Polymer–drug conjugate therapeutics: advances, insights and prospects

I Ekladious, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Polymer–drug conjugates have long been a mainstay of the drug delivery field, with several
conjugates successfully translated into clinical practice. The conjugation of therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Amino acid depletion therapies: starving cancer cells to death

M Butler, LT van der Meer, FN van Leeuwen - Trends in Endocrinology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Targeting tumor cell metabolism is an attractive form of therapy, as it may enhance treatment
response in therapy resistant cancers as well as mitigate treatment-related toxicities by …

Amino acid metabolism in hematologic malignancies and the era of targeted therapy

Y Tabe, PL Lorenzi, M Konopleva - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Tumor cells rewire metabolic pathways to adapt to their increased nutritional demands for
energy, reducing equivalents, and cellular biosynthesis. Alternations in amino acid …

Collaborative efforts driving progress in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

CM Zwaan, EA Kolb, D Reinhardt… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Diagnosis, treatment, response monitoring, and outcome of pediatric acute myeloid
leukemia (AML) have made enormous progress during the past decades. Because AML is a …

[HTML][HTML] Immunometabolic rewiring in tumorigenesis and anti-tumor immunotherapy

X Lian, K Yang, R Li, M Li, J Zuo, B Zheng, W Wang… - Molecular Cancer, 2022 - Springer
Cellular metabolism constitutes a fundamental process in biology. During tumor initiation
and progression, each cellular component in the cancerous niche undergoes dramatic …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic plasticity of acute myeloid leukemia

J Kreitz, C Schönfeld, M Seibert, V Stolp, I Alshamleh… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most common and life-threatening leukemias. A
highly diverse and flexible metabolism contributes to the aggressiveness of the disease that …

[HTML][HTML] The Janus-like role of proline metabolism in cancer

L Burke, I Guterman, R Palacios Gallego… - Cell death …, 2020 - nature.com
The metabolism of the non-essential amino acid L-proline is emerging as a key pathway in
the metabolic rewiring that sustains cancer cells proliferation, survival and metastatic …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine metabolism and deprivation in cancer therapy

S Zou, X Wang, P Liu, C Ke, S Xu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Reviewed the function of arginine and its metabolites in arginine deprivation
therapy.•Discussed the difference of arginine deiminase and recombinant human arginase …

Metabolic engineering against the arginine microenvironment enhances CAR-T cell proliferation and therapeutic activity

L Fultang, S Booth, O Yogev… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Hematological and solid cancers catabolize the semiessential amino acid arginine to drive
cell proliferation. However, the resulting low arginine microenvironment also impairs …

[HTML][HTML] Drug-induced amino acid deprivation as strategy for cancer therapy

MKL Fung, GCF Chan - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2017 - Springer
Cancer is caused by uncontrollable growth of neoplastic cells, leading to invasion of
adjacent and distant tissues resulting in death. Cancer cells have specific nutrient (s) …