The metabolic mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis

L Wang, S Zhang, X Wang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy among women worldwide. Metastasis
is mainly responsible for treatment failure and is the cause of most breast cancer deaths …

Glucose metabolism and glucose transporters in breast cancer

E Shin, JS Koo - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide and is associated with
high mortality rates despite the continuously advancing treatment strategies. Glucose is …

Packaging and transfer of mitochondrial DNA via exosomes regulate escape from dormancy in hormonal therapy-resistant breast cancer

P Sansone, C Savini, I Kurelac… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The horizontal transfer of mtDNA and its role in mediating resistance to therapy and an exit
from dormancy have never been investigated. Here we identified the full mitochondrial …

CTLA-4 blockade drives loss of Treg stability in glycolysis-low tumours

R Zappasodi, I Serganova, IJ Cohen, M Maeda… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Limiting metabolic competition in the tumour microenvironment may increase the
effectiveness of immunotherapy. Owing to its crucial role in the glucose metabolism of …

Metabolic reprogramming in breast cancer and its therapeutic implications

N Gandhi, GM Das - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Current standard-of-care (SOC) therapy for breast cancer includes targeted therapies such
as endocrine therapy for estrogen receptor-alpha (ERα) positive; anti-HER2 monoclonal …

Metabolic plasticity as a determinant of tumor growth and metastasis

C Lehuédé, F Dupuy, R Rabinovitch, RG Jones… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
Cancer cells must adapt their metabolism to meet the energetic and biosynthetic demands
that accompany rapid growth of the primary tumor and colonization of distinct metastatic …

The lncRNA MACC1-AS1 promotes gastric cancer cell metabolic plasticity via AMPK/Lin28 mediated mRNA stability of MACC1

Y Zhao, Y Liu, L Lin, Q Huang, W He, S Zhang, S Dong… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background Metabolic plasticity has been increasingly thought to be a determinant of tumor
growth and metastasis. MACC1, a transcriptional regulator of MET, was recognized as an …

FADS1/2 control lipid metabolism and ferroptosis susceptibility in triple-negative breast cancer

N Lorito, A Subbiani, A Smiriglia, M Bacci… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has limited therapeutic options, is highly metastatic
and characterized by early recurrence. Lipid metabolism is generally deregulated in TNBC …

Why all the fuss about oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS)?

Y Xu, D Xue, A Bankhead III… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Certain subtypes of cancer cells require oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) to survive.
Increased OXPHOS dependency is frequently a hallmark of cancer stem cells and cells …

Metabolic strategies of melanoma cells: Mechanisms, interactions with the tumor microenvironment, and therapeutic implications

GM Fischer, YN Vashisht Gopal… - Pigment cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Melanomas are metabolically heterogeneous, and they are able to adapt in order to utilize a
variety of fuels that facilitate tumor progression and metastasis. The significance of …