Targeting pyrimidine metabolism in the era of precision cancer medicine

W Wang, J Cui, H Ma, W Lu, J Huang - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic rewiring is considered as a primary feature of cancer. Malignant cells reprogram
metabolism pathway in response to various intrinsic and extrinsic drawback to fuel cell …

Pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme CAD: its function, regulation, and diagnostic potential

G Li, D Li, T Wang, S He - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
CAD (Carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 2, Aspartate transcarbamoylase, and
Dihydroorotase) is a multifunctional protein that participates in the initial three speed-limiting …

CAD mutations and uridine-responsive epileptic encephalopathy

J Koch, JA Mayr, B Alhaddad, C Rauscher, J Bierau… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Unexplained global developmental delay and epilepsy in childhood pose a major
socioeconomic burden. Progress in defining the molecular bases does not often translate …

Beyond genetics: deciphering the impact of missense variants in CAD deficiency

F del Caño‐Ochoa, BG Ng… - Journal of inherited …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
CAD is a large, 2225 amino acid multienzymatic protein required for de novo pyrimidine
biosynthesis. Pathological CAD variants cause a developmental and epileptic …

Deciphering CAD: Structure and function of a mega‐enzymatic pyrimidine factory in health and disease

F del Caño‐Ochoa, S Ramón‐Maiques - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CAD is a 1.5 MDa particle formed by hexameric association of a 250 kDa protein divided
into different enzymatic domains, each catalyzing one of the initial reactions for de novo …

Aberrantly methylated-differentially expressed genes and pathways in colorectal cancer

J Liu, H Li, L Sun, Z Wang, C Xing, Y Yuan - Cancer Cell International, 2017 - Springer
Background Methylation plays an important role in the etiology and pathogenesis of
colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed to identify aberrantly methylated-differentially …

[HTML][HTML] Plumbagin, a natural product with potent anticancer activities, binds to and inhibits dihydroorotase, a key enzyme in pyrimidine biosynthesis

HH Guan, YH Huang, ES Lin, CJ Chen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dihydroorotase (DHOase) is the third enzyme in the de novo biosynthesis pathway for
pyrimidine nucleotides, and an attractive target for potential anticancer chemotherapy. By …

The Host Protein CAD Regulates the Replication of FMDV through the Function of Pyrimidines' De Novo Synthesis

P Yang, Y Yuan, Y Sun, B Lv, H Du, Z Zhou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a single-stranded picornavirus that causes
economically devastating disease in even-hooved animals. There has been little research …

Novel CAD-ALK gene rearrangement is drugable by entrectinib in colorectal cancer

A Amatu, A Somaschini, G Cerea, R Bosotti… - British journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Background: Activated anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene fusions are recurrent events
in a small fraction of colorectal cancers (CRCs), although these events have not yet been …

Structural insight into the core of CAD, the multifunctional protein leading de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis

M Moreno-Morcillo, A Grande-García, A Ruiz-Ramos… - Structure, 2017 - cell.com
CAD, the multifunctional protein initiating and controlling de novo biosynthesis of
pyrimidines in animals, self-assembles into∼ 1.5 MDa hexamers. The structures of the …