Metabolomics in cancer research and emerging applications in clinical oncology

DR Schmidt, R Patel, DG Kirsch… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer has myriad effects on metabolism that include both rewiring of intracellular
metabolism to enable cancer cells to proliferate inappropriately and adapt to the tumor …

The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis

G Bergers, SM Fendt - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Metastasis formation is the major cause of death in most patients with cancer. Despite
extensive research, targeting metastatic seeding and colonization is still an unresolved …

[PDF][PDF] Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease

D Erny, N Dokalis, C Mezö, A Castoldi, O Mossad… - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
As tissue macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia constitute the pivotal
immune cells of this organ. Microglial features are strongly dependent on environmental …

Mitochondria metabolism sets the species-specific tempo of neuronal development

R Iwata, P Casimir, E Erkol, L Boubakar, M Planque… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Neuronal development in the human cerebral cortex is considerably prolonged compared
with that of other mammals. We explored whether mitochondria influence the species …

Lipid signalling enforces functional specialization of Treg cells in tumours

SA Lim, J Wei, TLM Nguyen, H Shi, W Su, G Palacios… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are essential for immune tolerance, but also drive
immunosuppression in the tumour microenvironment. Therapeutic targeting of Treg cells in …

Fatty acid synthesis is required for breast cancer brain metastasis

GB Ferraro, A Ali, A Luengo, DP Kodack, A Deik… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Brain metastases are refractory to therapies that control systemic disease in patients with
human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer and the brain …

[HTML][HTML] NMR spectroscopy for metabolomics research

AH Emwas, R Roy, RT McKay, L Tenori, E Saccenti… - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the past two decades, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has emerged as one of the
three principal analytical techniques used in metabolomics (the other two being gas …

[PDF][PDF] Polyamine metabolism is a central determinant of helper T cell lineage fidelity

DJ Puleston, F Baixauli, DE Sanin, J Edwards-Hicks… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Polyamine synthesis represents one of the most profound metabolic changes during T cell
activation, but the biological implications of this are scarcely known. Here, we show that …

Identification of bioactive metabolites using activity metabolomics

MM Rinschen, J Ivanisevic, M Giera… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
The metabolome, the collection of small-molecule chemical entities involved in metabolism,
has traditionally been studied with the aim of identifying biomarkers in the diagnosis and …

Single-cell metabolic profiling of human cytotoxic T cells

FJ Hartmann, D Mrdjen, E McCaffrey, DR Glass… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular metabolism regulates immune cell activation, differentiation and effector functions,
but current metabolic approaches lack single-cell resolution and simultaneous …