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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

SLC6A14 and SLC38A5 Drive the Glutaminolysis and Serine-Glycine-One-Carbon Pathways in Cancer.

Tyler Sniegowski, Ksenija Korac, Yangzom D Bhutia, Vadivel Ganapathy

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tyler SniegowskiDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Ksenija KoracDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Yangzom D BhutiaDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Vadivel GanapathyDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center · US

Funding

Carbidopa as an inhibitor of the TrpT/ID01 functional complex: A novel immunotherapy agentR03CA223271 · NCI · TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIS CENTER · PI BHUTIA, YANGZOM DOMA · 2019 to 2020
$153k
NCI NIH HHS R03 CA223271NIH HHS CA223271Welch Endowed Chair in Biochemistry BI-0028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The glutaminolysis and serine-glycine-one-carbon pathways represent metabolic reactions that are reprogramed and upregulated in cancer; these pathways are involved in supporting the growth and proliferation of cancer cells. Glutaminolysis participates in the production of lactate, an oncometabolite, and also in anabolic reactions leading to the synthesis of fatty acids and cholesterol. The serine-glycine-one-carbon pathway is involved in the synthesis of purines and pyrimidines and the control of the epigenetic signature (DNA methylation, histone methylation) in cancer cells. Methionine is obligatory for most of the methyl-transfer reactions in the form of S-adenosylmethionine; here, too, the serine-glycine-one-carbon pathway is necessary for the resynthesis of methionine following the methyl-transfer reaction. Glutamine, serine, glycine, and methionine are obligatory to fuel these metabolic pathways. The first three amino acids can be synthesized endogenously to some extent, but the need for these amino acids in cancer cells is so high that they also have to be acquired from extracellular sources. Methionine is an essential amino acid, thus making it necessary for cancer cells to acquire this amino acid solely from the extracellular milieu. Cancer cells upregulate specific amino acid transporters to meet this increased demand for these four amino acids. SLC6A14 and SLC38A5 are the two transporters that are upregulated in a variety of cancers to mediate the influx of glutamine, serine, glycine, and methionine into cancer cells. SLC6A14 is a Na

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amino acid transporterscancer-specific metabolismglutamine addictiononcometabolitesone-carbon metabolismSLC6A14 and SLC38A5

Identifiers

PMID33806675
PMCPMC8000594
OpenAlexW3134853307

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