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ReviewMolecular cancer2025

Tumor metabolic regulators: key drivers of metabolic reprogramming and the promising targets in cancer therapy.

Kun Huang, Ying Han, Yihong Chen, Hong Shen, Shan Zeng, Changjing Cai

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Review in Molecular cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kun HuangDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China.
Ying HanDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China.
Yihong ChenDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China.
Hong ShenDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China. hongshen2000@csu.edu.cn.
Shan ZengDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China. zengshan2000@csu.edu.cn.
Changjing CaiDepartment of Oncology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China. vccj07@csu.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82173342the Innovation and Entrepreneurship training program for college students of Central South University S202410533131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic reprogramming within the tumor microenvironment (TME) is a hallmark of cancer and a crucial determinant of tumor progression. Research indicates that various metabolic regulators form a metabolic network in the TME and interact with immune cells, coordinating the tumor immune response. Metabolic dysregulation creates an immunosuppressive TME, impairing the antitumor immune response. In this review, we discuss how metabolic regulators affect the tumor cell and the crosstalk of TME. We also summarize recent clinical trials involving metabolic regulators and the challenges of metabolism-based tumor therapies in clinical translation. In a word, our review distills key regulatory factors and their mechanisms of action from the complex reprogramming of tumor metabolism, identified as tumor metabolic regulators. These regulators provide a theoretical basis and research direction for the development of new strategies and targets in cancer therapy based on tumor metabolic reprogramming.

Indexed as

Metabolic Networks and PathwaysNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCellular ReprogrammingEnergy MetabolismHumansMetabolic ReprogrammingMolecular Targeted TherapyCancer therapyMetabolic regulatorsMetabolic reprogrammingTME

Identifiers

PMID39789606
PMCPMC11716519

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