The pentose phosphate pathway in health and disease

T TeSlaa, M Ralser, J Fan, JD Rabinowitz - Nature metabolism, 2023 - nature.com
The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is a glucose-oxidizing pathway that runs in parallel
to upper glycolysis to produce ribose 5-phosphate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide …

What is cancer metabolism?

LWS Finley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The uptake and metabolism of nutrients support fundamental cellular process from
bioenergetics to biomass production and cell fate regulation. While many studies of cell …

Role of glutathione in cancer: from mechanisms to therapies

L Kennedy, JK Sandhu, ME Harper, M Cuperlovic-Culf - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glutathione (GSH) is the most abundant non-protein thiol present at millimolar
concentrations in mammalian tissues. As an important intracellular antioxidant, it acts as a …

Mitochondrial TCA cycle metabolites control physiology and disease

I Martínez-Reyes, NS Chandel - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria are signaling organelles that regulate a wide variety of cellular functions and
can dictate cell fate. Multiple mechanisms contribute to communicate mitochondrial fitness to …

[HTML][HTML] Saturation of the mitochondrial NADH shuttles drives aerobic glycolysis in proliferating cells

Y Wang, E Stancliffe, R Fowle-Grider, R Wang, C Wang… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Proliferating cells exhibit a metabolic phenotype known as" aerobic glycolysis," which is
characterized by an elevated rate of glucose fermentation to lactate irrespective of oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell

ZR Thornburg, DM Bianchi, TA Brier, BR Gilbert… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We present a whole-cell fully dynamical kinetic model (WCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal cell
with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small …

Metabolomics and isotope tracing

C Jang, L Chen, JD Rabinowitz - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Great strides have been made over the past decade toward comprehensive study of
metabolism. Mass spectrometry (MS) has played a central role by enabling measurement of …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Fast automated reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic models for microbial species and communities

D Machado, S Andrejev, M Tramontano… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale metabolic models are instrumental in uncovering operating principles of
cellular metabolism, for model-guided re-engineering, and unraveling cross-feeding in …

An atlas of human metabolism

JL Robinson, P Kocabaş, H Wang, PE Cholley… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are valuable tools to study metabolism and
provide a scaffold for the integrative analysis of omics data. Researchers have developed …