Mitochondrial signal transduction

M Picard, OS Shirihai - Cell Metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
The analogy of mitochondria as powerhouses has expired. Mitochondria are living, dynamic,
maternally inherited, energy-transforming, biosynthetic, and signaling organelles that …

Regulation and function of the mammalian tricarboxylic acid cycle

PK Arnold, LWS Finley - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, otherwise known as the Krebs cycle, is a central
metabolic pathway that performs the essential function of oxidizing nutrients to support …

What is cancer metabolism?

LWS Finley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The uptake and metabolism of nutrients support fundamental cellular process from
bioenergetics to biomass production and cell fate regulation. While many studies of cell …

Oncometabolite d-2HG alters T cell metabolism to impair CD8+ T cell function

G Notarangelo, JB Spinelli, EM Perez, GJ Baker… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Gain-of-function mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) in human cancers result in the
production of d-2-hydroxyglutarate (d-2HG), an oncometabolite that promotes tumorigenesis …

Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism

HC Yoo, YC Yu, Y Sung, JM Han - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2020 - nature.com
As knowledge of cell metabolism has advanced, glutamine has been considered an
important amino acid that supplies carbon and nitrogen to fuel biosynthesis. A recent study …

Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas is driven by disruption of integrated metabolic and epigenetic pathways

S Venneti, AR Kawakibi, S Ji, SM Waszak, SR Sweha… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Abstract Patients with H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (DMG) have no proven
effective therapies. ONC201 has recently demonstrated efficacy in these patients, but the …

Mitochondrial TCA cycle metabolites control physiology and disease

I Martínez-Reyes, NS Chandel - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria are signaling organelles that regulate a wide variety of cellular functions and
can dictate cell fate. Multiple mechanisms contribute to communicate mitochondrial fitness to …

Cellular adaptation to hypoxia through hypoxia inducible factors and beyond

P Lee, NS Chandel, MC Simon - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular oxygen (O2) sustains intracellular bioenergetics and is consumed by numerous
biochemical reactions, making it essential for most species on Earth. Accordingly, decreased …

Lactate in the regulation of tumor microenvironment and therapeutic approaches

KG de la Cruz-López, LJ Castro-Muñoz… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells must generate sufficient ATP and biosynthetic precursors in order to maintain
cell proliferation requirements. Otto Warburg showed that tumor cells uptake high amounts …

The metabolite α-KG induces GSDMC-dependent pyroptosis through death receptor 6-activated caspase-8

J Zhang, B Zhou, R Sun, Y Ai, K Cheng, F Li, B Wang… - Cell research, 2021 - nature.com
Pyroptosis is a form of regulated cell death mediated by gasdermin family members, among
which the function of GSDMC has not been clearly described. Herein, we demonstrate that …