Lactate in the regulation of tumor microenvironment and therapeutic approaches

KG de la Cruz-López, LJ Castro-Muñoz… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells must generate sufficient ATP and biosynthetic precursors in order to maintain
cell proliferation requirements. Otto Warburg showed that tumor cells uptake high amounts …

Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment

SA Kerk, T Papagiannakopoulos, YM Shah… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Oncogenic mutations in KRAS drive common metabolic programmes that facilitate tumour
survival, growth and immune evasion in colorectal carcinoma, non-small-cell lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Proteogenomic characterization identifies clinically relevant subgroups of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

L Dong, D Lu, R Chen, Y Lin, H Zhu, Z Zhang, S Cai… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
We performed proteogenomic characterization of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA)
using paired tumor and adjacent liver tissues from 262 patients. Integrated proteogenomic …

Metabolic codependencies in the tumor microenvironment

P Dey, AC Kimmelman, RA DePinho - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Metabolic reprogramming enables cancer cell growth, proliferation, and survival. This
reprogramming is driven by the combined actions of oncogenic alterations in cancer cells …

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 …

Lactate in the tumor microenvironment: an essential molecule in cancer progression and treatment

R Pérez-Tomás, I Pérez-Guillén - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The role of lactate in cancer described by Otto Warburg in 1927 states that
cancer cells uptake high amount of glucose with a marked increase in lactate production …

[HTML][HTML] Dual inhibition of the lactate transporters MCT1 and MCT4 is synthetic lethal with metformin due to NAD+ depletion in cancer cells

D Benjamin, D Robay, SK Hindupur, J Pohlmann… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Highly glycolytic cancer cells prevent intracellular acidification by excreting the glycolytic
end-products lactate and H+ via the monocarboxylate transporters 1 (MCT1) and 4 (MCT4) …

Employing metabolism to improve the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is on pace to become the second leading cause of
cancer-related death. The high mortality rate results from a lack of methods for early …

The influence of metabolism on drug response in cancer

EA Zaal, CR Berkers - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Resistance to therapeutic agents, either intrinsic or acquired, is currently a major problem in
the treatment of cancers and occurs in virtually every type of anti-cancer therapy. Therefore …

Restricting glycolysis preserves T cell effector functions and augments checkpoint therapy

K Renner, C Bruss, A Schnell, G Koehl, HM Becker… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Tumor-derived lactic acid inhibits T and natural killer (NK) cell function and, thereby, tumor
immunosurveillance. Here, we report that melanoma patients with high expression of …