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ArticleScience advances2025

Leveraging dysregulated tumor metabolism for targeting anticancer bacteria.

Akeem Santos, Zeneng Wang, Rashmi Bharti, Goutam Dey, Naseer Sangwan, William Baldwin, Ajay Zalavadia, Alex Myers, Olivia G Huffman, Justin D Lathia and 3 more

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Akeem SantosDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-3507-1602
Zeneng WangDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6455-8228
Rashmi BhartiDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7612-7695
Goutam DeyDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8210-3219
Naseer SangwanDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2407-769X
William BaldwinDepartment of Inflammation & Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7271-1827
Ajay ZalavadiaImaging Core, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4468-3865
Alex MyersDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-0895-7894
Olivia G HuffmanDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Justin D LathiaDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3168-7290
Stanley L HazenDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7124-6639
Ofer ReizesDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0075-6871
Mohammed DwidarDepartment of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1366-0393

Funding

TUMOR METABOLISM PROGRAMP30CA043703 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Amar Desai · 1987 to 2026
$142.3M
Project 3: Microbiota generated aryl sulfates and secondary bile acids in cardiometabolic diseaseP01HL147823 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI MICHAEL ANDREW FISCHBACH · 2019 to 2026
$17.0M
Gut Flora Metabolism of Dietary Phosphatidylcholine and CVDR01HL103866 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI HAZEN, STANLEY L · 2010 to 2023
$10.8M
Synthetic biology tools and strategies to streamline the sensing and responding to disease cues in engineered theragnostic bacteria.R35GM156762 · NIGMS · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI Mohammed Dwidar · 2025 to 2026
$805k
Cancer-specific metabolites as cues to engineer and target anti-tumor therapeutic bacteriaR21CA267711 · NCI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI DWIDAR, MOHAMMED · 2022 to 2023
$409k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA043703NCI NIH HHS R21 CA267711NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL147823NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL103866NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM156762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Widespread application of bacterial-based cancer therapy is limited because of the need to increase therapeutic bacteria specificity to the tumor to improve treatment safety and efficacy. Here, we harness the altered tumor metabolism and specifically elevated kynurenine accumulation to target engineered bacteria to the cancer site. We cloned and leveraged kynurenine-responsive transcriptional regulator (KynR) with its cognate promoter in

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Breast NeoplasmsNeoplasmsOvarian NeoplasmsSalmonella entericaAnimalsCell Line, TumorEscherichia coliFemaleHumansKynurenineMiceKynurenine

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PMID40512849
PMCPMC12164975

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