyrimidines inhibit gemcitabine therapy in pancreatic cancer

CJ Halbrook, C Pontious, I Kovalenko, L Lapienyte… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by abundant infiltration of tumor-
associated macrophages (TAMs). TAMs have been reported to drive resistance to …

Recent insights into the function of autophagy in cancer

R Amaravadi, AC Kimmelman, E White - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Macroautophagy (referred to here as autophagy) is induced by starvation to capture and
degrade intracellular proteins and organelles in lysosomes, which recycles intracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Classifying the evolutionary and ecological features of neoplasms

CC Maley, A Aktipis, TA Graham, A Sottoriva… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Neoplasms change over time through a process of cell-level evolution, driven by genetic
and epigenetic alterations. However, the ecology of the microenvironment of a neoplastic …

Harnessing metabolic dependencies in pancreatic cancers

J Encarnación-Rosado, AC Kimmelman - … Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly aggressive disease with a 5-year
survival rate of< 10%. The tumour microenvironment (TME) of PDAC is characterized by …