The MYC oncogene — the grand orchestrator of cancer growth and immune evasion

R Dhanasekaran, A Deutzmann… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
The MYC proto-oncogenes encode a family of transcription factors that are among the most
commonly activated oncoproteins in human neoplasias. Indeed, MYC aberrations or …

Cellular adaptation to hypoxia through hypoxia inducible factors and beyond

P Lee, NS Chandel, MC Simon - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular oxygen (O2) sustains intracellular bioenergetics and is consumed by numerous
biochemical reactions, making it essential for most species on Earth. Accordingly, decreased …

Amino acids in cancer

EL Lieu, T Nguyen, S Rhyne, J Kim - Experimental & molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Over 90 years ago, Otto Warburg's seminal discovery of aerobic glycolysis
established metabolic reprogramming as one of the first distinguishing characteristics of …

Amino assets: how amino acids support immunity

B Kelly, EL Pearce - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Amino acids are fundamental building blocks supporting life. Their role in protein synthesis
is well defined, but they contribute to a host of other intracellular metabolic pathways …

Ferroptosis at the crossroads of cancer-acquired drug resistance and immune evasion

JP Friedmann Angeli, DV Krysko, M Conrad - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is a recently recognized cell death modality that is morphologically,
biochemically and genetically distinct from other forms of cell death and that has emerged to …

Hypoxia as a driver of resistance to immunotherapy

J Kopecka, IC Salaroglio, E Perez-Ruiz… - Drug Resistance …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypoxia, a hallmark of solid tumors, determines the selection of invasive and aggressive
malignant clones displaying resistance to radiotherapy, conventional chemotherapy or …

Extracellular vesicle-packaged HIF-1α-stabilizing lncRNA from tumour-associated macrophages regulates aerobic glycolysis of breast cancer cells

F Chen, J Chen, L Yang, J Liu, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer. Here, we demonstrate that tumour-
associated macrophages (TAMs) enhance the aerobic glycolysis and apoptotic resistance of …

Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis

Q Zeng, IP Michael, P Zhang, S Saghafinia, G Knott… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Metastasis—the disseminated growth of tumours in distant organs—underlies cancer
mortality. Breast-to-brain metastasis (B2BM) is a common and disruptive form of cancer and …

[HTML][HTML] SLC7A11/xCT in cancer: biological functions and therapeutic implications

W Lin, C Wang, G Liu, C Bi, X Wang… - American journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Amino acid transporters mediate substrates across cellular membranes and their fine-tuned
regulations are critical to cellular metabolism, growth, and death. As the functional …

Emerging roles for branched-chain amino acid metabolism in cancer

S Sivanand, MG Vander Heiden - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Metabolic pathways must be adapted to support cell processes required for transformation
and cancer progression. Amino acid metabolism is deregulated in many cancers, with …