[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer: Advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Metabolomics in cancer research and emerging applications in clinical oncology

DR Schmidt, R Patel, DG Kirsch… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer has myriad effects on metabolism that include both rewiring of intracellular
metabolism to enable cancer cells to proliferate inappropriately and adapt to the tumor …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular biology of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: translational challenges and clinical perspectives

S Wang, Y Zheng, F Yang, L Zhu, XQ Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality with a tight
correspondence between disease mortality and incidence. Furthermore, it is usually …

Autophagy promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer by degrading MHC-I

K Yamamoto, A Venida, J Yano, DE Biancur… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a major obstacle for cancer treatment. Common mechanisms of evasion
include impaired antigen presentation caused by mutations or loss of heterozygosity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting pancreatic cancer metabolic dependencies through glutamine antagonism

J Encarnación-Rosado, ASW Sohn, DE Biancur, EY Lin… - Nature cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells use glutamine (Gln) to support proliferation
and redox balance. Early attempts to inhibit Gln metabolism using glutaminase inhibitors …

The metabolic landscape of RAS-driven cancers from biology to therapy

S Mukhopadhyay, MG Vander Heiden, F McCormick - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Our understanding of how the RAS protein family, and in particular mutant KRAS, promotes
metabolic dysregulation in cancer cells has advanced substantially over the last decade. In …

Organoid profiling identifies common responders to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

H Tiriac, P Belleau, DD Engle, D Plenker, A Deschênes… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal common solid malignancy. Systemic therapies are often
ineffective, and predictive biomarkers to guide treatment are urgently needed. We generated …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial metabolism and cancer

PE Porporato, N Filigheddu, JMBS Pedro, G Kroemer… - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
Glycolysis has long been considered as the major metabolic process for energy production
and anabolic growth in cancer cells. Although such a view has been instrumental for the …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting glutamine metabolism enhances tumor-specific immunity by modulating suppressive myeloid cells

MH Oh, IH Sun, L Zhao, RD Leone… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Myeloid cells comprise a major component of the tumor microenvironment (TME) that
promotes tumor growth and immune evasion. By employing a small-molecule inhibitor of …