MetaboList – August 2014

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Cancer metabolism
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Akt-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming Regulates Tumor Cell Histone Acetylation
Joyce V. Lee, Alessandro Carrer, Supriya Shah, Nathaniel W. Snyder, Shuanzeng Wei, Sriram Venneti, Andrew J. Worth, Zuo-Fei Yuan, Hee-Woong Lim, Shichong Liu, Ellen Jackson, Nicole M. Aiello, Naomi B. Haas, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Alexander Judkins, Kyoung-Jae Won, Lewis A. Chodosh, Benjamin A. Garcia, Ben Z. Stanger, Michael D. Feldman, Ian A. Blair, Kathryn E. Wellen
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814%2900269-1

Oncogene ablation-resistant pancreatic cancer cells depend on mitochondrial function.
Viale A, Pettazzoni P, Lyssiotis CA, Ying H, Sánchez N, Marchesini M, Carugo A, Green T, Seth S, Giuliani V, Kost-Alimova M, Muller F, Colla S, Nezi L, Genovese G, Deem AK, Kapoor A, Yao W, Brunetto E, Kang Y, Yuan M, Asara JM, Wang YA, Heffernan TP, Kimmelman AC, Wang H, Fleming J, Cantley LC, DePinho RA, Draetta GF.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13611.html

Blocking Lipid Synthesis Overcomes Tumor Regrowth and Metastasis after Antiangiogenic Therapy Withdrawal
Nor Eddine Sounni, Jonathan Cimino, Silvia Blacher, Irina Primac, Alice Truong, Gabriel Mazzucchelli, Alexandra Paye, David Calligaris, Delphine Debois, Pascal De Tullio, Bernard Mari, Edwin De Pauw, Agnes Noel
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814%2900266-6

A Mitochondrial Switch Promotes Tumor Metastasis
Paolo E. Porporato, Valéry L. Payen, Jhudit Pérez-Escuredo, Christophe J. De Saedeleer, Pierre Danhier, Tamara Copetti, Suveera Dhup, Morgane Tardy, Thibaut Vazeille, Caroline Bouzin, Olivier Feron, Carine Michiels, Bernard Gallez, Pierre Sonveaux
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00527-0

Cancer stem cells from epithelial ovarian cancer patients privilege oxidative phosphorylation, and resist glucose deprivation
Anna Pastò, Chiara Bellio, Giorgia Pilotto, Vincenzo Ciminale, Micol Silic-Benussi, Giulia Guzzo, Andrea Rasola, Chiara Frasson, Giorgia Nardo, Elisabetta Zulato, Maria Ornella Nicoletto, Mariangela Manicone, Stefano Indraccolo and Alberto Amadori
http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=oncotarget&page=article&op=view&path[]=2010

Breast cancer stem cells rely on fermentative glycolysis and are sensitive to 2-deoxyglucose treatment
D Ciavardelli, C Rossi, D Barcaroli, S Volpe, A Consalvo, M Zucchelli, A De Cola, E Scavo, R Carollo, D D’Agostino, F Forlì, S D’Aguanno, M Todaro, G Stassi, C Di Ilio, V De Laurenzi and A Urbani
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v5/n7/abs/cddis2014285a.html

Differential Expression of Enzymes Associated with Serine/Glycine Metabolism in Different Breast Cancer Subtypes
Sang Kyum Kim, Woo Hee Jung, Ja Seung Koo
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101004

BRCA1 Induces Major Energetic Metabolism Reprogramming in Breast Cancer Cells
Maud Privat, Nina Radosevic-Robin, Corinne Aubel, Anne Cayre, Frédérique Penault-Llorca, Geoffroy Marceau, Vincent Sapin, Yves-Jean Bignon, Daniel Morvan
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0102438

Glycerol-3-Phosphate Acyltranferase-2 Behaves as a Cancer Testis Gene and Promotes Growth and Tumorigenicity of the Breast Cancer MDA-MB-231 Cell Line
Magali Pellon-Maison, Mauro A. Montanaro, Ezequiel Lacunza, Maria B. Garcia-Fabiani, Mercedes C. Soler-Gerino, Elizabeth R. Cattaneo, Ivana Y. Quiroga, Martin C. Abba, Rosalind A. Coleman, Maria R. Gonzalez-Baro
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0100896

PDK4 Promotes Tumorigenesis Through Activation of CREB-RHEB-mTORC1 Signaling Cascade
Zhibo Liu, Xinxin Chen, Ying Wang, Haiyong Peng, Yanan Wang, Yanling Jing, and Hongbing Zhang
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/08/27/jbc.M114.584821.abstract

Loss of HSulf-1 promotes altered lipid metabolism in ovarian cancer
Roy D, Mondal S, Wang C, He X, Khurana A, Giri S, Hoffmann R, Jung D, Kim SH, Chini EN, Periera JC, Folmes CD, Mariani A, Dowdy SC, Bakkum-Gamez JN, Riska SM, Oberg AL, Karoly ED, Bell LN, Chien J, Shridhar V
http://www.cancerandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/13/abstract

Deletion of the Mitochondrial Chaperone TRAP-1 Uncovers Global Reprogramming of Metabolic Networks
Sofia Lisanti, Michele Tavecchio, Young Chan Chae, Qin Liu, Angela K. Brice, Madhukar L. Thakur, Lucia R. Languino, Dario C. Altieri
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00563-4

GLUT3 is induced during epithelial-mesenchymal transition and promotes tumor cell proliferation in non-small cell lung cancer
Masin M, Vazquez J, Rossi S, Groeneveld S, Samson N, Schwalie PC, Deplancke B, Frawley LE, Gouttenoire J, Moradpour D, Oliver TG, Meylan  E
http://www.cancerandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/11/abstract

Down-regulation of the Antisense Mitochondrial ncRNAs is a Unique Vulnerability of Cancer Cells and a Potential Target for Cancer Therapy
Soledad Vidaurre, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Verónica A. Burzio, Macarena Briones, Claudio Villota, Jaime Villegas, Javiera Echenique, Luciana Oliveira-Cruz, Mariela Araya, Vincenzo Borgna, Teresa Socías, Constanza Lopez, Rodolfo Avila, and Luis O. Burzio
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/08/06/jbc.M114.558841.abstract

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Metabolic enzymes
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Lysine Acetylation Activates 6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase to Promote Tumor Growth
Changliang Shan, Shannon Elf, Quanjiang Ji, Hee-Bum Kang, Lu Zhou, Taro Hitosugi, Lingtao Jin, Ruiting Lin, Liang Zhang, Jae Ho Seo, Jianxin Xie, Meghan Tucker, Ting-Lei Gu, Jessica Sudderth, Lei Jiang, Ralph J. DeBerardinis, Shaoxiong Wu, Yuancheng Li, Hui Mao, Peng R. Chen, Dongsheng Wang, Georgia Zhuo Chen, Sagar Lonial, Martha L. Arellano, Hanna J. Khoury, Fadlo R. Khuri, Benjamin H. Lee, Daniel J. Brat, Keqiang Ye, Titus J. Boggon, Chuan He, Sumin Kang, Jun Fan, Jing Chen
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(14)00528-0

Tyr-301 phosphorylation inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase by blocking substrate binding, and promotes the Warburg effect
Jun Fan, Hee-Bum Kang, Changliang Shan, Shannon Elf, Ruiting Lin, Jianxin Xie, Ting-Lei Gu, Mike Aguiar, Scott Lonning, Tae-Wook Chung, Martha Arellano, Hanna J. Khoury, Dong M. Shin, Fadlo R. Khuri, Titus J. Boggon, Sumin Kang, and Jing Chen
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/08/07/jbc.M114.593970.abstract

Pyruvate Kinase M2 in Blood Circulation Facilitates Tumor Growth by Promoting Angiogenesis
Liangwei Li, Yinwei Zhang, Jingjuan Qiao, Jenny J. Yang, and Zhi-Ren Liu
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/28/jbc.M114.576934.abstract

Quantitative determinants of aerobic glycolysis identify flux through the enzyme GAPDH as a limiting step
Alexander A Shestov, Xiaojing Liu, Zheng Ser, Ahmad A Cluntun, Yin P Hung, Lei Huang, Dongsung Kim, Anne Le, Gary Yellen, John G Albeck, Jason W Locasale
http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e03342

6-Phosphofructo-2-kinase (PFKFB3) promotes cell cycle progression and suppresses apoptosis via Cdk1-mediated phosphorylation of p27
A Yalcin, B F Clem, Y Imbert-Fernandez, S C Ozcan, S Peker, J O’Neal, A C Klarer, A L Clem, S Telang and J Chesney
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v5/n7/abs/cddis2014292a.html

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Nutrient sensing – LKB1/AMPK/mTOR
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Nitrogen Source Activates TOR Complex 1 via Glutamine and Independently of Gtr/Rag
Daniele Stracka, Szymon Jozefczuk, Florian Rudroff, Uwe Sauer, and Michael N. Hall
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/25/jbc.M114.574335.abstract

The TSC Complex Is Required for the Benefits of Dietary Protein Restriction on Stress Resistance In Vivo
Eylul Harputlugil, Christopher Hine, Dorathy Vargas, Lauren Robertson, Brendan D. Manning, James R. Mitchell
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00585-3

Promoter sequences direct cytoplasmic localization and translation of mRNAs during starvation in yeast
Brian M. Zid & Erin K. O’Shea
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13578.html

The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway and O-GlcNAcylation maintain insulin-stimulated PI3K-PKB phosphorylation and tumour cell growth after short-term glucose deprivation (pages 3591–3608)
David R. Jones, Willem-Jan Keune, Karen E. Anderson, Len R. Stephens, Phillip T. Hawkins and Nullin Divecha
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.12879/abstract

The TORC1 inhibitors Nprl2 and Nprl3 mediate an adaptive response to amino-acid starvation in Drosophila
Y Wei and M A Lilly
http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v21/n9/abs/cdd201463a.html

An AMPK-Independent Signaling Pathway Downstream of the LKB1 Tumor Suppressor Controls Snail1 and Metastatic Potential
Jonathan M. Goodwin, Robert U. Svensson, Hua Jane Lou, Monte M. Winslow, Benjamin E. Turk
and Reuben J. Shaw
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(14)00529-2

TAK1-mediated autophagy and fatty acid oxidation prevent hepatosteatosis and tumorigenesis
Sayaka Inokuchi-Shimizu, Eek Joong Park, Yoon Seok Roh, Ling Yang, Bi Zhang, Jingyi Song, Shuang Liang, Michael Pimienta, Koji Taniguchi, Xuefeng Wu, Kinji Asahina, William Lagakos, Mason R. Mackey, Shizuo Akira, Mark H. Ellisman, Dorothy D. Sears, Jerrold M. Olefsky, Michael Karin, David A. Brenner, Ekihiro Seki
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/74068

Hepatic mTORC1 controls locomotor activity, body temperature, and lipid metabolism through FGF21
Marion Cornu, Wolfgang Oppliger, Verena Albert, Aaron M. Robitaille, Francesca Trapani, Luca Quagliata, Tobias Fuhrer, Uwe Sauer, Luigi Terracciano, and Michael N. Hall
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11592.abstract.html?etoc

Recovery from Rapamycin: Drug-insensitive activity of yeast TORC1 supports residual proliferation that dilutes rapamycin among progeny cells
Stephanie K. Evans, Karl E. V. Burgess, and Joseph V. Gray
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/08/07/jbc.M114.589754.abstract

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Ischemia / hypoxia
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Tumorigenicity of hypoxic respiring cancer cells revealed by a hypoxia–cell cycle dual reporter
Anne Le, Zachary E. Stine, Christopher Nguyen, Junaid Afzal, Peng Sun, Max Hamaker, Nicholas M. Siegel, Arvin M. Gouw, Byung-hak Kang, Shu-Han Yu, Rory L. Cochran, Kurt A. Sailor, Hongjun Song, and Chi V. Dang
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/12486.long

Ischemic tolerance modulates TRAIL expression and its receptors and generates a neuroprotected phenotype
G Cantarella, G Pignataro, G Di Benedetto, S Anzilotti, A Vinciguerra, O Cuomo, G F Di Renzo, C Parenti, L Annunziato and R Bernardini
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v5/n7/abs/cddis2014286a.html

Prolyl-4-hydroxylase 2 enhances hypoxia-induced glioblastoma cell death by regulating the gene expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-α
W Sun, W Jelkmann and R Depping
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v5/n7/abs/cddis2014295a.html

Hypoxia-inducible factors and RAB22A mediate formation of microvesicles that stimulate breast cancer invasion and metastasis
Ting Wang, Daniele M. Gilkes, Naoharu Takano, Lisha Xiang, Weibo Luo, Corey J. Bishop, Pallavi Chaturvedi, Jordan J. Green, and Gregg L. Semenza
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/31/E3234.abstract.html?etoc

Cyclin-dependent kinases regulate lysosomal degradation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α to promote cell-cycle progression
Maimon E. Hubbi, Daniele M. Gilkes, Hongxia Hu, Kshitiz, Ishrat Ahmed, and Gregg L. Semenza
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/E3325.abstract.html?etoc

Single-Cell Imaging of Bioenergetic Responses to Neuronal Excitotoxicity and Oxygen and Glucose Deprivation
Niamh M.C. Connolly, Heiko Düssmann, Ujval Anilkumar, Heinrich J. Huber, and Jochen H.M. Prehn
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/31/10192.long

PGC1β Activates an Antiangiogenic Program to Repress Neoangiogenesis in Muscle Ischemia
Vikas Yadav, Antonios Matsakas, Sabina Lorca, Vihang A. Narkar
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00524-5

Inhibition of monocarboxylate transporter-4 depletes stem-like glioblastoma cells and inhibits HIF transcriptional response in a lactate-independent manner
K S Lim, K J Lim, A C Price, B A Orr, C G Eberhart and E E Bar
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v33/n35/abs/onc2013390a.html

Quantifying Metabolic Heterogeneity in Head and Neck Tumors in Real Time: 2-DG Uptake Is Highest in Hypoxic Tumor Regions
Erica C. Nakajima, Charles Laymon, Matthew Oborski, Weizhou Hou, Lin Wang, Jennifer R. Grandis, Robert L. Ferris, James M. Mountz, Bennett Van Houten
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0102452

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Miscellaneous
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Autophagy Is Required for Glucose Homeostasis and Lung Tumor Maintenance
Gizem Karsli-Uzunbas, Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Sandy Price, Xin Teng, Saurabh V Laddha, Sinan Khor, Nada Y. Kalaany, Tyler Jacks, Chang S. Chan, JoshuaD. Rabinowitz, and Eileen White
http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/4/8/914.abstract?etoc

Autophagy Is Critical for Pancreatic Tumor Growth and Progression in Tumors with p53 Alterations
Annan Yang, N.V. Rajeshkumar, Xiaoxu Wang, Shinichi Yabuuchi, Brian M. Alexander, Gerald C. Chu, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Anirban Maitra, and Alec C.Kimmelman
http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/4/8/905.abstract?etoc

Tumor Vessel Normalization by Chloroquine Independent of Autophagy
Hannelore Maes, Anna Kuchnio, Aleksandar Peric, Stijn Moens, Kris Nys, Katrien De Bock, Annelies Quaegebeur, Sandra Schoors, Maria Georgiadou, Jasper Wouters, Stefan Vinckier, Hugo Vankelecom, Marjan Garmyn, Anne-Clémence Vion, Freddy Radtke, Chantal Boulanger, Holger Gerhardt, Elisabetta Dejana, Mieke Dewerchin, Bart Ghesquière, Wim Annaert, Patrizia Agostinis, Peter Carmeliet
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(14)00275-X

Ecdysone and Mediator Change Energy Metabolism to Terminate Proliferation in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells
Catarina C.F. Homem, Victoria Steinmann, Thomas R. Burkard, Alexander Jais, Harald Esterbauer, Juergen A. Knoblich
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00814-9

Glucose availability and glycolytic metabolism dictate glycosphingolipid levels
Morgan Stathem1 Subathra Marimuthu, Julie O’Neal, Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Jason A. Chesney, Levi J. Beverly and Leah J. Siskind
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.24943/abstract

Metabolic Reprogramming towards Aerobic Glycolysis Correlates with Greater Proliferative Ability and Resistance to Metabolic Inhibition in CD8 versus CD4 T Cells
Yilin Cao, Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Andrew N. Macintyre
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0104104

Reconstruction of Insulin Signal Flow from Phosphoproteome and Metabolome Data
Katsuyuki Yugi, Hiroyuki Kubota, Yu Toyoshima, Rei Noguchi, Kentaro Kawata, Yasunori Komori, Shinsuke Uda, Katsuyuki Kunida, Yoko Tomizawa, Yosuke Funato, Hiroaki Miki, Masaki Matsumoto, Keiichi I. Nakayama, Kasumi Kashikura, Keiko Endo, Kazutaka Ikeda, Tomoyoshi Soga, Shinya Kuroda
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00590-7

Hyperpolarized [1-^13C] Glutamate: A Metabolic Imaging Biomarker of IDH1 Mutational Status in Glioma
Myriam M. Chaumeil, Peder E.Z. Larson, Sarah M. Woods, Larry Cai, Pia Eriksson, Aaron E. Robinson, Janine M. Lupo, Daniel B. Vigneron, Sarah J.Nelson, Russell O. Pieper, Joanna J. Phillips, and Sabrina M. Ronen
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/74/16/4247.abstract?etoc

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Reviews
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Post-translational modifications and the Warburg effect
T Hitosugi and J Chen
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v33/n34/full/onc2013406a.html

Nutrient Regulation of Signaling, Transcription, and Cell Physiology by O-GlcNAcylation
Stéphan Hardivillé, Gerald W. Hart
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814%2900322-2

The pentose phosphate pathway and cancer
Krushna C. Patra, Nissim Hay
http://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/fulltext/S0968-0004(14)00106-6

Phospholipase D and the Maintenance of Phosphatidic Acid Levels for Regulation of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)
David A. Foster, Darin Salloum, Deepak Menon, and Maria A. Frias
http://www.jbc.org/content/289/33/22583.abstract.html

Glutamate as chemotactic fuel for diffuse glioma cells: Are they glutamate suckers?
Sanne A.M. van Lith, Anna C. Navis, Kiek Verrijp, Simone P. Niclou, Rolf Bjerkvig, Pieter Wesseling, Bastiaan Tops, Remco Molenaar, Cornelis J.F. van Noorden, William P.J. Leenders
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304419X14000407

The metabolic cooperation between cells in solid cancer tumors
Philippe Icard, Perrine Kafara, Jean-Marc Steyaert, Laurent Schwartz, Hubert Lincet
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304419X14000511

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Previews / highlights
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The cystine/glutamate antiporter: when too much of a good thing goes bad
Kathryn J. Reissner
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/76627

Control of Gluconeogenesis by Metformin: Does Redox Trump Energy Charge?
Joseph A. Bauremail, Morris J. Birnbaum
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814%2900321-0

Cancer metabolism: Lipid addiction
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n8/full/nm.3659.html

c-Myc and AP4: a relay team for metabolic reprogramming of CD8+ T cells
Peer W F Karmaus & Hongbo Chi
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v15/n9/full/ni.2962.html

Tumorigenesis: FBP1 is suppressed in kidney tumours
http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v14/n9/full/nrc3810.html

Cachexia: Running on empty
http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v14/n9/full/nrc3801.html

MetaboList – July 2014

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Metabolism and cancer
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Tracing Compartmentalized NADPH Metabolism in the Cytosol and Mitochondria of Mammalian Cells
Caroline A. Lewis, Seth J. Parker, Brian P. Fiske, Douglas McCloskey, Dan Y. Gui, Courtney R. Green, Natalie I. Vokes, Adam M. Feist, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Christian M. Metallo
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(14)00402-X

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase opposes renal carcinoma progression
Bo Li, Bo Qiu, David S. M. Lee, Zandra E. Walton, Joshua D. Ochocki, Lijoy K. Mathew, Anthony Mancuso, Terence P. F. Gade, Brian Keith, Itzhak Nissim & M. Celeste Simon
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13557.html

Metabolic Reprogramming of Stromal Fibroblasts through p62-mTORC1 Signaling Promotes Inflammation and Tumorigenesis
Tania Valencia, Ji Young Kim, Shadi Abu-Baker, Jorge Moscat-Pardos, Christopher S. Ahn, Miguel Reina-Campos, Angeles Duran, Elias A. Castilla, Christian M. Metallo, Maria T. Diaz-Meco, Jorge Moscat
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(14)00219-0

Functional polarization of tumour-associated macrophages by tumour-derived lactic acid
Oscar R. Colegio, Ngoc-Quynh Chu, Alison L. Szabo, Thach Chu, Anne Marie Rhebergen, Vikram Jairam, Nika Cyrus, Carolyn E. Brokowski, Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, Gillian M. Phillips, Gary W. Cline, Andrew J. Phillips & Ruslan Medzhitov
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13490.html

Intraoperative mass spectrometry mapping of an onco-metabolite to guide brain tumor surgery
Sandro Santagata, Livia S. Eberlin, Isaiah Norton, David Calligaris, Daniel R. Feldman, Jennifer L. Ide, Xiaohui Liu, Joshua S. Wiley, Matthew L. Vestal, Shakti H. Ramkissoon, Daniel A. Orringer, Kristen K. Gill, Ian F. Dunn, Dora Dias-Santagata, Keith L. Ligon, Ferenc A. Jolesz, Alexandra J. Golby, R. Graham Cooks, and Nathalie Y. R. Agar
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/30/11121.abstract.html?etoc

Wnt signaling directs a metabolic program of glycolysis and angiogenesis in colon cancer
Kira T Pate, Chiara Stringari, Stephanie Sprowl‐Tanio, Kehui Wang, Tara TeSlaa, Nate P Hoverter, Miriam M McQuade, Chad Garner, Michelle A Digman, Michael A Teitell, Robert A Edwards, Enrico Gratton, and Marian L Waterman
http://EMBOJ.embopress.org/content/33/13/1454?etoc

Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling Mediated by UCP2 Inhibits Cancer Cell Proliferation and Tumorigenesis
Pauline Esteves, Claire Pecqueur, Céline Ransy, Catherine Esnous, Véronique Lenoir, Frédéric Bouillaud, Anne-Laure Bulteau, Anne Lombès, Carina Prip-Buus, Daniel Ricquier, and Marie-Clotilde Alves-Guerra
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/74/14/3971.abstract.html?etoc

KRAS Mutation Status Is Associated with Enhanced Dependency on Folate Metabolism Pathways in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells
Diarmuid M. Moran, Patricia B. Trusk, Karen Pry, Keren Paz, David Sidransky and Sarah S. Bacus
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/13/6/1611.abstract

Alteration of the lipid profile in lymphomas induced by MYC overexpression
Livia S. Eberlin, Meital Gabay, Alice C. Fan, Arvin M. Gouw, Robert J. Tibshirani, Dean W. Felsher, and Richard N. Zare
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10450.abstract.html?etoc

ATP-Dependent Lon Protease Controls Tumor Bioenergetics by Reprogramming Mitochondrial Activity
Pedro M. Quirós, Yaiza Español, Rebeca Acín-Pérez, Francisco Rodríguez, Clea Bárcena, Kenta Watanabe, Enrique Calvo, Marta Loureiro, M. Soledad Fernández-García, Antonio Fueyo, Jesús Vázquez, José Antonio Enríquez, Carlos López-Otín
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00486-0

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Drugs
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Metformin and phenformin deplete tricarboxylic acid cycle and glycolytic intermediates during cell transformation and NTPs in cancer stem cells
Andreas Janzer, Natalie J. German, Karina N. Gonzalez-Herrera, John M. Asara, Marcia C. Haigis, and Kevin Struhl
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10574.abstract.html?etoc

A High-Throughput Fluorimetric Assay for 2-Hydroxyglutarate Identifies Zaprinast as a Glutaminase Inhibitor
Adnan Elhammali, Joseph E. Ippolito, Lynne Collins, Jan Crowley, Jayne Marasa, and David Piwnica-Worms
http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/4/7/828.abstract.html?etoc

Glycolysis inhibition and its effect in doxorubicin resistance in neuroblastoma
Jonathan F. Bean, Yi-Yong Qiu, Songtao Yu, Sandra Clark, Fei Chu, Mary Beth Madonna
http://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468%2814%2900046-3/abstract

Decoding the dynamics of cellular metabolism and the action of 3-bromopyruvate and 2-deoxyglucose using pulsed stable isotope-resolved metabolomics
Pietzke M, Zasada C, Mudrich S, Kempa S
http://www.cancerandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/9/abstract

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Nutrient sensing / starvation
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Akt Phosphorylation and Regulation of Transketolase Is a Nodal Point for Amino Acid Control of Purine Synthesis
Arindam Saha, Stephen Connelly, Jingjing Jiang, Shunhui Zhuang, Deron T. Amador, Tony Phan, Renate B. Pilz, Gerry R. Boss
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276514004523

Glucose Regulates Mitochondrial Motility via Milton Modification by O-GlcNAc Transferase
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Jonathan C. Trinidad, Xinnan Wang, Dong Kong, Thomas L. Schwarz
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00728-4

Glucose deprivation increases monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1) expression and MCT1-dependent tumor cell migration
C J De Saedeleer, P E Porporato, T Copetti, J Pérez-Escuredo, V L Payen, L Brisson, O Feron and P Sonveaux
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v33/n31/abs/onc2013454a.html

Reciprocal regulation of autophagy and dNTP pools in human cancer cells
Wei Chen, Lisheng Zhang, Keqiang Zhang, Bingsen Zhou, Mei-Ling Kuo, Shuya Hu, Linling Chen, Michelle Tang, Yun-Ru Chen, Lixin Yang, David K Ann and Yun Yen
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/auto.28954

A MEK-Dependent Transcriptional Program Controls Activation of the Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1) Gene During Amino Acid Limitation
Jixiu Shan, Mukundh N. Balasubramanian, William Donelan, Lingchen Fu, Jaclyn Hayner, Maria-Cecilia Lopez, Henry V. Baker, and Michael S. Kilberg
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/15/jbc.M114.565028.abstract

Modeling cancer glycolysis under hypoglycemia, and the role played by the differential expression of glycolytic isoforms
Alvaro Marín-Hernández, Sayra Y. López-Ramírez, Isis Del Mazo-Monsalvo, Juan C. Gallardo-Pérez, Sara Rodríguez-Enríquez, Rafael Moreno-Sánchez and Emma Saavedra
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.12864/abstract?campaign=woletoc

TOR complex 2-Ypk1 signaling is an essential positive regulator of the general amino acid control response and autophagy
Ariadne Vlahakis, Martin Graef, Jodi Nunnari, and Ted Powers
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10586.abstract.html?etoc

MicroRNA-Mediated Regulation of Dp53 in the Drosophila Fat Body Contributes to Metabolic Adaptation to Nutrient Deprivation
Lara Barrio, Andrés Dekanty, Marco Milán
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247%2814%2900489-6

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Hypoxia
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Cancer-associated Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) R132H Mutation and D-2-hydroxyglutarate Stimulate Glutamine Metabolism under Hypoxia
Zachary J. Reitman, Christopher G. Duncan, Ethan Poteet, Ali Winters, Liang-Jun Yan, David M. Gooden, Ivan Spasojevic, Laszlo G. Boros, Shao Hua Yang, and Hai Yan
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/01/jbc.M114.575183.abstract

MDM2 regulates hypoxic HIF1α stability in an E3 ligase proteasome and PTEN-PI-3 kinase-AKT dependent manner
Shweta Joshi, Alok R. Singh, and Donald L. Durden
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/06/30/jbc.M114.587493.abstract

The Oncometabolite Fumarate Promotes Pseudohypoxia Through Noncannonical Activation of NF-κB Signaling
Karthigayan Shanmugasundaram, Bijaya Nayak, Eun-Hee Shim, Carolina B. Livi, Karen Block, and Sunil Sudarshan
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/15/jbc.M114.568162.abstract

Silencing of the DNA Mismatch Repair Gene MLH1 Induced by Hypoxic Stress in a Pathway Dependent on the Histone Demethylase LSD1
Yuhong Lu, Narendra Wajapeyee, Mitchell S. Turker, Peter M. Glazer
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(14)00519-1

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mTOR / AMPK
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Coordinated regulation of protein synthesis and degradation by mTORC1
Yinan Zhang, Justin Nicholatos, John R. Dreier, Stéphane J. H. Ricoult, Scott B. Widenmaier, Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, David J. Kwiatkowski, Brendan D. Manning
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13492.html

Akt-Dependent Activation of mTORC1 Involves Phosphorylation of mTOR by IKKalpha
Han C. Dan, Aaron Ebbs, Manolis Pasparakis, Terry Van Dyke, Daniela S. Basseres, and Albert S. Baldwin
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/02/jbc.M114.554881.abstract

REDD1 enhances protein phosphatase 2A–mediated dephosphorylation of Akt to repress mTORC1 signaling
Michael D. Dennis, Catherine S. Coleman, Arthur Berg, Leonard S. Jefferson, and Scot R. Kimball
http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/7/335/ra68.abstract

5′-AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) Supports the Growth of Aggressive Experimental Human Breast Cancer Tumors
Keith R. Laderoute, Joy M. Calaoagan, Wan-ru Chao, Dominic Dinh, Nicholas Denko, Sarah Duellman, Jessica Kalra, Xiaohe Liu, Ioanna Papandreou, Lidia Sambucetti, and Laszlo G. Boros
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/03/jbc.M114.576371.abstract

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Metabolism and proliferation
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A Nuclear Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Is Important for the Generation of Acetyl-CoA and Histone Acetylation
Gopinath Sutendra, Adam Kinnaird, Peter Dromparis, Roxane Paulin, Trevor H. Stenson, Alois Haromy, Kyoko Hashimoto, Nancy Zhang, Eric Flaim, Evangelos D. Michelakis
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00674-6

PINK1 deficiency sustains cell proliferation by reprogramming glucose metabolism through HIF1
Raquel Requejo-Aguilar, Irene Lopez-Fabuel, Emilio Fernandez, Luis M. Martins, Angeles Almeida and Juan P. Bolaños
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140724/ncomms5514/full/ncomms5514.html

c-Myc programs fatty acid metabolism and dictates acetyl CoA abundance and fate
Lia R. Edmunds, Lokendra Sharma, Audry Kang, Jie Lu, Jerry Vockley, Shrabani Basu, Radha Uppala, Eric S. Goetzman, Megan E. Beck, Donald Scott, and Edward V. Prochownik
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/22/jbc.M114.580662.abstract

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Miscellaneous
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Tumour-derived PTH-related protein triggers adipose tissue browning and cancer cachexia
Serkan Kir, James P. White, Sandra Kleiner, Lawrence Kazak, Paul Cohen, Vickie E. Baracos & Bruce M. Spiegelman
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13528.html

Rag GTPases are cardioprotective by regulating lysosomal function
Young Chul Kim, Hyun Woo Park, Sebastiano Sciarretta, Jung-Soon Mo, Jenna L. Jewell, Ryan C. Russell, Xiaohui Wu, Junichi Sadoshima and Kun-Liang Guan
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140701/ncomms5241/full/ncomms5241.html

PKM2 regulates the Warburg effect and promotes HMGB1 release in sepsis
Liangchun Yang, Min Xie, Minghua Yang, Yan Yu, Shan Zhu, Wen Hou, Rui Kang, Michael T. Lotze, Timothy R. Billiar, Haichao Wang, Lizhi Cao and Daolin Tang
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140714/ncomms5436/full/ncomms5436.html

Memory CD8+ T Cells Use Cell-Intrinsic Lipolysis to Support the Metabolic Programming Necessary for Development
David O’Sullivan, Gerritje J.W. van der Windt, Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang, Jonathan D. Curtis, Chih-Hao Chang, Michael D. Buck, Jing Qiu, Amber M. Smith, Wing Y. Lam, Lisa M. DiPlato, Fong-Fu Hsu, Morris J. Birnbaum, Edward J. Pearce, Erika L. Pearce
http://www.cell.com/immunity/abstract/S1074-7613(14)00224-6

Glucose and Glutamine Metabolism Regulate Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Lineage Specification
Leal Oburoglu, Saverio Tardito, Vanessa Fritz, Ste´phanie C. de Barros,1 Peggy Merida,1 Marco Craveiro,
Joa˜o Mamede, Gaspard Cretenet, Ce´dric Mongellaz, Xiuli An, Dorota Klysz, Jawida Touhami,
Myriam Boyer-Clavel, Jean-Luc Battini, Vale´rie Dardalhon, Vale´rie S. Zimmermann, Narla Mohandas,
Eyal Gottlieb, Marc Sitbon, Sandrina Kinet, and Naomi Taylor
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590914002501

Inhibition of the mitochondrial pyrimidine biosynthesis enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase by doxorubicin and brequinar sensitizes cancer cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis
T He, S Haapa-Paananen, V O Kaminskyy, P Kohonen, V Fey, B Zhivotovsky, O Kallioniemi and M Perälä
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v33/n27/abs/onc2013313a.html

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Reviews
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Defects in mitochondrial metabolism and cancer
Gaude E, Frezza C
http://www.cancerandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/10/abstract

AMPK at the Nexus of Energetics and Aging
Kristopher Burkewitz, Yue Zhang, William B. Mair
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(14)00106-5

Transcriptional regulation of the stress response by mTOR
Jose Aramburu, M. Carmen Ortells, Sonia Tejedor, Maria Buxadé, and Cristina López-Rodríguez
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;7/332/re2

Phospholipase D and the Maintenance of Phosphatidic Acid Levels for Regulation of mTOR
David A Foster, Darin Salloum, Deepak Menon, and Maria Frias
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2014/07/02/jbc.R114.566091.abstract

Targeting Mitochondrial Metabolism by Inhibiting Autophagy in BRAF-DrivenCancers
Anne M. Strohecker and Eileen White
http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/4/7/766.abstract.html?etoc

Keeping the eIF2 alpha kinase Gcn2 in check
Beatriz A. Castilho, Renuka Shanmugam, Richard C. Silva, Rashmi Ramesh, Benjamin M. Himme, Evelyn Sattlegger
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167488914001244

Sirtuins in stress response: guardians of the genome
L Bosch-Presegué and A Vaquero
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v33/n29/full/onc2013344a.html

Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation TRAP(1)ped in tumor cells
Andrea Rasola, Len Neckers, Didier Picard
http://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/abstract/S0962-8924(14)00050-6

Hypoxia, lipids, and cancer: surviving the harsh tumor microenvironment
Daniel Ackerman, M. Celeste Simon
http://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(14)00087-7

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Comments
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Wnt meets Warburg: another piece in the puzzle?
Craig B Thompson
http://EMBOJ.embopress.org/content/33/13/1420?etoc

Localization of NADPH Production: A Wheel within a Wheel
Oliver D.K. Maddocks, Christiaan F. Labuschagne, Karen H. Vousden
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(14)00570-X

Metabolic Asymmetry in Cancer: A “Balancing Act” that Promotes Tumor Growth
Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outschoorn, Federica Sotgia, Michael P. Lisanti
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(14)00271-2

A Mitochondrial Expatriate: Nuclear Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
Vincent C.J. de Boer, Sander M. Houten
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00750-8

Intraoperative mass spectrometry of tumor metabolites
Whitney B. Pope
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/30/10906.extract.html?etoc

Stromal metabolism has paracrine effects
http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v14/n8/full/nrc3794.html

Reduce Tumors with a Low-Carb Diet
http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/7/336/ec203.abstract

FLCN Regulates Metabolic Reprogramming via AMPK Signaling to HIF1α
http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/4/7/OF16.abstract.html?etoc