Metabolic communication in the tumour–immune microenvironment

KC Kao, S Vilbois, CH Tsai, PC Ho - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
The metabolically hostile tumour microenvironment imposes barriers to tumour-infiltrating
immune cells and impedes durable clinical remission following immunotherapy. Metabolic …

What is cancer metabolism?

LWS Finley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The uptake and metabolism of nutrients support fundamental cellular process from
bioenergetics to biomass production and cell fate regulation. While many studies of cell …

Cancer metabolism: looking forward

I Martínez-Reyes, NS Chandel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Tumour initiation and progression requires the metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells.
Cancer cells autonomously alter their flux through various metabolic pathways in order to …

Ketogenic diet for human diseases: the underlying mechanisms and potential for clinical implementations

H Zhu, D Bi, Y Zhang, C Kong, J Du, X Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, adequate-protein, and very-low-carbohydrate diet
regimen that mimics the metabolism of the fasting state to induce the production of ketone …

Tumour fatty acid metabolism in the context of therapy resistance and obesity

AJ Hoy, SR Nagarajan, LM Butler - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Fatty acid metabolism is known to support tumorigenesis and disease progression as well
as treatment resistance through enhanced lipid synthesis, storage and catabolism. More …

PI3K inhibitors are finally coming of age

B Vanhaesebroeck, MWD Perry, JR Brown… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Overactive phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in cancer and immune dysregulation
has spurred extensive efforts to develop therapeutic PI3K inhibitors. Although progress has …

Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2

A Szwed, E Kim, E Jacinto - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cells metabolize nutrients for biosynthetic and bioenergetic needs to fuel growth and
proliferation. The uptake of nutrients from the environment and their intracellular metabolism …

Attacking the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway for targeted therapeutic treatment in human cancer

L Yu, J Wei, P Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of human death globally. PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling is
one of the most frequently dysregulated signaling pathways observed in cancer patients that …

Peroxidation of n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the acidic tumor environment leads to ferroptosis-mediated anticancer effects

E Dierge, E Debock, C Guilbaud, C Corbet, E Mignolet… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor acidosis promotes disease progression through a stimulation of fatty acid (FA)
metabolism in cancer cells. Instead of blocking the use of FAs by acidic cancer cells, we …

Metabolites and the tumour microenvironment: from cellular mechanisms to systemic metabolism

I Elia, MC Haigis - Nature metabolism, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolic transformation is a hallmark of cancer and a critical target for cancer therapy.
Cancer metabolism and behaviour are regulated by cell-intrinsic factors as well as …