[HTML][HTML] Metabolism and function of polyamines in cancer progression

IN Sari, T Setiawan, KS Kim, YT Wijaya, KW Cho… - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyamines are essential for the proliferation, differentiation, and development of
eukaryotes. They include spermine, spermidine, and the diamine precursor putrescine, and …

Polyamine homeostasis in development and disease

S Nakanishi, JL Cleveland - Medical Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polycationic polyamines are present in nearly all living organisms and are essential for
mammalian cell growth and survival, and for development. These positively charged …

One-carbon and polyamine metabolism as cancer therapy targets

A Islam, Z Shaukat, R Hussain, SL Gregory - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer metabolic reprogramming is essential for maintaining cancer cell survival and rapid
replication. A common target of this metabolic reprogramming is one-carbon metabolism …

Guanidino acid hydrolysis by the human enzyme annotated as agmatinase

M Sinn, M Stanoppi, F Hauth, JR Fleming, D Funck… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Guanidino acids such as taurocyamine, guanidinobutyrate, guanidinopropionate, and
guanidinoacetate have been detected in humans. However, except for guanidionacetate …

Agmatinase promotes the lung adenocarcinoma tumorigenesis by activating the NO-MAPKs-PI3K/Akt pathway

H Zhu, J Yin, D Chen, S He, H Chen - Cell Death & Disease, 2019 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death
worldwide. There is an urgent need to uncover the pathogenic mechanism to develop new …

Research progress and potential applications of spermidine in ocular diseases

W Han, H Li, B Chen - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Spermidine, a natural polyamine, exists in almost all human tissues, exhibiting broad
properties like anti-aging, autophagy induction, anti-inflammation, anti-oxidation, cell …

Recent advances on discovery of enzyme inhibitors from natural products using bioactivity screening

TC Yan, J Cao, LH Ye - Journal of Separation Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The essence of enzymes is to keep the homeostasis and balance of humans by catalyzing
metabolic responses and modulating cells. Suppression of an enzyme slows the progress of …

Identification of a polyamine-related signature and six novel prognostic biomarkers in oral squamous cell carcinoma

J Tang, X Wu, B Cheng, Y Lu - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Elevated polyamine levels are required for tumor transformation and development; however,
expression patterns of polyamines and their diagnostic potential have not been investigated …

Hyperglycemic conditions proliferate triple negative breast cancer cells: role of ornithine decarboxylase

CC Capellen, J Ortega-Rodas, MJ Morwitzer… - Breast cancer research …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Several cancer subtypes (pancreatic, breast, liver, and colorectal) rapidly advance
to higher aggressive stages in diabetes. Though hyperglycemia has been considered as a …

Probiotic induced synthesis of microbiota polyamine as a nutraceutical for metabolic syndrome and obesity-related type 2 diabetes

TI Bui, EA Britt, G Muthukrishnan, SR Gill - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiota regulates multiple facets of host metabolism and immunity through the
production of signaling metabolites, such as polyamines which are small organic …