What is cancer metabolism?

LWS Finley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The uptake and metabolism of nutrients support fundamental cellular process from
bioenergetics to biomass production and cell fate regulation. While many studies of cell …

Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer

DA Guertin, KE Wellen - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Few metabolites can claim a more central and versatile role in cell metabolism than acetyl
coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA). Acetyl-CoA is produced during nutrient catabolism to fuel the …

Mitochondrial TCA cycle metabolites control physiology and disease

I Martínez-Reyes, NS Chandel - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria are signaling organelles that regulate a wide variety of cellular functions and
can dictate cell fate. Multiple mechanisms contribute to communicate mitochondrial fitness to …

The evolving metabolic landscape of chromatin biology and epigenetics

Z Dai, V Ramesh, JW Locasale - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular inputs to chromatin via cellular metabolism are modifiers of the epigenome. These
inputs—which include both nutrient availability as a result of diet and growth factor signalling …

Dietary fructose feeds hepatic lipogenesis via microbiota-derived acetate

S Zhao, C Jang, J Liu, K Uehara, M Gilbert, L Izzo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Consumption of fructose has risen markedly in recent decades owing to the use of sucrose
and high-fructose corn syrup in beverages and processed foods, and this has contributed to …

Acetyl-CoA carboxylases and diseases

Y Wang, W Yu, S Li, D Guo, J He, Y Wang - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCs) are enzymes that catalyze the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA
to produce malonyl-CoA. In mammals, ACC1 and ACC2 are two members of ACCs. ACC1 …

An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

[HTML][HTML] An overview: the diversified role of mitochondria in cancer metabolism

Y Sun, Y Guo, X Shi, X Chen, W Feng… - … journal of biological …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mitochondria are intracellular organelles involved in energy production, cell metabolism and
cell signaling. They are essential not only in the process of ATP synthesis, lipid metabolism …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts require proline synthesis by PYCR1 for the deposition of pro-tumorigenic extracellular matrix

EJ Kay, K Paterson, C Riera-Domingo, D Sumpton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Elevated production of collagen-rich extracellular matrix is a hallmark of cancer-associated
fibroblasts (CAFs) and a central driver of cancer aggressiveness. Here we find that proline, a …

Targeting fatty acid metabolism in glioblastoma

J Miska, NS Chandel - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a primary tumor of the brain defined by its uniform lethality and
resistance to conventional therapies. There have been considerable efforts to untangle the …