Tumor glycolysis, an essential sweet tooth of tumor cells

S Paul, S Ghosh, S Kumar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer cells undergo metabolic alterations to meet the immense demand for energy,
building blocks, and redox potential. Tumors show glucose-avid and lactate-secreting …

Amino acid depletion therapies: starving cancer cells to death

M Butler, LT van der Meer, FN van Leeuwen - Trends in Endocrinology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Targeting tumor cell metabolism is an attractive form of therapy, as it may enhance treatment
response in therapy resistant cancers as well as mitigate treatment-related toxicities by …

PERK is a critical metabolic hub for immunosuppressive function in macrophages

LN Raines, H Zhao, Y Wang, HY Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic inflammation triggers compensatory immunosuppression to stop inflammation and
minimize tissue damage. Studies have demonstrated that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress …

Serine synthesis pathway inhibition cooperates with dietary serine and glycine limitation for cancer therapy

M Tajan, M Hennequart, EC Cheung, F Zani… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many tumour cells show dependence on exogenous serine and dietary serine and glycine
starvation can inhibit the growth of these cancers and extend survival in mice. However …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress signalling–from basic mechanisms to clinical applications

A Almanza, A Carlesso, C Chintha… - The FEBS …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a membranous intracellular organelle and the first
compartment of the secretory pathway. As such, the ER contributes to the production and …

Atherosclerosis and inflammation: insights from the theory of general pathological processes

E Gusev, A Sarapultsev - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent advances have greatly improved our understanding of the molecular mechanisms
behind atherosclerosis pathogenesis. However, there is still a need to systematize this data …

Serine, glycine and one-carbon metabolism in cancer

S Pan, M Fan, Z Liu, X Li… - … Journal of Oncology, 2020 - spandidos-publications.com
Serine/glycine biosynthesis and one-carbon metabolism are crucial in sustaining cancer cell
survival and rapid proliferation, and of high clinical relevance. Excessive activation of …

The mTORC1-mediated activation of ATF4 promotes protein and glutathione synthesis downstream of growth signals

ME Torrence, MR MacArthur, AM Hosios, AJ Valvezan… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) stimulates a coordinated
anabolic program in response to growth-promoting signals. Paradoxically, recent studies …

A stay of execution: ATF4 regulation and potential outcomes for the integrated stress response

G Neill, GR Masson - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
ATF4 is a cellular stress induced bZIP transcription factor that is a hallmark effector of the
integrated stress response. The integrated stress response is triggered by phosphorylation …

Dihydroartemisinin-induced unfolded protein response feedback attenuates ferroptosis via PERK/ATF4/HSPA5 pathway in glioma cells

Y Chen, Y Mi, X Zhang, Q Ma, Y Song, L Zhang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Springer
Background Dihydroartemisinin (DHA) has been shown to exert anticancer activity through
iron-dependent reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, which is similar to ferroptosis, a …