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Environment impacts the metabolic dependencies of Ras-driven non-small cell lung cancer

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Davidson, Shawn M., Papagiannakopoulos, Thales, Olenchock, Benjamin A., Heyman, Julia E., Keibler, Mark A., Luengo, Alba, Bauer, Matthew R., Jha, Abhishek K. +12 more·2016·Cell Metabolism

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Cultured cells convert glucose to lactate, and glutamine is the major source of tricarboxylic acid (TCA)-cycle carbon, but whether the same metabolic phenotype is found in tumors is less studied. We infused mice with lung cancers with isotope-labeled glucose or glutamine and compared the fate of these nutrients in tumor and normal tissue. As expected, lung tumors exhibit increased lactate production from glucose. However, glutamine utilization by both lung tumors and normal lung was minimal, with lung tumors showing increased glucose contribution to the TCA cycle relative to normal lung tissue. Deletion of enzymes involved in glucose oxidation demonstrates that glucose carbon contribution to the TCA cycle is required for tumor formation. These data suggest that understanding nutrient utilization by tumors can predict metabolic dependencies of cancers in vivo. Furthermore, these data argue that the in vivo environment is an important determinant of the metabolic phenotype of cancer cells.

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  • Cancer cells metabolised glutamine differently when cultured as monolayers or spheroids or when transplanted as tumours.

    “cancer cells metabolised glutamine differently when they were cultured as monolayers or spheroids [77] or when they were transplanted as tumours [78].”
  • Cell lines derived from resistant lung tumors become sensitive to glutaminase inhibition in vitro, highlighting that environment can contribute to glutaminase sensitivity.

    “Importantly, cell lines derived from resistant lung tumors become sensitive to glutaminase inhibition in vitro, highlighting that environment can be a contributor to glutaminase sensitivity (Davidson et al., 2016).”

    From Targeting Metabolism for Cancer Therapy (2017) · cites this paper as Davidson et al., 2016

  • Glutamine tracing studies have demonstrated that in some tumor tissues glutamine contributes minimally to TCA cycle intermediates, and those cancers can be resistant to glutaminase inhibition.

    “Glutamine tracing studies have demonstrated that in some tumor tissues, glutamine contributes minimally to TCA cycle intermediates, and those cancers can be resistant to glutaminase inhibition (Davidson et al., 2016; Hensley et al., 2016; Marin-Valencia et al., 2012; Sellers et al., 2015; Tardito et al., 2015).”

    From Targeting Metabolism for Cancer Therapy (2017) · cites this paper as Davidson et al., 2016

  • Cancer tissue-of-origin has served as a successful way to select patients for chemotherapies targeting metabolism for decades, and environment can influence the efficacy of drugs targeting DHODH, mitochondrial complex I, and glutaminase.

    “Cancer tissue-of-origin has served as a successful way to select patients for chemotherapies targeting metabolism for decades, and environment can also influence the efficacy of drugs targeting DHODH, mitochondrial complex I, and glutaminase (Davidson et al., 2016; Gui et al., 2016; Marin-Valencia et al., 2012; Sellers et al., 2015; Sykes et al., 2016; Tardito et al., 2015).”

    From Targeting Metabolism for Cancer Therapy (2017) · cites this paper as Davidson et al., 2016

  • Not all KRAS tumors are sensitive to inhibition of glutamine metabolism in vivo.

    “Consistently, not all KRAS tumors are sensitive to inhibition of glutamine metabolism in vivo74,75, indicating that a deeper understanding is required of the context in which KRAS-driven cancers would be most sensitive to agents that target this metabolic pathway.”

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Authors
Davidson, S. M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Olenchock, B. A., Heyman, J. E., Keibler, M. A., Luengo, A., Bauer, M. R., Jha, A. K., O’Brien, J. P., Pierce, K. A., Gui, D. Y., Sullivan, L. B., Wasylenko, T. M., Subbaraj, L., Chin, C. R., Stephanopolous, G., Mott, B. T., Jacks, T., Clish, C. B., & Vander Heiden, M. G.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MIT (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Venue
Cell Metabolism
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-03
Volume
23
Issue
3
Pages
517-528
ISSN
1550-4131 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2264411128
Cited by
737
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 39 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 68 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 106 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 88 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 84 · 2016: 52
FWCI
39.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell Metabolism (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K08HL119355)
  • National Cancer Institute (P30CA1405141, R01CA168653, P30CA014051)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007753, T32GM007287)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer and biochemical research
Keywords
non-small cell lung cancer, cancer metabolism, glucose metabolism, glutamine metabolism, TCA cycle, lactic acid production, tumor microenvironment, glucose oxidation
MeSH terms
Animals, Blood Glucose, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Glucose, Humans, Lung, Lung Neoplasms, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Nude, Mitochondria, Neoplasm Transplantation, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), Pyruvic Acid, Mutation, Missense, Cell Line, Tumor, Mice, 129 Strain, Tumor Microenvironment

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