title: Lactate as an insidious metabolite due to the Warburg effect.
abstract: Although oncogenetics remains a critical component of cancer biology and therapeutic research, recent interest has been taken towards the non-genetic features of tumour development and progression, such as cancer metabolism. Specifically, it has been observed that tumour cells are inclined to preferentially undergo glycolysis despite presence of adequate oxygen. First reported by Otto Warburg in the 1920s, and now termed the 'Warburg effect', this aberrant metabolism has become of particular interest due to the prevalence of the fermentation phenotype in a variety of cancers studied. Consequently, this phenotype has proven to play a pivotal role in cancer proliferation. As such Warburg's observations are now being integrated within the modern paradigms of cancer and in this review we explore the role of lactate as an insidious metabolite due to the Warburg effect.
authors: Epigenomic Medicine, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors: Raymond
authors: R
authors: Luc
authors: Stephanie M
authors: SM
authors: Tortorella
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Ververis
authors: Tom C
authors: TC
authors: Karagiannis
mesh_terms: D006019:Glycolysis; D006801:Humans; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D019344:Lactic Acid