Tumor glycolysis, an essential sweet tooth of tumor cells

S Paul, S Ghosh, S Kumar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer cells undergo metabolic alterations to meet the immense demand for energy,
building blocks, and redox potential. Tumors show glucose-avid and lactate-secreting …

Targeting glucose metabolism to suppress cancer progression: prospective of anti-glycolytic cancer therapy

AF Abdel-Wahab, W Mahmoud, RM Al-Harizy - Pharmacological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Most solid tumor cells adapt to their heterogeneous microenvironment by depending largely
on aerobic glycolysis for energy production, a phenomenon called the Warburg effect, which …

Glucose feeds the TCA cycle via circulating lactate

S Hui, JM Ghergurovich, RJ Morscher, C Jang, X Teng… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Mammalian tissues are fuelled by circulating nutrients, including glucose, amino acids, and
various intermediary metabolites. Under aerobic conditions, glucose is generally assumed …

Metabolic heterogeneity confers differences in melanoma metastatic potential

A Tasdogan, B Faubert, V Ramesh, JM Ubellacker… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Metastasis requires cancer cells to undergo metabolic changes that are poorly understood,–
. Here we show that metabolic differences among melanoma cells confer differences in …

[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 …

Tumour acidosis: from the passenger to the driver's seat

C Corbet, O Feron - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The high metabolic demand of cancer cells leads to an accumulation of H+ ions in the
tumour microenvironment. The disorganized tumour vasculature prevents an efficient wash …

Reprogramming glucose metabolism in cancer: can it be exploited for cancer therapy?

N Hay - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
In recent years there has been a growing interest among cancer biologists in cancer
metabolism. This Review summarizes past and recent advances in our understanding of the …

Lipid-based drug delivery systems in cancer therapy: what is available and what is yet to come

P Yingchoncharoen, DS Kalinowski… - Pharmacological …, 2016 - ASPET
Cancer is a leading cause of death in many countries around the world. However, the
efficacy of current standard treatments for a variety of cancers is suboptimal. First, most …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment derived exosomes pleiotropically modulate cancer cell metabolism

H Zhao, L Yang, J Baddour, A Achreja, V Bernard… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a major cellular component of tumor
microenvironment in most solid cancers. Altered cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer …

Therapeutic targeting of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex/pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDC/PDK) axis in cancer

PW Stacpoole - JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) irreversibly decarboxylates
pyruvate to acetyl coenzyme A, thereby linking glycolysis to the tricarboxylic acid cycle and …