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 …

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 …

The m6A reader IGF2BP2 regulates glutamine metabolism and represents a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia

H Weng, F Huang, Z Yu, Z Chen, E Prince, Y Kang… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary N 6-Methyladenosine (m 6 A) modification and its modulators play critical roles
and show promise as therapeutic targets in human cancers, including acute myeloid …

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells support acute myeloid leukemia bioenergetics and enhance antioxidant defense and escape from chemotherapy

D Forte, M García-Fernández, A Sanchez-Aguilera… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Like normal hematopoietic stem cells, leukemic stem cells depend on their bone marrow
(BM) microenvironment for survival, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely …

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 …

C/EBPα Confers Dependence to Fatty Acid Anabolic Pathways and Vulnerability to Lipid Oxidative Stress–Induced Ferroptosis in FLT3-Mutant Leukemia

M Sabatier, R Birsen, L Lauture, S Mouche, P Angelino… - Cancer Discovery, 2023 - AACR
Although transcription factor CCAAT-enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is critical for
normal and leukemic differentiation, its role in cell and metabolic homeostasis is largely …

Impacts and mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming of tumor microenvironment for immunotherapy in gastric cancer

L Zhao, Y Liu, S Zhang, L Wei, H Cheng, J Wang… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic disorders and abnormal immune function changes occur in tumor tissues and
cells to varying degrees. There is increasing evidence that reprogrammed energy …

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 …

The STAT3-MYC axis promotes survival of leukemia stem cells by regulating SLC1A5 and oxidative phosphorylation

ML Amaya, A Inguva, S Pei, C Jones… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by the presence of leukemia stem cells
(LSCs), and failure to fully eradicate this population contributes to disease …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging role of NRF2 in ROS-mediated tumor chemoresistance

D Xue, X Zhou, J Qiu - Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Chemoresistance is a central cause for the tumor management failure. Cancer cells disrupt
the redox homeostasis through reactive oxygen species (ROS) regulatory mechanisms …