Previous studies have found that IL-37 significantly promotes glycolysis and OXPHOS levels in MDSCs within the HCC tumor microenvironment to increase ATP production and release, with ATP binding to P2X7R inhibiting the immunosuppressive function of MDSCs (188)
This metabolic shift exhibits remarkable subset-specific features governed by discrete molecular machinery (114)
GLUT1-5 and GLUT12 are functionally in breast cancer cells ( The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is another way of oxidative decomposition of glucose besides glycolysis and TCA cycle, which produces nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), ribose phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) to make cancer cells satisfy their anabolic needs and respond to oxidative stress ( Amino Acid Metabolism Glutamine and its metabolic intermediates such as antioxidants nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), and glutathione (GSH), participate in energy supply, supplement glucose metabolism and help cells resist oxidative stress to uphold proliferation and progression of tumor cells ( c-MYC and RAS , can increase the cancer cell glutamine metabolic activity by upregulating glutamine transporters such as alanine-serine-cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2) and enzymes participating in the conversion of glutamine-to-glutamate, such as glutaminase (GLS)-1 ( c-MYC activates the expression of ASCT2 and GLS-1 under the induction of lactic acid, leading to elevated glutamine uptake and catabolism in cancer cells ( One-carbon metabolism, also known as network of folate utilization reactions, participates in multiple metabolic pathways such as amino acid biosynthesis and degradation, de novo nucleotide biosynthesis, and methylation and reductive metabolism (50)
The present study did not either examine the prognostic impact of blood glutathione
