Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2

A Szwed, E Kim, E Jacinto - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cells metabolize nutrients for biosynthetic and bioenergetic needs to fuel growth and
proliferation. The uptake of nutrients from the environment and their intracellular metabolism …

Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in cancer cells supporting enhanced growth and proliferation

C Schiliro, BL Firestein - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells alter metabolic processes to sustain their characteristic uncontrolled growth
and proliferation. These metabolic alterations include (1) a shift from oxidative …

[HTML][HTML] The science and translation of lactate shuttle theory

GA Brooks - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Once thought to be a waste product of anaerobic metabolism, lactate is now known to form
continuously under aerobic conditions. Shuttling between producer and consumer cells …

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 …

Targeting metabolism for cancer therapy

A Luengo, DY Gui, MG Vander Heiden - Cell chemical biology, 2017 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming contributes to tumor development and introduces metabolic
liabilities that can be exploited to treat cancer. Chemotherapies targeting metabolism have …

Reprogramming of glutamine metabolism and its impact on immune response in the tumor microenvironment

G Ma, Z Zhang, P Li, Z Zhang, M Zeng, Z Liang… - Cell Communication and …, 2022 - Springer
Metabolic reprogramming and immune escape play a major role in tumorigenesis.
Increasing number of studies have shown that reprogramming of glutamine metabolism is a …

ROS homeostasis and metabolism: a dangerous liason in cancer cells

E Panieri, MM Santoro - Cell death & disease, 2016 - nature.com
Tumor cells harbor genetic alterations that promote a continuous and elevated production of
reactive oxygen species. Whereas such oxidative stress conditions would be harmful to …

Reexamining cancer metabolism: lactate production for carcinogenesis could be the purpose and explanation of the Warburg Effect

I San-Millán, GA Brooks - Carcinogenesis, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Herein, we use lessons learned in exercise physiology and metabolism to propose that
augmented lactate production ('lactagenesis'), initiated by gene mutations, is the reason and …

Tumor microenvironment derived exosomes pleiotropically modulate cancer cell metabolism

H Zhao, L Yang, J Baddour, A Achreja, V Bernard… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a major cellular component of tumor
microenvironment in most solid cancers. Altered cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer …

Metabolic reprogramming for cancer cells and their microenvironment: Beyond the Warburg Effect

L Sun, C Suo, S Li, H Zhang, P Gao - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2018 - Elsevier
While metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells has long been considered from the
standpoint of how and why cancer cells preferentially utilize glucose via aerobic glycolysis …