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Mechanism
that makes tumor cells sugar addicted discovered
Mechanism
that makes tumor cells sugar addicted discovered
Date:
April 4,
2014
Source:
IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical
Research Institute
Summary:
Cancer cells feel a special appetite for a type of
sugar called glucose, research demonstrated nearly a hundred years ago. The
tumor uses glucose like a sports car uses gasoline -- it depends on it to burn
faster, to grow and to multiply rapidly. In cancer cells, glucose
superaccelerates cell division in what is known as the Warburg effect. New
research shows that in one in four human tumors, there is an excess of glucose
receptors in the external face of the cell membrane and this protein acts as a
magnet attracting all the glucose from the bloodstream.
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For almost a
hundred years ago is known that cancer cells feel a special appetite for a type
of sugar called glucose. The tumor uses this molecule is like the gasoline
which depends a sports car to burn faster and grows and multiplies rapidly. It
is a little cash process from the energy point of view but allows a
superaccelerated cancer cell division. It is what is known as the Warburg
effect, which was described in 1927.
Until now
little was known about how healthy cells that have a balanced energy
consumption depend on this "fast food" calorie in the tumor cell.
Today, an article published in Nature Communications led by Manel
Esteller, Director of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology, Bellvitge Biomedical
Research Institute (IDIBELL), ICREA researcher and Professor of Genetics at the
University of Barcelona, provides an important
clue to understand this process. Research
shows that in one in four human tumors, there is an excess of glucose receptors
in the external face of the cell membrane and this protein acts as a magnet
attracting all the glucose from the bloodstream.
"We
were looking for genes that did not work in tumor cells and we found an altered
one, but unaware what his function. we discovered that it was responsible for
removing excess of glucose receptors" explained Esteller . "So what
happens is that the gene that should degrade glucose receptor is inactivated in
sound condition and quit, this tumor has an overactivation of this receptor
that captures all the glucose molecules around it and used to obtain quick
energy to proliferate. It is a cancer that has become addicted to this caloric
molecule. "
Story
Source:
The above
story is based on materials provided by IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute. Note:
Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal
Reference:
- Paula Lopez-Serra, Miguel Marcilla, Alberto Villanueva, Antonio Ramos-Fernandez, Anna Palau, LucÃa Leal, Jessica E. Wahi, Fernando Setien-Baranda, Karolina Szczesna, Catia Moutinho, Anna Martinez-Cardus, Holger Heyn, Juan Sandoval, Sara Puertas, August Vidal, Xavier Sanjuan, Eva Martinez-Balibrea, Francesc Viñals, Jose C. Perales, Jesper B. Bramsem, Torben F. Ørntoft, Claus L. Andersen, Josep Tabernero, Ultan McDermott, Matthew B. Boxer, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Juan Pablo Albar, Manel Esteller. A DERL3-associated defect in the degradation of SLC2A1 mediates the Warburg effect. Nature Communications, 2014; 5 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4608
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IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical
Research Institute. "Mechanism that makes tumor cells sugar addicted
discovered." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 April 2014.
<www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140404092937.htm>.