Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in cancer cells supporting enhanced growth and proliferation

C Schiliro, BL Firestein - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells alter metabolic processes to sustain their characteristic uncontrolled growth
and proliferation. These metabolic alterations include (1) a shift from oxidative …

Metabolism of amino acids in cancer

Z Wei, X Liu, C Cheng, W Yu, P Yi - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic reprogramming has been widely recognized as a hallmark of malignancy. The
uptake and metabolism of amino acids are aberrantly upregulated in many cancers that …

ROS homeostasis and metabolism: a dangerous liason in cancer cells

E Panieri, MM Santoro - Cell death & disease, 2016 - nature.com
Tumor cells harbor genetic alterations that promote a continuous and elevated production of
reactive oxygen species. Whereas such oxidative stress conditions would be harmful to …

Enhancing the efficacy of glutamine metabolism inhibitors in cancer therapy

WH Yang, Y Qiu, O Stamatatos, T Janowitz, MJ Lukey - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Glutamine metabolism is reprogrammed during tumorigenesis and has been investigated as
a promising target for cancer therapy. However, efforts to drug this process are confounded …

Reprogramming of glucose, fatty acid and amino acid metabolism for cancer progression

Z Li, H Zhang - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2016 - Springer
Metabolic reprogramming is widely observed during cancer development to confer cancer
cells the ability to survive and proliferate, even under the stressed, such as nutrient-limiting …

Targeting glutaminolysis: new perspectives to understand cancer development and novel strategies for potential target therapies

Z Wang, F Liu, N Fan, C Zhou, D Li, T Macvicar… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Metabolism rewiring is an important hallmark of cancers. Being one of the most abundant
free amino acids in the human blood, glutamine supports bioenergetics and biosynthesis …

Glutamine and cancer: cell biology, physiology, and clinical opportunities

CT Hensley, AT Wasti… - The Journal of clinical …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glutamine is an abundant and versatile nutrient that participates in energy formation, redox
homeostasis, macromolecular synthesis, and signaling in cancer cells. These characteristics …

Glutamine oxidation maintains the TCA cycle and cell survival during impaired mitochondrial pyruvate transport

C Yang, B Ko, CT Hensley, L Jiang, AT Wasti, J Kim… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Alternative modes of metabolism enable cells to resist metabolic stress. Inhibiting these
compensatory pathways may produce synthetic lethality. We previously demonstrated that …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting glutamine metabolism for cancer treatment

YK Choi, KG Park - Biomolecules & therapeutics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rapidly proliferating cancer cells require energy and cellular building blocks for their growth
and ability to maintain redox balance. Many studies have focused on understanding how …

Glutaminolysis as a target for cancer therapy

L Jin, GN Alesi, S Kang - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Cancer cells display an altered metabolic circuitry that is directly regulated by oncogenic
mutations and loss of tumor suppressors. Mounting evidence indicates that altered …