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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022

MicroRNAs as Regulators of Cancer Cell Energy Metabolism.

Natarajaseenivasan Suriya Muthukumaran, Prema Velusamy, Charles Solomon Akino Mercy, Dianne Langford, Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan, Santhanam Shanmughapriya

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Natarajaseenivasan Suriya MuthukumaranDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prema VelusamyHeart and Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Dauphin, PA 17033, USA.
Charles Solomon Akino MercyMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India.
Dianne LangfordDepartment of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5381-0531
Kalimuthusamy NatarajaseenivasanMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India.
Santhanam ShanmughapriyaHeart and Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Dauphin, PA 17033, USA.
Bharathidasan University · INPennsylvania State University · USTemple University · US

Funding

Molecular link between MCU and Mrs2p channels for mitochondrial ion homeostasis and energy metabolismR00HL138268 · NHLBI · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI SANTHANAM, SHANMUGHAPRIYA · 2019 to 2021
$747k
Cocaine upregulates mitochondria-derived vesicular pathway for selective removal of oxidized cargoR21DA051798 · NIDA · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI KALIMUTHUSAMY, NATARAJASEENIVASAN · 2020 to 2021
$436k
NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL138268NIH HHS R00 HL138268NIH HHS R21DA051798
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To adapt to the tumor environment or to escape chemotherapy, cancer cells rapidly reprogram their metabolism. The hallmark biochemical phenotype of cancer cells is the shift in metabolic reprogramming towards aerobic glycolysis. It was thought that this metabolic shift to glycolysis alone was sufficient for cancer cells to meet their heightened energy and metabolic demands for proliferation and survival. Recent studies, however, show that cancer cells rely on glutamine, lipid, and mitochondrial metabolism for energy. Oncogenes and scavenging pathways control many of these metabolic changes, and several metabolic and tumorigenic pathways are post-transcriptionally regulated by microRNA (miRNAs). Genes that are directly or indirectly responsible for energy production in cells are either negatively or positively regulated by miRNAs. Therefore, some miRNAs play an oncogenic role by regulating the metabolic shift that occurs in cancer cells. Additionally, miRNAs can regulate mitochondrial calcium stores and energy metabolism, thus promoting cancer cell survival, cell growth, and metastasis. In the electron transport chain (ETC), miRNAs enhance the activity of apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) and cytochrome c, and these apoptosome proteins are directed towards the ETC rather than to the apoptotic pathway. This review will highlight how miRNAs regulate the enzymes, signaling pathways, and transcription factors of cancer cell metabolism and mitochondrial calcium import/export pathways. The review will also focus on the metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells to promote survival, proliferation, growth, and metastasis with an emphasis on the therapeutic potential of miRNAs for cancer treatment.

Indexed as

cancer metabolismfatty acid oxidationglucose oxidationmiRNApentose-phosphate pathwayTCA

Identifiers

PMID36013278
PMCPMC9410355
OpenAlexW4293679383

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