Metabolic Pathways and Redox Homeostasis in Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

Tumour metabolism is one of the oldest field in cancer biology, dating back to the seminal work of Otto Warburg in the 1920s. Great work in the late 1995–2005 in the hypoxia field, recently awarded by Nobel Prize, paved the way in the understanding how cancer cells adopt their metabolism, survive and even thrive in the conditions of low oxygen and nutrient supply. Metabolic plasticity of cancer cells, by their diversities and opportunities, continues to impress and inspire scientists all around the world in the last two decades. Even more complex and puzzling is the question of cancer redox homeostasis, where e.g., high level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been recognized as both pro-oncogenic (correlating with increased incidence of cancer) and anti-oncogenic (mechanism exploited by many chemotherapeutics and new form of cell death, like ferroptosis). Thus, further comprehensive research, as well as pre-clinical approaches, are required in order to maximally exploit these vulnerability points of the Biology/Physiology of Cancer.

This Special Issue on “Metabolic Pathways and Redox Homeostasis in Cancer” welcomes both original and review articles.

Dr. Jacques Pouyssegur
Dr. Milica VUCETIC
Dr. Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
Guest Editors

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