Metabolism, metabolites, and macrophages in cancer

M Li, Y Yang, L Xiong, P Jiang, J Wang, C Li - Journal of hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) are crucial components of the tumour
microenvironment and play a significant role in tumour development and drug resistance by …

Immunotherapy for osteosarcoma: Fundamental mechanism, rationale, and recent breakthroughs

C Chen, L Xie, T Ren, Y Huang, J Xu, W Guo - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary malignancy of the bone and has a high
propensity for local invasion and metastasis. Although combining surgery with …

Metabolic codependencies in the tumor microenvironment

P Dey, AC Kimmelman, RA DePinho - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Metabolic reprogramming enables cancer cell growth, proliferation, and survival. This
reprogramming is driven by the combined actions of oncogenic alterations in cancer cells …

Amino acid depletion therapies: starving cancer cells to death

M Butler, LT van der Meer, FN van Leeuwen - Trends in Endocrinology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Targeting tumor cell metabolism is an attractive form of therapy, as it may enhance treatment
response in therapy resistant cancers as well as mitigate treatment-related toxicities by …

Antitumor activity without on-target off-tumor toxicity of GD2–chimeric antigen receptor T cells in patients with neuroblastoma

K Straathof, B Flutter, R Wallace, N Jain… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
The reprogramming of a patient's immune system through genetic modification of the T cell
compartment with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has led to durable remissions in …

[HTML][HTML] Arginase: An emerging and promising therapeutic target for cancer treatment

F Niu, Y Yu, Z Li, Y Ren, Z Li, Q Ye, P Liu, C Ji… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Arginase is a key hydrolase in the urea cycle that hydrolyses L-arginine to urea and L-
ornithine. Increasing number of studies in recent years demonstrate that two mammalian …

Tumor microenvironment: a metabolic player that shapes the immune response

S Cassim, J Pouyssegur - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Immune cells survey and patrol throughout the body and sometimes take residence in niche
environments with distinct cellular subtypes and nutrients that may fluctuate from those in …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment and cellular senescence: Understanding therapeutic resistance and harnessing strategies

H Liu, H Zhao, Y Sun - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a major contributor to cancer malignancy including
development of therapeutic resistance, a process mediated in part through intercellular …

Developing targeted therapies for neuroblastoma by dissecting the effects of metabolic reprogramming on tumor microenvironments and progression

W Jin, Y Zhang, Z Zhao, M Gao - Theranostics, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Synergic reprogramming of metabolic dominates neuroblastoma (NB)
progression. It is of great clinical implications to develop an individualized risk …

Dual targeting of polyamine synthesis and uptake in diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas

A Khan, LD Gamble, DH Upton, C Ung, DMT Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an incurable malignant childhood brain tumor, with
no active systemic therapies and a 5-year survival of less than 1%. Polyamines are small …