The pentose phosphate pathway in health and disease

T TeSlaa, M Ralser, J Fan, JD Rabinowitz - Nature metabolism, 2023 - nature.com
The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is a glucose-oxidizing pathway that runs in parallel
to upper glycolysis to produce ribose 5-phosphate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide …

Metabolomics and isotope tracing

C Jang, L Chen, JD Rabinowitz - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Great strides have been made over the past decade toward comprehensive study of
metabolism. Mass spectrometry (MS) has played a central role by enabling measurement of …

Cystine transporter regulation of pentose phosphate pathway dependency and disulfide stress exposes a targetable metabolic vulnerability in cancer

X Liu, K Olszewski, Y Zhang, EW Lim, J Shi… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
SLC7A11-mediated cystine uptake is critical for maintaining redox balance and cell survival.
Here we show that this comes at a significant cost for cancer cells with high levels of …

Mitochondrial integrated stress response controls lung epithelial cell fate

SH Han, M Lee, Y Shin, R Giovanni, RP Chakrabarty… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Alveolar epithelial type 1 (AT1) cells are necessary to transfer oxygen and carbon
dioxide between the blood and air. Alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells serve as a partially …

Inflammatory macrophage dependence on NAD+ salvage is a consequence of reactive oxygen species–mediated DNA damage

AM Cameron, A Castoldi, DE Sanin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The adoption of Warburg metabolism is critical for the activation of macrophages in
response to lipopolysaccharide. Macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide increase …

MCART1/SLC25A51 is required for mitochondrial NAD transport

N Kory, J uit de Bos, S van der Rijt, N Jankovic… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+/NADH) pair is a cofactor in redox reactions
and is particularly critical in mitochondria as it connects substrate oxidation by the …

Distinct modes of mitochondrial metabolism uncouple T cell differentiation and function

W Bailis, JA Shyer, J Zhao, JCG Canaveras… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Activated CD4 T cells proliferate rapidly and remodel epigenetically before exiting the cell
cycle and engaging acquired effector functions. Metabolic reprogramming from the naive …

Restoring hippocampal glucose metabolism rescues cognition across Alzheimer's disease pathologies

PS Minhas, JR Jones, A Latif-Hernandez, Y Sugiura… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD),
with recent proteomic studies highlighting disrupted glial metabolism in AD. We report that …

Combinatorial GxGxE CRISPR screen identifies SLC25A39 in mitochondrial glutathione transport linking iron homeostasis to OXPHOS

X Shi, B Reinstadler, H Shah, TL To, K Byrne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The SLC25 carrier family consists of 53 transporters that shuttle nutrients and co-factors
across mitochondrial membranes. The family is highly redundant and their transport …

Hepatic NADH reductive stress underlies common variation in metabolic traits

RP Goodman, AL Markhard, H Shah, R Sharma… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The cellular NADH/NAD+ ratio is fundamental to biochemistry, but the extent to which it
reflects versus drives metabolic physiology in vivo is poorly understood. Here we report the …