ArticleBritish journal of cancer2021
Development of a rational strategy for integration of lactate dehydrogenase A suppression into therapeutic algorithms for head and neck cancer.
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- Research progress on lactate metabolism in lung cancer: Tumorigenesis, drug resistance and clinical translation (Review).Oncology reports · 2026Review
- Lactate metabolism and protein lactylation in inflammatory and tumor microenvironments.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Quantitative Imaging of Pyruvate Metabolism in a Patient With Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026Article
- Targeting the Warburg Effect in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Therapeutic Opportunities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Lysine lactylation-mediated post-translational modification: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic target exploration in tumour drug resistance.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Review
- Glucose Metabolic Reprogramming in Thyroid Cancer: Underlying Molecular Mechanisms and Links to Progression and Treatment.Current medical science · 2026Review
- Metabolomics using anion-exchange chromatography mass spectrometry for the analysis of cells, tissues and biofluids.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- LDHB silencing enhances the effects of radiotherapy by impairing nucleotide metabolism and promoting persistent DNA damage.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Developments in the study of the role of lactate metabolism in the genesis and progression of thyroid cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- First-in-Human Hyperpolarized MRI for Tumor Metabolism in HNSCC.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2024Article
- Reprogramming of Cellular Metabolism and Its Therapeutic Applications in Thyroid Cancer.Metabolites · 2022Review
- Metabolic targeting, immunotherapy and radiation in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Where do we go from here?Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Metabolic Reprogramming of Thyroid Cancer Cells and Crosstalk in Their Microenvironment.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundLactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a critical metabolic enzyme. LDH A (LDHA) overexpression is a hallmark of aggressive malignancies and has been linked to tumour initiation, reprogramming and progression in multiple tumour types. However, successful LDHA inhibition strategies have not materialised in the translational and clinical space. We sought to develop a rational strategy for LDHA suppression in the context of solid tumour treatment.
methodsWe utilised a doxycycline-inducible short hairpin RNA (shRNA) system to generate LDHA suppression. Lactate and LDH activity levels were measured biochemically and kinetically using hyperpolarised
resultsshRNA suppression of LDHA generated a time-dependent decrease in LDH activity with transient shifts in intracellular lactate levels, a decrease in carbon flux from pyruvate into lactate and compensatory shifts in metabolic flux in glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. LDHA suppression decreased cellular proliferation and temporarily stunted tumour growth in ATC and HNSCC xenografts but did not by itself result in tumour cure, owing to the maintenance of residual viable cells. Only when chronic LDHA suppression was combined with radiation was a functional cure achieved.
conclusionsSuccessful targeting of LDHA requires exquisite dose and temporal control without significant concomitant off-target toxicity. Combinatorial strategies with conventional radiation are feasible as long as the suppression is targeted, prolonged and non-toxic.
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