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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2020

Targeted Metabolic Reprogramming to Improve the Efficacy of Oncolytic Virus Therapy.

Barry E Kennedy, Maryanne Sadek, Shashi A Gujar

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. The emerging role of oncolytic virotherapy in genitourinary malignancies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  9. Reprogramming of glucose metabolism in virus infected cells.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2023
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  11. Host mitochondria: more than an organelle in SARS-CoV-2 infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
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  14. Targeting memory T cell metabolism to improve immunity.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Barry E KennedyDepartment of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada.
Maryanne SadekDepartment of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada.
Shashi A GujarDepartment of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada; Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada; Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada. Electronic address: shashi.gujar@dal.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent a promising new class of cancer therapeutics and cause antitumor effects by two major mechanisms: (1) directly killing cancer cells in a process known as oncolysis, or (2) initiating a powerful antitumor immune response. Interestingly, energy metabolism, within either cancer cells or immune cells, plays a pivotal role in defining the outcome of OV-mediated antitumor effects. Following therapeutic administration, OVs must hijack host cell metabolic pathways to acquire building blocks such as nucleotides, lipids, and amino acids for the process of replication that is necessary for oncolysis. Additionally, OV-stimulated antitumor immune responses are highly dependent on the metabolic state within the tumor microenvironment. Thus, metabolic reprogramming strategies bear the potential to enhance the efficacy of both OV-mediated oncolysis and antitumor immune responses.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyOncolytic VirotherapyAnimalsCellular ReprogrammingEnergy MetabolismGenetic VectorsHumansImmunomodulationMetabolic Networks and PathwaysNeoplasmsOncolytic VirusesOxidative PhosphorylationTreatment Outcomecancer metabolismglycolysisimmunometabolismmetabolic reprogrammingoncolytic virusoxidative phosphorylationpyruvate metabolismTCA cycle

Identifiers

PMID32243836
PMCPMC7264427

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