ArticleCancers2023
Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC) Cells Rewire Their Metabolism to Overcome Curcumin Antitumoral Effects Opening a Window of Opportunity to Improve Treatment.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Evaluation of Curcumin as a Supplement to Improve Mitotane Effects on Adrenocortical Carcinoma.Cells · 2026Article
- Citric Acid Cycle Genes and Nutrigenetics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Natural Products in Cancer Prevention and Therapy: Current Challenges and Future Directions.MedComm · 2026Review
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- Dietary Polyphenol Combinations Have a Multifaceted Inhibitory Effect on Metabolic Rewiring and Signaling Pathways in Neuroblastoma.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Defactinib in Combination with Mitotane Can Be an Effective Treatment in Human Adrenocortical Carcinoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- A targetable antioxidant defense mechanism to EZH2 inhibitors enhances tumor cell vulnerability to ferroptosis.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Molecular Subtypes Defined by Cuproptosis-Associated Genes, Prognostic Model Development, and Tumor Immune Microenvironment Characterization in Adrenocortical Carcinoma.Journal of inflammation research · 2024Article
- Phytochemicals Target Multiple Metabolic Pathways in Cancer.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Curcumin Electrochemistry-Antioxidant Activity Assessment, Voltammetric Behavior and Quantitative Determination, Applications as Electrode Modifier.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Curcuminoids as Anticancer Drugs: Pleiotropic Effects, Potential for Metabolic Reprogramming and Prospects for the Future.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
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Abstract
Extensive research suggests that curcumin interferes with multiple cell signaling pathways involved in cancer development and progression. This study aimed to evaluate curcumin effects on adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a rare but very aggressive tumor. Curcumin reduced growth, migration and activated apoptosis in three different ACC cell lines, H295R, SW13, MUC-1. This event was related to a decrease in estrogen-related receptor-α (ERRα) expression and cholesterol synthesis. More importantly, curcumin changed ACC cell metabolism, increasing glycolytic gene expression. However, pyruvate from glycolysis was only minimally used for lactate production and the Krebs cycle (TCA). In fact, lactate dehydrogenase, extracellular acidification rate (ECAR), TCA genes and oxygen consumption rate (OCR) were reduced. We instead found an increase in Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase (GPT), glutamine antiport transporter SLC1A5 and glutaminase (GLS1), supporting a metabolic rewiring toward glutamine metabolism. Targeting this mechanism, curcumin effects were improved. In fact, in a low glutamine-containing medium, the growth inhibitory effects elicited by curcumin were observed at a concentration ineffective in default growth medium. Data from this study prove the efficacy of curcumin against ACC growth and progression and point to the concomitant use of inhibitors for glutamine metabolism to improve its effects.
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