Targeting glutamine metabolism as a therapeutic strategy for cancer

J Jin, JK Byun, YK Choi, KG Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Proliferating cancer cells rely largely on glutamine for survival and proliferation. Glutamine
serves as a carbon source for the synthesis of lipids and metabolites via the TCA cycle, as …

Amino acid depletion therapies: starving cancer cells to death

M Butler, LT van der Meer, FN van Leeuwen - Trends in Endocrinology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Targeting tumor cell metabolism is an attractive form of therapy, as it may enhance treatment
response in therapy resistant cancers as well as mitigate treatment-related toxicities by …

FDX1 can impact the prognosis and mediate the metabolism of lung adenocarcinoma

Z Zhang, Y Ma, X Guo, Y Du, Q Zhu, X Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Lung cancer has emerged as one of the most common cancers in recent years.
The mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) is closely connected with metabolic …

Signal pathways and precision therapy of small-cell lung cancer

M Yuan, Y Zhao, HT Arkenau, T Lao, L Chu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) encounters up 15% of all lung cancers, and is characterized
by a high rate of proliferation, a tendency for early metastasis and generally poor prognosis …

[HTML][HTML] Cysteine metabolic circuitries: druggable targets in cancer

VDB Bonifácio, SA Pereira, J Serpa… - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
To enable survival in adverse conditions, cancer cells undergo global metabolic
adaptations. The amino acid cysteine actively contributes to cancer metabolic remodelling …

KEAP1/NFE2L2 Mutations Predict Lung Cancer Radiation Resistance That Can Be Targeted by Glutaminase Inhibition

MS Binkley, YJ Jeon, M Nesselbush, EJ Moding… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Tumor genotyping is not routinely performed in localized non–small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) due to lack of associations of mutations with outcome. Here, we analyze 232 …

Effects of glucose metabolism, lipid metabolism, and glutamine metabolism on tumor microenvironment and clinical implications

L Zhu, X Zhu, Y Wu - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, an increasingly more in depth understanding of tumor metabolism in
tumorigenesis, tumor growth, metastasis, and prognosis has been achieved. The broad …

[HTML][HTML] Human-specific ARHGAP11B acts in mitochondria to expand neocortical progenitors by glutaminolysis

T Namba, J Dóczi, A Pinson, L Xing, N Kalebic… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The human-specific gene ARHGAP11B is preferentially expressed in neural progenitors of
fetal human neocortex and increases abundance and proliferation of basal progenitors …

The strategic roles of four enzymes in the interconnection between metabolism and oncogene activation in non-small cell lung cancer: Therapeutic implications

P Icard, L Simula, L Fournel, K Leroy, A Lupo… - Drug Resistance …, 2022 - Elsevier
NSCLC is the leading cause of cancer mortality and represents a major challenge in cancer
therapy. Intrinsic and acquired anticancer drug resistance are promoted by hypoxia and HIF …

Reprogramming of lipid metabolism in lung cancer: An overview with focus on EGFR-Mutated non-small cell lung cancer

K Eltayeb, S La Monica, M Tiseo, R Alfieri, C Fumarola - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Most of lung cancer cases are
classified as non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). EGFR has become an important …