Metabolites and the tumour microenvironment: from cellular mechanisms to systemic metabolism

I Elia, MC Haigis - Nature metabolism, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolic transformation is a hallmark of cancer and a critical target for cancer therapy.
Cancer metabolism and behaviour are regulated by cell-intrinsic factors as well as …

Molecular targeted therapy: Treating cancer with specificity

YT Lee, YJ Tan, CE Oon - European journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular targeted therapies are revolutionized therapeutics which interfere with specific
molecules to block cancer growth, progression, and metastasis. Many molecular targeted …

Navigating metabolic pathways to enhance antitumour immunity and immunotherapy

X Li, M Wenes, P Romero, SCC Huang… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
The development of immunotherapies over the past decade has resulted in a paradigm shift
in the treatment of cancer. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from …

Pyruvate kinase M2 and cancer: the role of PKM2 in promoting tumorigenesis

K Zahra, T Dey, Ashish, SP Mishra, U Pandey - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pyruvate kinase plays a pivotal role in regulating cell metabolism. The final and rate-limiting
step of glycolysis is the conversion of Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to Pyruvate, which is …

Targeting metabolism for cancer therapy

A Luengo, DY Gui, MG Vander Heiden - Cell chemical biology, 2017 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming contributes to tumor development and introduces metabolic
liabilities that can be exploited to treat cancer. Chemotherapies targeting metabolism have …

Serine and one-carbon metabolism in cancer

M Yang, KH Vousden - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
The non-essential amino acid serine supports several metabolic processes that are crucial
for the growth and survival of proliferating cells, including protein, amino acid and …

Metabolic reprogramming for cancer cells and their microenvironment: Beyond the Warburg Effect

L Sun, C Suo, S Li, H Zhang, P Gao - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2018 - Elsevier
While metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells has long been considered from the
standpoint of how and why cancer cells preferentially utilize glucose via aerobic glycolysis …

PKM 2, cancer metabolism, and the road ahead

TL Dayton, T Jacks, MG Vander Heiden - EMBO reports, 2016 - embopress.org
A major metabolic aberration associated with cancer is a change in glucose metabolism.
Isoform selection of the glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase has been implicated in the …

Pyruvate kinase: Function, regulation and role in cancer

WJ Israelsen, MG Vander Heiden - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pyruvate kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate and
ADP to pyruvate and ATP in glycolysis and plays a role in regulating cell metabolism. There …

Fueling immunity: insights into metabolism and lymphocyte function

EL Pearce, MC Poffenberger, CH Chang, RG Jones - Science, 2013 - science.org
Background Naïve lymphocytes circulate in the body in a resting state, but upon recognition
of foreign antigen and receipt of proper costimulatory signals, these cells become activated …