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JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 73-77Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10863-006-9062-x
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lactate; MCT; monocarboxylate transport; glioma; malignant tumors
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 116257, R01 CA116257] Funding Source: Medline
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Metabolic aberrations in the form of altered flux through key metabolic pathways are primary hallmarks of many malignant tumors. Primarily the result of altered isozyme expression, these adaptations enhance the survival and proliferation of the tumor at the expense of surrounding normal tissue. Consequently, they also expose a unique set of targets for tumor destruction while sparing healthy tissues. Despite this fact, development of drugs to directly target such altered metabolic pathways of malignant tumors has been under-investigated until recently. One such target is the ultimate step of glycolysis, which, as expected, presents itself as a metabolic aberration in most malignant tumors. Termed aerobic glycolysis due to abnormal conversion of pyruvic acid to lactic acid even under normoxia, the altered metabolism requires these tumors to rapidly efflux lactic acid to the rnicroenvironment in order to prevent poisoning themselves. Thus, exposed is a prime choke-point to target these highly malignant, frequently chemo- and radio- resistant tumors. This review will focus on current outcomes in targeting lactate efflux in such tumors using glioma as a model, an ongoing project in our laboratory for the past half-decade, as well as supporting evidence from recent studies by others on targeting this tail-end of glycolysis in other tumor models.
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