Association of Long-Term Dynamics in Circulating Testosterone with Serum PSA in Prostate Cancer-Free Men with Initial-PSA &lt; 4 ng/mL

Wang, Kai; Chen, Xinguang; Cheng, Ting‐Yuan David; Qiu, Peihua; Bird, Victoria Y.; Prosperi, Mattia

doi:10.1007/s12672-019-00369-y

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“…Moreover, alteration at the levels of such a complex metabolism might also be exploited in order to develop biomarker for prediction or monitoring of the progression of the disease [ 77 , 143 , 144 ], as it is happening in the context of other types of cancer [ 145 , 146 ].…”

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Serine and one-carbon metabolisms bring new therapeutic venues in prostate cancer

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Serine and one-carbon unit metabolisms are essential biochemical pathways implicated in fundamental cellular functions such as proliferation, biosynthesis of important anabolic precursors and in general for the availability of methyl groups. These two distinct but interacting pathways are now becoming crucial in cancer, the de novo cytosolic serine pathway and the mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism. Apart from their role in physiological conditions, such as epithelial proliferation, the serine metabolism alterations are associated to several highly neoplastic proliferative pathologies. Accordingly, prostate cancer shows a deep rearrangement of its metabolism, driven by the dependency from the androgenic stimulus. Several new experimental evidence describes the role of a few of the enzymes involved in the serine metabolism in prostate cancer pathogenesis. The aim of this study is to analyze gene and protein expression data publicly available from large cancer specimens dataset, in order to further dissect the potential role of the abovementioned metabolism in the complex reshaping of the anabolic environment in this kind of neoplasm. The data suggest a potential role as biomarkers as well as in cancer therapy for the genes (and enzymes) belonging to the one-carbon metabolism in the context of prostatic cancer.

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