title: Famine versus feast: understanding the metabolism of tumors in vivo.
abstract: To fuel unregulated proliferation, cancer cells alter metabolism to support macromolecule biosynthesis. Cell culture studies have revealed how different oncogenic mutations and nutrients impact metabolism. Glucose and glutamine are the primary fuels used in vitro; however, recent studies have suggested that utilization of other amino acids as well as lipids and protein can also be important to cancer cells. Early investigations of tumor metabolism are translating these findings to the biology of whole tumors and suggest that additional complexity exists beyond nutrient availability alone in vivo. Whole-body metabolism and tumor heterogeneity also influence the metabolism of tumor cells, and successful targeting of metabolism for cancer therapy will require an understanding of tumor metabolism in vivo.
authors: Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors: Jared R
authors: JR
authors: Mayers
authors: Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: mvh@mit.edu.
authors: Matthew G
authors: MG
authors: Vander Heiden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D005502:Food; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D005973:Glutamine / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D013217:Starvation
chemical_list: D005973:Glutamine; D005947:Glucose
keywords: cancer metabolism; cell proliferation; nutrient availability; tumor metabolism
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