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ReviewGenes & development2026

Metabolic permissiveness: how tissue context shapes cancer.

Chrysanthi Moschandrea, Christian Frezza

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Review in Genes & development, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The Dynamic Alliance of p53 and Metabolism in the Tumor Microenvironment Shapes Tumor Evolution.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chrysanthi MoschandreaFaculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute for Metabolomics in Ageing, Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0770-5786
Christian FrezzaFaculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute for Metabolomics in Ageing, Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; christian.frezza@uni-koeln.de.ORCID 0000-0002-3293-7397

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An emerging paradox in cancer metabolism is that identical oncogenic mutations produce profoundly different metabolic phenotypes depending on tissue context, with many mutations exhibiting striking tissue-restricted distributions. Here we introduce metabolic permissiveness as the inherent capacity of a tissue to tolerate, adapt to, or exploit metabolic disruptions, providing a unifying framework for explaining this selectivity. We examine tissue-specific metabolic rewiring driven by canonical oncogenes (MYC and KRAS), tumor suppressors (p53, PTEN, and LKB1), and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes (FH, SDH, and IDH), demonstrating that baseline metabolic architecture, nutrient microenvironment, redox buffering, and compensatory pathways determine whether mutations confer a selective advantage or metabolic crisis. We further discuss how the tumor microenvironment shapes metabolic adaptation and therapeutic vulnerability. This framework reveals shared principles of tissue-specific metabolic vulnerability in cancer and provides a mechanistic basis for precision metabolic therapies.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsAnimalsCitric Acid CycleHumansMetabolic ReprogrammingMutationOncogenesOrgan SpecificityTumor Microenvironmentcancermetabolismpermissiveness

Identifiers

PMID41663272
PMCPMC12951767

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