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MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 14-23Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-11-0517
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- Department of Neuroscience/Center for Neurovirology
- NIH
- Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service [1T32MH079785]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [T32MH079785] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Oncogenic viruses represent a significant public health burden in light of the multitude of malignancies that result from chronic or spontaneous viral infection and transformation. Although many of the molecular signaling pathways that underlie virus-mediated cellular transformation are known, the impact of these viruses on metabolic signaling and phenotype within proliferating tumor cells is less well understood. Whether the interaction of oncogenic viruses with metabolic signaling pathways involves enhanced glucose uptake and glycolysis (both hallmark features of transformed cells) or dysregulation of molecular pathways that regulate oxidative stress, viruses are adept at facilitating tumor expansion. Through their effects on cell proliferation pathways, such as the PI3K and MAPK pathways, the cell cycle regulatory proteins p53 and ATM, and the cell stress response proteins HIF-1 alpha and AMPK, viruses exert control over critical metabolic signaling cascades. Additionally, oncogenic viruses modulate the tumor metabolomic profile through direct and indirect interactions with glucose transporters, such as GLUT1, and specific glycolytic enzymes, including pyruvate kinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and hexokinase. Through these pathways, oncogenic viruses alter the phenotypic characteristics and energy-use methods of transformed cells; therefore, it may be possible to develop novel antiglycolytic therapies to target these dysregulated pathways in virus-derived malignancies. Mol Cancer Ther; 11(1); 14-23. (C) 2012 AACR.
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