Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity

CE Holbert, MT Cullen, RA Casero Jr… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The natural mammalian polyamines putrescine, spermidine and spermine are essential for
both normal and neoplastic cell function and replication. Dysregulation of metabolism of …

Clinical development of metabolic inhibitors for oncology

KM Lemberg, SS Gori, T Tsukamoto… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Metabolic inhibitors have been used in oncology for decades, dating back to antimetabolites
developed in the 1940s. In the past 25 years, there has been increased recognition of …

Polyamines in Parkinson's disease: balancing between neurotoxicity and neuroprotection

S Vrijsen, M Houdou, A Cascalho… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The polyamines putrescine, spermidine, and spermine are abundant polycations of vital
importance in mammalian cells. Their cellular levels are tightly regulated by degradation …

ONC201 in combination with paxalisib for the treatment of H3K27-altered diffuse midline glioma

ER Jackson, RJ Duchatel, DE Staudt, ML Persson… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG), are the
most lethal of childhood cancers. Palliative radiotherapy is the only established treatment …

Selective Methionine Pool Exhaustion Mediated by a Sequential Positioned MOF Nanotransformer for Intense Cancer Immunotherapy

W Wang, L Zhang, Z Liu, Y Zhang, J Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cells are addictive to exogenous methionine to gear toward tumor proliferation.
Meanwhile, they can replenish methionine pool from polyamine metabolism through a …

Polyamine immunometabolism: central regulators of inflammation, cancer and autoimmunity

T Chia, A Zolp, J Miska - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polyamines are ubiquitous, amine-rich molecules with diverse processes in biology. Recent
work has highlighted that polyamines exert profound roles on the mammalian immune …

Polyamine-mediated ferroptosis amplification acts as a targetable vulnerability in cancer

G Bi, J Liang, Y Bian, G Shan, Y Huang, T Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeting ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death triggered by the lethal
overload of lipid peroxides, in cancer therapy is impeded by our limited understanding of the …

Molecular engines, therapeutic targets, and challenges in pediatric brain tumors: a special emphasis on hydrogen sulfide and RNA-based nano-delivery

SA Fahmy, A Dawoud, YA Zeinelabdeen, CJ Kiriacos… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pediatric brain tumors represent a formidable challenge in the field of
oncology. Pediatric brain tumors are sub-classified into several molecular sub-types, where …

Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome

BJ Golbourn, ME Halbert, K Halligan, S Varadharajan… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) bearing driver mutations of histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27M)
are incurable brain tumors with unique epigenomes. Here, we generated a syngeneic …

New developments in the pathogenesis, therapeutic targeting, and treatment of H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma

DP Argersinger, SR Rivas, AH Shah, S Jackson… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma is a rare childhood cancer
originating in midline brain structures. The H3K27M mutation substitutes an amino acid on …