Tumor glycolysis, an essential sweet tooth of tumor cells

S Paul, S Ghosh, S Kumar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer cells undergo metabolic alterations to meet the immense demand for energy,
building blocks, and redox potential. Tumors show glucose-avid and lactate-secreting …

Revisiting glycogen in cancer: a conspicuous and targetable enabler of malignant transformation

T Khan, MA Sullivan, JH Gunter, T Kryza… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Once thought to be exclusively a storage hub for glucose, glycogen is now known to be
essential in a range of physiological processes and pathological conditions. Glycogen lies at …

[HTML][HTML] Biology of glucose metabolization in cancer cells

A Fadaka, B Ajiboye, O Ojo, O Adewale… - Journal of Oncological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer is a disease at the cellular level involving heritable disorders in cellular control
mechanism. Cancer cells also need to adapt their metabolism to survive and multiply under …

Molecular intricacies of aerobic glycolysis in cancer: current insights into the classic metabolic phenotype

S Ganapathy-Kanniappan - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Aerobic glycolysis is the process of oxidation of glucose into pyruvate followed by lactate
production under normoxic condition. Distinctive from its anaerobic counterpart (ie glycolysis …

Glucose utilization via glycogen phosphorylase sustains proliferation and prevents premature senescence in cancer cells

E Favaro, K Bensaad, MG Chong, DA Tennant… - Cell metabolism, 2012 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells provides energy and multiple intermediates critical
for cell growth. Hypoxia in tumors represents a hostile environment that can encourage …

The significance of glycolysis in tumor progression and its relationship with the tumor microenvironment

D Zhou, Z Duan, Z Li, F Ge, R Wei… - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It is well known that tumor cells rely mainly on aerobic glycolysis for energy production even
in the presence of oxygen, and glycolysis is a known modulator of tumorigenesis and tumor …

Non-metabolic functions of glycolytic enzymes in tumorigenesis

X Yu, S Li - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer cells reprogram their metabolism to meet the requirement for survival and rapid
growth. One hallmark of cancer metabolism is elevated aerobic glycolysis and reduced …

Glycogen metabolism in cancer

CE Zois, E Favaro, AL Harris - Biochemical pharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Since its identification more than 150 years ago, there has been an extensive
characterisation of glycogen metabolism and its regulatory pathways in the two main …

Tumor glycolysis as a target for cancer therapy: progress and prospects

S Ganapathy-Kanniappan, JFH Geschwind - Molecular cancer, 2013 - Springer
Altered energy metabolism is a biochemical fingerprint of cancer cells that represents one of
the “hallmarks of cancer”. This metabolic phenotype is characterized by preferential …

Crucial players in glycolysis: cancer progress

Z Abbaszadeh, S Çeşmeli, ÇB Avcı - Gene, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second most important cause of death and new therapy modalities continue to
be developed and evolved. Cancer cells' metabolism is far different from the normal, healthy …