| Literature DB >> 22306135 |
Eric K Oermann1, Jing Wu, Kun-Liang Guan, Yue Xiong.
Abstract
Altered metabolic regulation has long been observed in human cancer and broadly used in the clinic for tumor detection. Two recent findings--the direct regulation of metabolic enzymes by frequently mutated cancer genes and frequent mutations of several metabolic enzymes themselves in cancer--have renewed interest in cancer metabolism. Supporting a causative role of altered metabolic enzymes in tumorigenesis, abnormal levels of several metabolites have been found to play a direct role in cancer development. The alteration of metabolic genes and metabolites offer not only new biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis, but also potential new targets for cancer therapy.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22306135 PMCID: PMC3351496 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2012.01.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Semin Cell Dev Biol ISSN: 1084-9521 Impact factor: 7.727