Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Dietary restriction of cysteine and methionine sensitizes gliomas to ferroptosis and induces alterations in energetic metabolism

  • Pavan S. Upadhyayula,
  • Dominique M. Higgins,
  • Angeliki Mela,
  • Matei Banu,
  • Athanassios Dovas,
  • Fereshteh Zandkarimi,
  • Purvi Patel,
  • Aayushi Mahajan,
  • Nelson Humala,
  • Trang T. T. Nguyen,
  • Kunal R. Chaudhary,
  • Lillian Liao,
  • Michael Argenziano,
  • Tejaswi Sudhakar,
  • Colin P. Sperring,
  • Benjamin L. Shapiro,
  • Eman R. Ahmed,
  • Connor Kinslow,
  • Ling F. Ye,
  • Markus D. Siegelin,
  • Simon Cheng,
  • Rajesh Soni,
  • Jeffrey N. Bruce,
  • Brent R. Stockwell,
  • Peter Canoll

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36630-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Diet intervention is emerging as an option to improve cancer therapy. Here, the authors show that a diet with restrictive cysteine and methionine synergizes with a ferroptosis inducer to increase cell death and survival in glioma preclinical models.