Tumor glycolysis, an essential sweet tooth of tumor cells

S Paul, S Ghosh, S Kumar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer cells undergo metabolic alterations to meet the immense demand for energy,
building blocks, and redox potential. Tumors show glucose-avid and lactate-secreting …

NADPH homeostasis in cancer: functions, mechanisms and therapeutic implications

HQ Ju, JF Lin, T Tian, D Xie, RH Xu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2020 - nature.com
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) is an essential electron donor in all
organisms, and provides the reducing power for anabolic reactions and redox balance …

Combining mechanistic and machine learning models for predictive engineering and optimization of tryptophan metabolism

J Zhang, SD Petersen, T Radivojevic, A Ramirez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Through advanced mechanistic modeling and the generation of large high-quality datasets,
machine learning is becoming an integral part of understanding and engineering living …

The Warburg effect 97 years after its discovery

RM Pascale, DF Calvisi, MM Simile, CF Feo, F Feo - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The deregulation of the oxidative metabolism in cancer cells,
characterized by an increased ratio between glycolysis and oxygen consumption (Warburgv …

Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

P Nowak-Sliwinska, K Alitalo, E Allen, A Anisimov… - Angiogenesis, 2018 - Springer
The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays
important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as …

Protein O-GlcNAcylation: emerging mechanisms and functions

X Yang, K Qian - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
O-GlcNAcylation—the attachment of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) moieties to
cytoplasmic, nuclear and mitochondrial proteins—is a post-translational modification that …

Reprogramming glucose metabolism in cancer: can it be exploited for cancer therapy?

N Hay - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
In recent years there has been a growing interest among cancer biologists in cancer
metabolism. This Review summarizes past and recent advances in our understanding of the …

The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway: regulation and function

A Paneque, H Fortus, J Zheng, G Werlen, E Jacinto - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HBP) produces uridine diphosphate-N-acetyl
glucosamine, UDP-GlcNAc, which is a key metabolite that is used for N-or O-linked …

Nutrient regulation of signaling and transcription

GW Hart - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
In the early 1980s, while using purified glycosyltransferases to probe glycan structures on
surfaces of living cells in the murine immune system, we discovered a novel form of …

Network integration of parallel metabolic and transcriptional data reveals metabolic modules that regulate macrophage polarization

AK Jha, SCC Huang, A Sergushichev, V Lampropoulou… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
Macrophage polarization involves a coordinated metabolic and transcriptional rewiring that
is only partially understood. By using an integrated high-throughput transcriptional …