Lipids as mediators of cancer progression and metastasis

FCE Vogel, AB Chaves-Filho, A Schulze - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Metastasis formation is a complex process, involving multiple crucial steps, which are
controlled by different regulatory mechanisms. In this context, the contribution of cancer …

Mechanisms of Polycomb group protein function in cancer

V Parreno, AM Martinez, G Cavalli - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer arises from a multitude of disorders resulting in loss of differentiation and a stem cell-
like phenotype characterized by uncontrolled growth. Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins are …

Copper depletion modulates mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to impair triple negative breast cancer metastasis

D Ramchandani, M Berisa, DA Tavarez, Z Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Copper serves as a co-factor for a host of metalloenzymes that contribute to malignant
progression. The orally bioavailable copper chelating agent tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has …

Phosphorylation of PDHA by AMPK drives TCA cycle to promote cancer metastasis

Z Cai, CF Li, F Han, C Liu, A Zhang, CC Hsu, D Peng… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer metastasis accounts for the major cause of cancer-related deaths. How
disseminated cancer cells cope with hostile microenvironments in secondary site for full …

Metastasis organotropism: redefining the congenial soil

Y Gao, I Bado, H Wang, W Zhang, JM Rosen… - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Metastasis is the most devastating stage of cancer progression and causes the majority of
cancer-related deaths. Clinical observations suggest that most cancers metastasize to …

Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells

G Pascual, D Domínguez, M Elosúa-Bayes… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Fatty acid uptake and altered metabolism constitute hallmarks of metastasis,, yet evidence of
the underlying biology, as well as whether all dietary fatty acids are prometastatic, is lacking …

Cancer stem cell plasticity–a deadly deal

AP Thankamony, K Saxena, R Murali… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a major ongoing challenge in the effective therapeutic targeting
of cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that a fraction of cells within a tumor termed …

Metabolic adaptations in cancer stem cells

UP Yadav, T Singh, P Kumar, P Sharma, H Kaur… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small and elusive subpopulation of self-renewing cancer
cells with remarkable ability to initiate, propagate, and spread the malignant disease. In …

Identification of metabolic pathways contributing to ER+ breast cancer disparities using a machine-learning pipeline

A Santaliz-Casiano, D Mehta, OC Danciu, H Patel… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
African American (AA) women in the United States have a 40% higher breast cancer
mortality rate than Non-Hispanic White (NHW) women. The survival disparity is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] GTPBP4 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression and metastasis via the PKM2 dependent glucose metabolism

Q Zhou, Y Yin, M Yu, D Gao, J Sun, Z Yang, J Weng… - Redox biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Guanosine triphosphate binding protein 4 (GTPBP4) is a key regulator of cell cycle
progression and MAPK activation. However, how its biological properties intersect with …