STAT proteins in cancer: orchestration of metabolism

YJ Li, C Zhang, A Martincuks, A Herrmann… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Reprogrammed metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. However, the metabolic dependency of
cancer, from tumour initiation through disease progression and therapy resistance, requires …

Mechanisms of mitochondrial respiratory adaptation

CF Bennett, P Latorre-Muro, P Puigserver - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Mitochondrial energetic adaptations encompass a plethora of conserved processes that
maintain cell and organismal fitness and survival in the changing environment by adjusting …

[HTML][HTML] Saturation of the mitochondrial NADH shuttles drives aerobic glycolysis in proliferating cells

Y Wang, E Stancliffe, R Fowle-Grider, R Wang, C Wang… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Proliferating cells exhibit a metabolic phenotype known as" aerobic glycolysis," which is
characterized by an elevated rate of glucose fermentation to lactate irrespective of oxygen …

Spatially restricted drivers and transitional cell populations cooperate with the microenvironment in untreated and chemo-resistant pancreatic cancer

D Cui Zhou, RG Jayasinghe, S Chen, JM Herndon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a lethal disease with limited treatment options and
poor survival. We studied 83 spatial samples from 31 patients (11 treatment-naïve and 20 …

The Warburg effect: a signature of mitochondrial overload

Y Wang, GJ Patti - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
A long-standing question in cancer biology has been why oxygenated tumors ferment the
majority of glucose they consume to lactate rather than oxidizing it in their mitochondria, a …

Increased demand for NAD+ relative to ATP drives aerobic glycolysis

A Luengo, Z Li, DY Gui, LB Sullivan, M Zagorulya… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aerobic glycolysis, or preferential fermentation of glucose-derived pyruvate to lactate despite
available oxygen, is associated with proliferation across many organisms and conditions. To …

The functional impact of mitochondrial structure across subcellular scales

B Glancy, Y Kim, P Katti, TB Willingham - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are key determinants of cellular health. However, the functional role of
mitochondria varies from cell to cell depending on the relative demands for energy …

Modulating mitofusins to control mitochondrial function and signaling

E Zacharioudakis, B Agianian, V Kumar MV… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mitofusins reside on the outer mitochondrial membrane and regulate mitochondrial fusion, a
physiological process that impacts diverse cellular processes. Mitofusins are activated by …

Oxidative metabolism drives immortalization of neural stem cells during tumorigenesis

F Bonnay, A Veloso, V Steinmann, T Köcher… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming is a key feature of many cancers, but how and when it contributes
to tumorigenesis remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that metabolic reprogramming …

Mitochondrial arginase-2 is essential for IL-10 metabolic reprogramming of inflammatory macrophages

JK Dowling, R Afzal, LJ Gearing… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondria are important regulators of macrophage polarisation. Here, we show that
arginase-2 (Arg2) is a microRNA-155 (miR-155) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) regulated protein …