Warburg effect in colorectal cancer: the emerging roles in tumor microenvironment and therapeutic implications

X Zhong, X He, Y Wang, Z Hu, H Huang, S Zhao… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of
cancer-related death worldwide. Countless CRC patients undergo disease progression. As …

Manipulating intratumoral fenton chemistry for enhanced chemodynamic and chemodynamic‐synergized multimodal therapy

Y Zhou, S Fan, L Feng, X Huang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) uses the tumor microenvironment‐assisted intratumoral
Fenton reaction for generating highly toxic hydroxyl free radicals (• OH) to achieve selective …

[HTML][HTML] A proteogenomic portrait of lung squamous cell carcinoma

S Satpathy, K Krug, PMJ Beltran, SR Savage, F Petralia… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) remains a leading cause of cancer death with few
therapeutic options. We characterized the proteogenomic landscape of LSCC, providing a …

Structures and general transport mechanisms by the major facilitator superfamily (MFS)

D Drew, RA North, K Nagarathinam… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is the largest known superfamily of secondary active
transporters. MFS transporters are responsible for transporting a broad spectrum of …

Lactate in the tumour microenvironment: From immune modulation to therapy

ZH Wang, WB Peng, P Zhang, XP Yang, Q Zhou - EBioMedicine, 2021 - thelancet.com
Disordered metabolic states, which are characterised by hypoxia and elevated levels of
metabolites, particularly lactate, contribute to the immunosuppression in the tumour …

The future of cancer immunotherapy: microenvironment-targeting combinations

YR Murciano-Goroff, AB Warner, JD Wolchok - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy holds the potential to induce durable responses, but only a minority of
patients currently respond. The etiologies of primary and secondary resistance to …

Lactate-lactylation hands between metabolic reprogramming and immunosuppression

L Chen, L Huang, Y Gu, W Cang, P Sun… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immune evasion and metabolic reprogramming are two fundamental hallmarks of cancer.
Interestingly, lactate closely links them together. However, lactate has long been recognized …

Lactic acid and an acidic tumor microenvironment suppress anticancer immunity

JX Wang, SYC Choi, X Niu, N Kang, H Xue… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immune evasion and altered metabolism, where glucose utilization is diverted to increased
lactic acid production, are two fundamental hallmarks of cancer. Although lactic acid has …

Structural basis of human monocarboxylate transporter 1 inhibition by anti-cancer drug candidates

N Wang, X Jiang, S Zhang, A Zhu, Y Yuan, H Xu, J Lei… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Proton-coupled monocarboxylate transporters MCT1-4 catalyze the transmembrane
movement of metabolically essential monocarboxylates and have been targeted for cancer …

Targeting the bicarbonate transporter SLC4A4 overcomes immunosuppression and immunotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer

F Cappellesso, MP Orban, N Shirgaonkar, E Berardi… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Solid tumors are generally characterized by an acidic tumor microenvironment (TME) that
favors cancer progression, therapy resistance and immune evasion. By single-cell RNA …