Targeting cancer metabolism in the era of precision oncology

ZE Stine, ZT Schug, JM Salvino, CV Dang - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
One hundred years have passed since Warburg discovered alterations in cancer
metabolism, more than 70 years since Sidney Farber introduced anti-folates that …

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 …

Demethylzeylasteral targets lactate by inhibiting histone lactylation to suppress the tumorigenicity of liver cancer stem cells

L Pan, F Feng, J Wu, S Fan, J Han, S Wang… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer stem cells drive tumor initiation, progression, and recurrence, which compromise the
effectiveness of anti-tumor drugs. Here, we report that demethylzeylasteral (DML), a …

Therapeutic targeting of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment

DC Singleton, A Macann, WR Wilson - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Hypoxia is prevalent in human tumours and contributes to microenvironments that shape
cancer evolution and adversely affect therapeutic outcomes. Historically, two different …

Revisiting the Warburg effect: historical dogma versus current understanding

P Vaupel, G Multhoff - The Journal of physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Contrary to Warburg's original thesis, accelerated aerobic glycolysis is not a primary,
permanent and universal consequence of dysfunctional or impaired mitochondria …

The updated landscape of tumor microenvironment and drug repurposing

MZ Jin, WL Jin - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence shows that cellular and acellular components in tumor
microenvironment (TME) can reprogram tumor initiation, growth, invasion, metastasis, and …

Lactate in the tumour microenvironment: From immune modulation to therapy

ZH Wang, WB Peng, P Zhang, XP Yang, Q Zhou - EBioMedicine, 2021 - thelancet.com
Disordered metabolic states, which are characterised by hypoxia and elevated levels of
metabolites, particularly lactate, contribute to the immunosuppression in the tumour …

Aspects of the tumor microenvironment involved in immune resistance and drug resistance

K Khalaf, D Hana, JTT Chou, C Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a complex and ever-changing “rogue organ”
composed of its own blood supply, lymphatic and nervous systems, stroma, immune cells …

Metabolic reprogramming and cancer progression

B Faubert, A Solmonson, RJ DeBerardinis - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of malignancy first recognized a
century ago. In some cases, reprogrammed metabolic activities can be exploited to …

Engineered biomimetic nanoparticles achieve targeted delivery and efficient metabolism-based synergistic therapy against glioblastoma

G Lu, X Wang, F Li, S Wang, J Zhao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive brain cancer with a poor prognosis and few
treatment options. Here, building on the observation of elevated lactate (LA) in resected …