Although extensively studied,it is unknown what is the major cellular energy driving tumor metastasis after anti-cancer radiotherapy.Metabolic reprogramming is one of the fundamental hallmarks in carcinogenesis and tu...Although extensively studied,it is unknown what is the major cellular energy driving tumor metastasis after anti-cancer radiotherapy.Metabolic reprogramming is one of the fundamental hallmarks in carcinogenesis and tumor progression featured with the increased glycolysis in solid tumors.However,accumulating evidence indicates that in addition to the rudimentary glycolytic pathway,tumor cells are capable of reactivating mitochondrial OxPHOS under genotoxic stress condition to meet the increasing cellular fuel demand for repairing and surviving anti-cancer radiation.Such dynamic metabolic rewiring may play a key role in cancer therapy resistance and metastasis.Interestingly,data from our group and others have demonstrated that cancer cells can re-activate mitochondrial oxidative respiration to boost an annexing energy to meet the increasing cellular fuel demand for tumor cells surviving genotoxic anti-cancer therapy with metastatic potential.展开更多
基金J.J.L is supported by a US National Institutes of Health(NIH)grant(RO1 CA213830).
文摘Although extensively studied,it is unknown what is the major cellular energy driving tumor metastasis after anti-cancer radiotherapy.Metabolic reprogramming is one of the fundamental hallmarks in carcinogenesis and tumor progression featured with the increased glycolysis in solid tumors.However,accumulating evidence indicates that in addition to the rudimentary glycolytic pathway,tumor cells are capable of reactivating mitochondrial OxPHOS under genotoxic stress condition to meet the increasing cellular fuel demand for repairing and surviving anti-cancer radiation.Such dynamic metabolic rewiring may play a key role in cancer therapy resistance and metastasis.Interestingly,data from our group and others have demonstrated that cancer cells can re-activate mitochondrial oxidative respiration to boost an annexing energy to meet the increasing cellular fuel demand for tumor cells surviving genotoxic anti-cancer therapy with metastatic potential.
