ReviewLung Cancer (Auckland, N.Z.)2022
Arginine Deprivation in SCLC: Mechanisms and Perspectives for Therapy.
Review in Lung Cancer (Auckland, N.Z.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Molecular mechanisms and therapies for tumor inhibition through the arginine metabolism pathway.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Urea cycle dysregulation: a new frontier in cancer metabolism and immune evasion.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025Review
- A Review of Novel Cancer Therapeutics and Current Research Trends.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2025Review
- Intratumoral heterogeneity and potential treatment strategies in small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Arginine deprivation enriches lung cancer proteomes with cysteine by inducing arginine-to-cysteine substitutants.Molecular cell · 2024Article
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- The Role of the L-Arginine-Nitric Oxide Molecular Pathway in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Cross-omics strategies and personalised options for lung cancer immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Metabolic interventions combined with CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade for the treatment of tumors: mechanisms and strategies.Frontiers of medicine · 2023Review
- Regulated Arginine Metabolism in Immunopathogenesis of a Wide Range of Diseases: Is There a Way to Pass between Scylla and Charybdis?Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Review
- Total coumarins of Pileostegia tomentella induces cell death in SCLC by reprogramming metabolic patterns, possibly through attenuating β-catenin/AMPK/SIRT1.Chinese medicine · 2023Article
- Extracellular arginine is required but the arginine transporter CAT3 (Slc7a3) is dispensable for mouse normal and malignant hematopoiesis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Arginine deprivation has gained increasing traction as a novel and safe antimetabolite strategy for the treatment of several hard-to-treat cancers characterised by a critical dependency on arginine. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) displays marked arginine auxotrophy due to inactivation of the rate-limiting enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1), and as a consequence may be targeted with pegylated arginine deiminase or ADI-PEG20 (pegargiminase) and human recombinant pegylated arginases (rhArgPEG, BCT-100 and pegzilarginase). Although preclinical studies reveal that ASS1-deficient SCLC cell lines are highly sensitive to arginine-degrading enzymes, there is a clear disconnect with the clinic with minimal activity seen to date that may be due in part to patient selection. Recent studies have explored resistance mechanisms to arginine depletion focusing on tumor adaptation, such as ASS1 re-expression and autophagy, stromal cell inputs including macrophage infiltration, and tumor heterogeneity. Here, we explore how arginine deprivation may be combined strategically with novel agents to improve SCLC management by modulating resistance and increasing the efficacy of existing agents. Moreover, recent work has identified an intriguing role for targeting arginine in combination with PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors and clinical trials are in progress. Thus, future studies of arginine-depleting agents with chemoimmunotherapy, the current standard of care for SCLC, may lead to enhanced disease control and much needed improvements in long-term survival for patients.
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