ReviewFrontiers in oncology2016
Hijacking the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway to Promote EMT-Mediated Neoplastic Phenotypes.
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- The Role of Glucose Metabolism inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Feedback Between Metabolic Reprogramming and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Interventions.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Decoding the regulatory code: O-GlcNAcylation in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Review
- Exploring the metabolic signaling network of GFPT in cancer.Cell death discovery · 2025Review
- Overexpression of Fatty Acid Synthase Upregulates Glutamine-Fructose-6-Phosphate Transaminase 1 and O-Linked N-Acetylglucosamine Transferase to Increase O-GlcNAc Protein Glycosylation and Promote Colorectal Cancer Growth.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Pathomechanisms of Diabetic Kidney Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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- Multiomics Analysis of Spatially Distinct Stromal Cells Reveals Tumor-Induced O-Glycosylation of the CDK4-pRB Axis in Fibroblasts at the Invasive Tumor Edge.Cancer research · 2022Article
- The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway-related gene signature correlates with immune infiltration and predicts prognosis of patients with osteosarcoma.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- The Warburg effect is necessary to promote glycosylation in the blastema during zebrafish tail regeneration.NPJ Regenerative medicine · 2021Article
- Spatial N-glycomics of the human aortic valve in development and pediatric endstage congenital aortic valve stenosis.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2021Article
- Antioxidant Effects and Mechanisms of Medicinal Plants and Their Bioactive Compounds for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Review.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2020Review
- Correlations between the metabolic profile andScientific reports · 2019Article
- Enhanced hexosamine metabolism drives metabolic and signaling networks involving hyaluronan production and O-GlcNAcylation to exacerbate breast cancer.Cell death & disease · 2019Article
- Glycosylation and its implications in breast cancer.Expert review of proteomics · 2019Review
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- O-GlcNAcylation of GLI transcription factors in hyperglycemic conditions augments Hedgehog activity.Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology · 2019Article
- Hexosamine pathway regulates StarD7 expression in JEG-3 cells.Molecular biology reports · 2018Article
- O-GlcNAcylation is required for mutant KRAS-induced lung tumorigenesis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2018Article
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Abstract
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a highly conserved program necessary for orchestrating distant cell migration during embryonic development. Multiple studies in cancer have demonstrated a critical role for EMT during the initial stages of tumorigenesis and later during tumor invasion. Transcription factors (TFs) such as SNAIL, TWIST, and ZEB are master EMT regulators that are aberrantly overexpressed in many malignancies. Recent evidence correlates EMT-related transcriptomic alterations with metabolic reprograming in cancer. Metabolic alterations may allow cancer to adapt to environmental stressors, supporting the irregular macromolecular demand of rapid proliferation. One potential metabolic pathway of increasing importance is the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HBP). The HBP utilizes glycolytic intermediates to generate the metabolite UDP-GlcNAc. This and other charged nucleotide sugars serve as the basis for biosynthesis of glycoproteins and other glycoconjugates. Recent reports in the field of glycobiology have cultivated great curiosity within the cancer research community. However, specific mechanistic relationships between the HBP and fundamental pathways of cancer, such as EMT, have yet to be elucidated. Altered protein glycosylation downstream of the HBP is well positioned to mediate many cellular changes associated with EMT including cell-cell adhesion, responsiveness to growth factors, immune system evasion, and signal transduction programs. Here, we outline some of the basics of the HBP and putative roles the HBP may have in driving EMT-related cancer processes. With novel appreciation of the HBP's connection to EMT, we hope to illuminate the potential for new therapeutic targets of cancer.
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