Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency

NJ Mullen, PK Singh - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic alterations are a key hallmark of cancer cells, and the augmented synthesis and
use of nucleotide triphosphates is a critical and universal metabolic dependency of cancer …

Targeting nucleotide metabolism: a promising approach to enhance cancer immunotherapy

H Wu, Y Gong, P Ji, Y Xie, YZ Jiang, G Liu - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Targeting nucleotide metabolism can not only inhibit tumor initiation and progression but
also exert serious side effects. With in-depth studies of nucleotide metabolism, our …

GCN2 inhibition sensitizes arginine-deprived hepatocellular carcinoma cells to senolytic treatment

R Missiaen, NM Anderson, LC Kim, B Nance… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a typically fatal malignancy exhibiting genetic
heterogeneity and limited therapy responses. We demonstrate here that HCCs consistently …

Metabolism drives macrophage heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment

S Li, J Yu, A Huber, I Kryczek, Z Wang, L Jiang, X Li… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are a major cellular component in the tumor
microenvironment (TME). However, the relationship between the phenotype and metabolic …

AXL and error-prone DNA replication confer drug resistance and offer strategies to treat EGFR-mutant lung cancer

A Noronha, N Belugali Nataraj, JS Lee, B Zhitomirsky… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Anticancer therapies have been limited by the emergence of mutations and other
adaptations. In bacteria, antibiotics activate the SOS response, which mobilizes error-prone …

Regulation of nucleotide metabolism in cancers and immune disorders

ES Ali, I Ben-Sahra - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Nucleotides are the foundational elements of life. Proliferative cells acquire nutrients for
energy production and the synthesis of macromolecules, including proteins, lipids, and …

Mutant p53 sustains serine-glycine synthesis and essential amino acids intake promoting breast cancer growth

C Tombari, A Zannini, R Bertolio, S Pedretti… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reprogramming of amino acid metabolism, sustained by oncogenic signaling, is crucial for
cancer cell survival under nutrient limitation. Here we discovered that missense mutant p53 …

Targeting nucleotide metabolism as the nexus of viral infections, cancer, and the immune response

Y Ariav, JH Ch'ng, HR Christofk, N Ron-Harel… - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Virus-infected cells and cancers share metabolic commonalities that stem from their
insatiable need to replicate while evading the host immune system. These similarities …

The context-specific roles of urea cycle enzymes in tumorigenesis

E Hajaj, M Sciacovelli, C Frezza, A Erez - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The expression of the urea cycle (UC) proteins is dysregulated in multiple cancers, providing
metabolic benefits to tumor survival, proliferation, and growth. Here, we review the main …

HIF: a master regulator of nutrient availability and metabolic cross‐talk in the tumor microenvironment

R Missiaen, NP Lesner, MC Simon - The EMBO journal, 2023 - embopress.org
A role for hypoxia‐inducible factors (HIFs) in hypoxia‐dependent regulation of tumor cell
metabolism has been thoroughly investigated and covered in reviews. However, there is …