Display options
Share it on

Front Oncol. 2019 Jun 19;9:522. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00522. eCollection 2019.

Potential Use of Gluconate in Cancer Therapy.

Frontiers in oncology

Maria E Mycielska, Markus T J Mohr, Katharina Schmidt, Konstantin Drexler, Petra Rümmele, Sebastian Haferkamp, Hans J Schlitt, Andreas Gaumann, Jerzy Adamski, Edward K Geissler, Anand, Fosso, Gnanzou

Affiliations

  1. Section of Experimental Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
  2. Metempyrosis-Data Analysis in Medicine and Information Technology, Regensburg, Germany.
  3. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
  4. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
  5. Institute of Pathology Kaufbeuren-Ravensburg, Kaufbeuren, Germany.
  6. Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  7. Lehrstuhl Für Experimentelle Genetik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
  8. Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

PMID: 31275855 PMCID: PMC6593216 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00522

Abstract

We have recently discovered that cancer cells take up extracellular citrate through plasma membrane citrate transporter (pmCiC) and advantageously use citrate for their metabolism. Citrate uptake can be blocked with gluconate and this results in decreased tumor growth and altered metabolic characteristics of tumor tissue. Interestingly, gluconate, considered to be physiologically neutral, is incidentally used in medicine as a cation carrier, but not as a therapeutically active substance. In this review we discuss the results of our recent research with available literature and suggest that gluconate may be useful in the treatment of cancer.

Keywords: cancer metabolism; citrate; gluconate; metabolic targeting; transporter

References

  1. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2002 Jun;42(3):217-24 - PubMed
  2. Leukemia. 2002 Nov;16(11):2285-91 - PubMed
  3. J Immunol. 2002 Nov 15;169(10):5978-85 - PubMed
  4. Clin Nucl Med. 1992 Nov;17(11):887-93 - PubMed
  5. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Jun 15;10(12 Pt 1):4055-61 - PubMed
  6. Mol Cancer Ther. 2004 Sep;3(9):1049-60 - PubMed
  7. Med Hypotheses. 2005;64(6):1124-6 - PubMed
  8. J Immunol. 2005 Nov 15;175(10):7003-8 - PubMed
  9. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(1):G402-8 - PubMed
  10. Recent Pat Anticancer Drug Discov. 2007 Nov;2(3):251-8 - PubMed
  11. Met Based Drugs. 1994;1(1):73-7 - PubMed
  12. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2009 Aug;29(8):451-60 - PubMed
  13. Am J Clin Oncol. 2011 Apr;34(2):173-8 - PubMed
  14. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. 2010 Dec;6(4):270-7 - PubMed
  15. Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011 Aug;55(4):374-410 - PubMed
  16. Am J Clin Oncol. 1990 Apr;13(2):119-24 - PubMed
  17. Int J Mol Sci. 2012;13(3):3527-48 - PubMed
  18. Oncotarget. 2013 Apr;4(4):502-30 - PubMed
  19. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2013 Dec;16(4):357-61 - PubMed
  20. BMC Cancer. 2013 Oct 25;13:495 - PubMed
  21. Lancet Oncol. 2014 Jan;15(1):69-77 - PubMed
  22. J Immunother. 2015 Jan;38(1):37-9 - PubMed
  23. PLoS One. 2015 Jan 23;10(1):e0114796 - PubMed
  24. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2016 May;91(2):452-68 - PubMed
  25. Oncologist. 2015 Apr;20(4):366-7 - PubMed
  26. J Clin Invest. 2015 May;125(5):2046-58 - PubMed
  27. Dermatol Surg. 2015 Jun;41(6):667-76 - PubMed
  28. Curr Mol Med. 2015;15(10):884-91 - PubMed
  29. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2016;2016:8413032 - PubMed
  30. Int J Clin Oncol. 2016 Jun;21(3):456-61 - PubMed
  31. Nano Lett. 2016 Apr 13;16(4):2334-40 - PubMed
  32. Prostate. 2016 Sep;76(12):1106-19 - PubMed
  33. J Endod. 2016 Sep;42(9):1307-13 - PubMed
  34. J Proteome Res. 2016 Sep 2;15(9):3158-66 - PubMed
  35. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2016 Dec;13(12):715 - PubMed
  36. J Toxicol Sci. 2016;41(6):783-792 - PubMed
  37. Clin Drug Investig. 2017 Mar;37(3):259-272 - PubMed
  38. J Transl Med. 2017 Jan 31;15(1):21 - PubMed
  39. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2017 Aug 1;313(2):C162-C172 - PubMed
  40. Immunotherapy. 2017 Jun;9(7):531-535 - PubMed
  41. Cancer Res. 2018 May 15;78(10):2513-2523 - PubMed
  42. Pediatr Dermatol. 2018 May;35(3):366-369 - PubMed
  43. Int J Oncol. 2018 Jun;52(6):1947-1958 - PubMed
  44. Transfusion. 2018 Aug;58(8):1992-2002 - PubMed
  45. Oncoimmunology. 2018 Apr 25;7(7):e1448329 - PubMed
  46. J Adv Pract Oncol. 2017 May-Jun;8(4):338-345 - PubMed
  47. Drug Deliv. 2018 Nov;25(1):1595-1606 - PubMed
  48. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2018 Aug 29;31(4): - PubMed
  49. ACS Nano. 2018 Nov 27;12(11):11139-11151 - PubMed
  50. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Nov 1;37(1):266 - PubMed
  51. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2018 Nov 28;17(12):854-855 - PubMed
  52. Iran J Basic Med Sci. 2018 Nov;21(11):1140-1147 - PubMed
  53. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Dec;97(50):e13344 - PubMed
  54. J Immunol Res. 2018 Dec 6;2018:6872621 - PubMed
  55. Radioisotopes. 1979 Feb;28(2):84-8 - PubMed
  56. Nouv Presse Med. 1975 Mar 15;4(11):795-7 - PubMed
  57. Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi. 1995 May;17(3):199-201 - PubMed
  58. J Clin Invest. 1995 Mar;95(3):1193-8 - PubMed
  59. Folia Haematol Int Mag Klin Morphol Blutforsch. 1978;105(6):727-32 - PubMed
  60. Nucl Med Biol. 1994 Feb;21(2):143-9 - PubMed

Publication Types