Linking metabolic reprogramming to therapy resistance in cancer

Publication date: Available online 5 January 2017
Source:Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer
Author(s): Andrea Morandi, Stefano Indraccolo
Metabolic rearrangements are essential to satisfy the different requirements of cancer cells during tumorigenesis and recent studies have highlighted a role for such metabolic reprogramming in response and adaptation to therapies. However, therapy-resistant experimental models have been described to be either glycolysis-dependent or OXPHOS-addicted. Here we discuss the recent literature on metabolic reprogramming of cancer in therapy resistance with a plausible explanation of the observed differences which collectively indicate that dis-regulated metabolic pathways could be considered a potential therapeutic target in tumors resistant to conventional therapy.



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