Lipid metabolism offers anticancer treatment by regulating ferroptosis.
Lipid metabolism offers anticancer treatment by regulating ferroptosis.
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脂质代谢通过调节铁死亡提供抗癌治疗。
DOI:
10.1038/s41418-019-0418-2
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
12.4
通讯作者:
Carbone M
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作者:
Carbone M
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying tumour progression is crucial for developing innovative therapies. Initial metabolic changes occur during the process of malignant cell transformation. Subsequently, neoplastic cells adapt their metabolic activities in response to microenvironmental changes occurring throughout cancer progression, from local micro-proliferation to metastasis. Glycolysis, energy production and lipid metabolic adaptation play a crucial role in the interactions that take place between cancer cells and the other cell types present in the microenvironment and between cancer cells and therapeutic drugs. Cancer cell metabolism and the metabolism of the various cell types that form the tumour microenvironment, macrophages, tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts, are all inter-related and thus influence each others activities. Moreover, the local availability of nutrients and oxygen concentration alters the landscape significantly. For example, at lower oxygen pressure, the transcription factor Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 alpha (HIF) is not hydroxylated and degraded in the peroxisome; instead HIF translocates across the nuclear membrane and activates expression of genes that regulated glycolysis, cytotoxicity, transcription, and tumour cell growth. Indeed, while naive or quiescent T cells meet their bioenergetic needs primarily via the highly efficient ATP-producing mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (Kreb’s cycle that produces 34 net molecules of ATP), T-cell activation is characterised by a shift in energy production to the less efficient but much more rapid aerobic glycolysis (Warburg effect) that produces only two molecules of ATP, and that over time leads to T-cell exhaustion, and consequent progressive immunologic dysfunction with reduced T-cell proliferation, cytokine production, and diminished antitumor effector capacity. T-cell exhaustion reduces tumour interaction with T cells (mediated by pMHC/TCR, by LAG3 and by PD-L1/2 and PD-1) and thus the overall ability of immune cells to fight cancer cells. The Tumour Immune Micro-Environment (TIME) is therefore a highly complex network where metabolism plays a crucial although still partially unexplored, role. Abnormal vascular function, mesenchymal stromal and stem cells, immune-competent cells and lipid-mediated energy, can both modulate hypoxia-restricted drug distribution and its pharmacokinetics. Recent advances on the role of ferroptosis and on the role of lipid metabolism in the TIME, including a better understanding of steroyl CoA desaturase (SCD1)[1] has revealed how lipid metabolism in conjunction with the activation of ferroptosis, may suggest a way to develop novel combinatorial therapeutic approaches using SCD1 inhibitors in combination with ferroptosis inducers. Δ9-fatty acyl-CoA desaturase, EC: 1.14. 19.1, also known as Stearoyl-CoA-desaturase, requires electrons from cytochrome b5 (in the reduced form) as well as O2 in order to insert a double bond into saturated fatty acyl-CoA substrates to produce monounsaturated fatty acids from saturated fatty acids, see Fig. 1 a, which in turn are used to produce diacylglycerols, cholesterol esters, wax esters, phospholipids, as well as triglycerides, all major component of cellular membranes. This enzyme, as indicated above and in Fig. 1 a, catalyses the formation of a cis double bond in position delta-9 into fatty acyl-CoA substrates including stearoyl-CoA and palmitoyl-CoA and therefore produces both 16: 1 and 18: 1 unsaturated fatty