NAD metabolism in cancer therapeutics

K Yaku, K Okabe, K Hikosaka, T Nakagawa - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells have a unique energy metabolism for sustaining rapid proliferation. The
preference for anaerobic glycolysis under normal oxygen conditions is a unique trait of …

Dietary approaches to cancer therapy

M Tajan, KH Vousden - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
The concept that dietary changes could improve the response to cancer therapy is extremely
attractive to many patients, who are highly motivated to take control of at least some aspect …

[HTML][HTML] PHGDH-mediated endothelial metabolism drives glioblastoma resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy

D Zhang, AM Li, G Hu, M Huang, F Yang, L Zhang… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
The efficacy of immunotherapy is limited by the paucity of T cells delivered and infiltrated into
the tumors through aberrant tumor vasculature. Here, we report that phosphoglycerate …

[HTML][HTML] Proteogenomic landscape of breast cancer tumorigenesis and targeted therapy

K Krug, EJ Jaehnig, S Satpathy, L Blumenberg… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The integration of mass spectrometry-based proteomics with next-generation DNA and RNA
sequencing profiles tumors more comprehensively. Here this" proteogenomics" approach …

Recent advances of targeting nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) for cancer drug discovery

H Tang, L Wang, T Wang, J Yang, S Zheng… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•NAMPT is overexpressed in cancers, associating with a poor prognosis and
tumor progression.•Extensive efforts have been made to improve efficacy and safety of early …

Cellular redox state constrains serine synthesis and nucleotide production to impact cell proliferation

FF Diehl, CA Lewis, BP Fiske, MG Vander Heiden - Nature metabolism, 2019 - nature.com
The de novo serine synthesis pathway is upregulated in many cancers. However, even
cancer cells with increased serine synthesis take up large amounts of serine from the …

Pyruvate transamination and NAD biosynthesis enable proliferation of succinate dehydrogenase-deficient cells by supporting aerobic glycolysis

L Ricci, FU Stanley, T Eberhart, F Mainini… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) is the mitochondrial enzyme converting succinate to
fumarate in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. SDH acts as a tumor suppressor with germline …

Beyond energy metabolism: exploiting the additional roles of NAMPT for cancer therapy

CM Heske - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells have increased requirements for NAD+. Thus, many cancers exhibit an
increased reliance on NAD+ production pathways. This dependence may be exploited …

Sources and sinks of serine in nutrition, health, and disease

MK Handzlik, CM Metallo - Annual Review of Nutrition, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Amino acid dysregulation has emerged as an important driver of disease progression in
various contexts. l-Serine lies at a central node of metabolism, linking carbohydrate …

The complexity of the serine glycine one-carbon pathway in cancer

M Reina-Campos, MT Diaz-Meco, J Moscat - Journal of Cell Biology, 2019 - rupress.org
The serine glycine and one-carbon pathway (SGOCP) is a crucially important metabolic
network for tumorigenesis, of unanticipated complexity, and with implications in the clinic …