El-Sahli Sara, Xie Ying, Wang Lisheng, Liu Sheng
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
Cancers (Basel). 2019 Jun 28;11(7):904. doi: 10.3390/cancers11070904.
The Wingless (Wnt)/β-catenin pathway has long been associated with tumorigenesis, tumor plasticity, and tumor-initiating cells called cancer stem cells (CSCs). Wnt signaling has recently been implicated in the metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells. Aberrant Wnt signaling is considered to be a driver of metabolic alterations of glycolysis, glutaminolysis, and lipogenesis, processes essential to the survival of bulk and CSC populations. Over the past decade, the Wnt pathway has also been shown to regulate the tumor microenvironment (TME) and anti-cancer immunity. Wnt ligands released by tumor cells in the TME facilitate the immune evasion of cancer cells and hamper immunotherapy. In this review, we illustrate the role of the canonical Wnt/β-catenin pathway in cancer metabolism and immunity to explore the potential therapeutic approach of targeting Wnt signaling from a metabolic and immunological perspective.
无翅型(Wnt)/β-连环蛋白信号通路长期以来一直与肿瘤发生、肿瘤可塑性以及被称为癌症干细胞(CSCs)的肿瘤起始细胞相关联。Wnt信号最近被认为与癌细胞的代谢重编程有关。异常的Wnt信号被认为是糖酵解、谷氨酰胺分解和脂肪生成等代谢改变的驱动因素,这些过程对于大多数肿瘤细胞和癌症干细胞群体的存活至关重要。在过去十年中,Wnt信号通路还被证明可调节肿瘤微环境(TME)和抗癌免疫。肿瘤微环境中肿瘤细胞释放的Wnt配体促进癌细胞的免疫逃逸并阻碍免疫治疗。在本综述中,我们阐述了经典Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号通路在癌症代谢和免疫中的作用,以从代谢和免疫角度探索靶向Wnt信号的潜在治疗方法。