Cell Death and Disease (Feb 2025)

“Friends or foes”: a new perspective of tumour metabolic transcriptional modification

  • Tong Shi,
  • Qishun Geng,
  • Zhaoran Wang,
  • Chaoying Wen,
  • Jiahe Xu,
  • Yi Jiao,
  • Wenya Diao,
  • Jienan Gu,
  • Tingting Deng,
  • Cheng Xiao,
  • Baoyuan Zhong,
  • Jianfeng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-025-07429-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

Read online

Abstract Energy metabolism plays a pivotal role in cancer clinical treatment and has become an important means of clinical diagnosis of tumour progression. However, current research mostly focuses on changes in metabolic products and neglects the deeper mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. This paper proposes a new perspective, establishing a comprehensive network that reveals the interaction between metabolism and transcription, which explores how tumour metabolism affects tumour progression through transcriptional modifications, and provides a novel approach for optimizing tumour treatment strategies. This viewpoint is conducive to overcoming current bottlenecks in treatment and promoting the development of drug combinations and personalized medicine.