Global profiling strategies for mapping dysregulated metabolic pathways in cancer.
Cancer cells possess fundamentally altered metabolism that provides a foundation to support tumorigenicity and malignancy. Our understanding of the biochemical underpinnings of cancer has benefited from the integrated utilization of large-scale profiling platforms (e.g., genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), which, together, can provide a global assessment of how enzymes and their parent metabolic networks become altered in cancer to fuel tumor growth. This review presents several examples of how these integrated platforms have yielded fundamental insights into dysregulated metabolism in cancer. We will also discuss questions and challenges that must be addressed to more completely describe, and eventually control, the diverse metabolic pathways that support tumorigenesis.
Program in Metabolic Biology, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, 127 Morgan Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Daniel I
DI
Benjamin
Benjamin F
BF
Cravatt
Daniel K
DK
Nomura
D023281:Genomics; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D055432:Metabolomics; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D040901:Proteomics; D011770:Pyruvate Kinase / Q000378:metabolism
D011770:Pyruvate Kinase; D005947:Glucose