Endothelial cell metabolism in health and disease

K Rohlenova, K Veys, I Miranda-Santos, K De Bock… - Trends in cell …, 2018 - cell.com
The metabolism of endothelial cells (ECs) has only recently been recognized as a driving
force of angiogenesis. Metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis, fatty acid oxidation, and …

Cancer metabolism: current understanding and therapies

JL Counihan, EA Grossman, DK Nomura - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dysregulation of cancer cell metabolism contributes to abnormal cell growth, the biological
end point of cancer. We review here numerous affected oncogenes and metabolic pathways …

Asparagine bioavailability governs metastasis in a model of breast cancer

SRV Knott, E Wagenblast, S Khan, SY Kim, M Soto… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Using a functional model of breast cancer heterogeneity, we previously showed that clonal
sub-populations proficient at generating circulating tumour cells were not all equally capable …

Aspartate is an endogenous metabolic limitation for tumour growth

LB Sullivan, A Luengo, LV Danai, LN Bush… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Defining the metabolic limitations of tumour growth will help to develop cancer therapies.
Cancer cells proliferate slower in tumours than in standard culture conditions, indicating that …

As extracellular glutamine levels decline, asparagine becomes an essential amino acid

NN Pavlova, S Hui, JM Ghergurovich, J Fan… - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
When mammalian cells are deprived of glutamine, exogenous asparagine rescues cell
survival and growth. Here we report that this rescue results from use of asparagine in protein …

A role for p53 in the adaptation to glutamine starvation through the expression of SLC1A3

M Tajan, AK Hock, J Blagih, NA Robertson… - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Numerous mechanisms to support cells under conditions of transient nutrient starvation
have been described. Several functions of the tumor-suppressor protein p53 can contribute …

Oncogenic KRAS regulates amino acid homeostasis and asparagine biosynthesis via ATF4 and alters sensitivity to L-asparaginase

DM Gwinn, AG Lee, M Briones-Martin-del-Campo… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
KRAS is a regulator of the nutrient stress response in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Induction of the ATF4 pathway during nutrient depletion requires AKT and NRF2 …

Inhibition of GCN2 sensitizes ASNS-low cancer cells to asparaginase by disrupting the amino acid response

A Nakamura, T Nambu, S Ebara… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
General control nonderepressible 2 (GCN2) plays a major role in the cellular response to
amino acid limitation. Although maintenance of amino acid homeostasis is critical for tumor …

Targeting the Warburg effect via LDHA inhibition engages ATF 4 signaling for cancer cell survival

G Pathria, DA Scott, Y Feng, J Sang Lee, Y Fujita… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Nutrient restriction reprograms cellular signaling and metabolic network to shape cancer
phenotype. Lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) has a key role in aerobic glycolysis (the …

Arginine starvation kills tumor cells through aspartate exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction

CT Cheng, Y Qi, YC Wang, KK Chi, Y Chung… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Defective arginine synthesis, due to the silencing of argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1), is
a common metabolic vulnerability in cancer, known as arginine auxotrophy. Understanding …