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  • The GSK3 Signaling Axis Regulates Adaptive Glutamine Metabolism in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

The GSK3 Signaling Axis Regulates Adaptive Glutamine Metabolism in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Cancer cell (2018-05-16)
Milica Momcilovic, Sean T Bailey, Jason T Lee, Michael C Fishbein, Daniel Braas, James Go, Thomas G Graeber, Francesco Parlati, Susan Demo, Rui Li, Tonya C Walser, Michael Gricowski, Robert Shuman, Julio Ibarra, Deborah Fridman, Michael E Phelps, Karam Badran, Maie St John, Nicholas M Bernthal, Noah Federman, Jane Yanagawa, Steven M Dubinett, Saman Sadeghi, Heather R Christofk, David B Shackelford
ABSTRACT

Altered metabolism is a hallmark of cancer growth, forming the conceptual basis for development of metabolic therapies as cancer treatments. We performed in vivo metabolic profiling and molecular analysis of lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to identify metabolic nodes for therapeutic targeting. Lung SCCs adapt to chronic mTOR inhibition and suppression of glycolysis through the GSK3α/β signaling pathway, which upregulates glutaminolysis. Phospho-GSK3α/β protein levels are predictive of response to single-therapy mTOR inhibition while combinatorial treatment with the glutaminase inhibitor CB-839 effectively overcomes therapy resistance. In addition, we identified a conserved metabolic signature in a broad spectrum of hypermetabolic human tumors that may be predictive of patient outcome and response to combined metabolic therapies targeting mTOR and glutaminase.

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