ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022
The Metabolic and Non-Metabolic Roles of UCK2 in Tumor Progression.
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- A prognostic model based on nucleotide metabolism genes in osteosarcoma.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Uridine cytidine kinases govern molnupiravir bioactivation and anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Extracellular matrix-growth factor signalling drives the oncogenic mir-125b-2/UCK2 axis in hepatocellular carcinoma.Hereditas · 2026Article
- Predicting neuroblastoma prognosis using machine learning analysis of metabolism-related gene network perturbation.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Uridine-cytidine kinase 2 as a novel potential prognostic and therapeutic biomarker in gastric cancer.Translational cancer research · 2025Article
- Construction of a novel G2/M checkpoint-related gene signature for prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma based on machine learning.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Uridine as a hub in cancer metabolism and RNA biology.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Comprehensive multi-omics analysis of nucleotide metabolism: elucidating the role and prognostic significance of UCK2 in bladder cancer.Functional & integrative genomics · 2025Article
- mTORC1 regulates the pyrimidine salvage pathway by controlling UCK2 turnover via the CTLH-WDR26 E3 ligase.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Uridine-cytidine kinase 2 is correlated with immune, DNA damage repair and promotion of cancer stemness in pan-cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- The Role of Uridine in Health and Disease.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Review
- Glucose limitation protects cancer cells from apoptosis induced by pyrimidine restriction and replication inhibition.Nature metabolism · 2024Article
- Development of a novel centrosome-related risk signature to predict prognosis and treatment response in lung adenocarcinoma.Discover oncology · 2024Article
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- UCK2 promotes intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma progression and desensitizes cisplatin treatment by PI3K/AKT/mTOR/autophagic axis.Cell death discovery · 2024Article
- Integrative Analyses of Pyrimidine Salvage Pathway-Related Genes Revealing the Associations Between UPP1 and Tumor Microenvironment.Journal of inflammation research · 2024Article
- Uridine-cytidine kinase 2 potentiates the mutagenic influence of the antiviral β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- Chemical Approaches To Investigate Post-transcriptional RNA Regulation.ACS chemical biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Enhanced nucleoside metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Uridine-cytidine kinase 2 (UCK2) is a rate-limiting enzyme of the pyrimidine salvage synthesis pathway to phosphorylate uridine and cytidine to uridine monophosphate (UMP) and cytidine monophosphate (CMP), respectively. Recent studies have shown that UCK2 is overexpressed in many types of solid and hematopoietic cancers, closely associates with poor prognosis, and promotes cell proliferation and migration in lung cancer and HCCs. Although UCK2 is thought to catalyze sufficient nucleotide building blocks to support the rapid proliferation of tumor cells, we and other groups have recently demonstrated that UCK2 may play a tumor-promoting role in a catalytic independent manner by activating oncogenic signaling pathways, such as STAT3 and EGFR-AKT. By harnessing the catalytic activity of UCK2, several cytotoxic ribonucleoside analogs, such as TAS-106 and RX-3117, have been developed for UCK2-mediated cancer chemotherapy. Moreover, we have demonstrated that the concurrent targeting of the catalytic dependent and independent features of UCK2 could synergistically inhibit tumor growth. These findings suggest that UCK2 may serve as a potential therapeutic target for cancer treatment. In this mini-review, we introduced the genomic localization and protein structure of UCK2, described the role of UCK2 in tumor development, discussed the application of UCK2 in anti-tumor treatment, and proposed concurrent targeting of the catalytic and non-catalytic roles of UCK2 as a potential therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment.
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