EMT factors and metabolic pathways in cancer

I Georgakopoulos-Soares, DV Chartoumpekis… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) represents a biological program during which
epithelial cells lose their cell identity and acquire a mesenchymal phenotype. EMT is …

The epithelial–mesenchymal transition at the crossroads between metabolism and tumor progression

M Fedele, R Sgarra, S Battista, L Cerchia… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The transition between epithelial and mesenchymal phenotype is emerging as a key
determinant of tumor cell invasion and metastasis. It is a plastic process in which epithelial …

TGFβ2-induced formation of lipid droplets supports acidosis-driven EMT and the metastatic spreading of cancer cells

C Corbet, E Bastien, JP Santiago de Jesus… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Acidosis, a common characteristic of the tumor microenvironment, is associated with
alterations in metabolic preferences of cancer cells and progression of the disease. Here we …

TGFβ-induced metabolic reprogramming during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in cancer

W Hua, P Ten Dijke, S Kostidis, M Giera… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Metastasis is the most frequent cause of death in cancer patients. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal
transition (EMT) is the process in which cells lose epithelial integrity and become motile, a …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting lipid metabolism to overcome EMT-associated drug resistance via integrin β3/FAK pathway and tumor-associated macrophage repolarization using …

H Jin, Y He, P Zhao, Y Hu, J Tao, J Chen, Y Huang - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is closely associated with the development of drug
resistance. Lipid metabolism plays an important role in EMT. This work was to study the …

Elucidating the metabolic plasticity of cancer: mitochondrial reprogramming and hybrid metabolic states

D Jia, JH Park, KH Jung, H Levine, BA Kaipparettu - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
Aerobic glycolysis, also referred to as the Warburg effect, has been regarded as the
dominant metabolic phenotype in cancer cells for a long time. More recently, it has been …

Cholesterol and beyond-The role of the mevalonate pathway in cancer biology

A Göbel, M Rauner, LC Hofbauer… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is a multifaceted global disease. Transformation of a normal to a malignant cell takes
several steps, including somatic mutations, epigenetic alterations, metabolic reprogramming …

[HTML][HTML] Poly (rC)-binding protein 1 represses ferritinophagy-mediated ferroptosis in head and neck cancer

J Lee, JH You, JL Roh - Redox biology, 2022 - Elsevier
A cytosolic iron chaperone poly (rC)-binding protein 1 (PCBP1) is a multifunctional RNA-
binding protein involving gene transcription, RNA regulation, and iron loading to ferritins …

The weight of obesity in breast cancer progression and metastasis: Clinical and molecular perspectives

I Barone, C Giordano, D Bonofiglio, S Ando… - Seminars in cancer …, 2020 - Elsevier
The escalating epidemic of overweight and obesity is currently recognized as one of the
most significant health and economic concern worldwide. At the present time, over 1.9 billion …

Mitochondrial involvement in migration, invasion and metastasis

TV Denisenko, AS Gorbunova… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria in addition to be a main cellular power station, are involved in the regulation of
many physiological processes, such as generation of reactive oxygen species, metabolite …