Published August 28, 2021 | Version v1
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Protein networks linking Warburg and reverse Warburg effects to cancer cell metabolism

  • 1. Ain shams university, Egypt
  • 2. Qasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
  • 3. Faculty of Pharmacy, Delta University, Egypt
  • 4. National Cancer Institute, Egypt
  • 5. Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt
  • 6. Qasr Alainy Faculty of Meidicne, Egypt
  • 7. Emeritus, Yale University, USA

Description

It was 80 years after the Otto Warburg discovery of aerobic glycolysis, a major hallmark in the understanding of cancer. The Warburg effect is the preference of cancer cell for glycolysis that produces lactate even when sufficient oxygen is provided. “reverse Warburg effect” refers to the interstitial tissue communications with adjacent epithelium, that in the process of carcinogenesis, is needed to be explored. Among these cell–cell communications, the contact between epithelial cells; between epithelial cells and matrix; and between fibroblasts and inflammatory cells in the underlying matrix. Cancer involves dysregulation of Warburg and reverse Warburg cellular metabolic pathways. How these gene and protein-based regulatory mechanisms have functioned has been the basis for this review. The importance of the Warburg in oxidative phosphorylation suppression, with increased glycolysis in cancer growth and proliferation is emphasized. Studies that are directed at pathways that would be expected to shift cell metabolism to an increased oxidation and to a decrease in glycolysis are emphasized. Key enzymes required for oxidative phosphorylation, and affect the inhibition of fatty acid metabolism and glutamine dependence are conferred. The findings are of special interest to cancer pharmacotherapy. Studies described in this review are concerned with the effects of therapeutic modalities that are intimately related to the Warburg effect. These interactions described may be helpful as adjuvant therapy in controlling the process of proliferation and metastasis.

Notes

Johar D, Elmehrath AO, Khalil RM, Elberry MH, Zaky S, Shalabi SA, et al. Protein networks linking Warburg and reverse Warburg effects to cancer cell metabolism. BioFactors. 2021;1 –16. https://doi.org/10.1002/biof.176816 JOHAR ET AL.

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