Background and Aim: Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is a significant global health concern, causing chronic liver disease. miR-122, microRNA abundant in the liver, found to be downregulated various cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). PKM2, variant of Pyruvate Kinase (PK), has been implicated HCC development due its high expression tumor tissues. PKM2 overexpression caus...

The balance between oxidative and nonoxidative glucose metabolism is essential for a number of pathophysiological processes. By deleting enzymes that affect aerobic glycolysis with different potencies, we examine how modulating glucose metabolism specifically affects hematopoietic and leukemic cell populations. We find that a deficiency in the M2 pyruvate kinase isoform (PKM2) reduces the level...

Abnormal glucose metabolism is critical in colorectal cancer (CRC) development. Expression of the pyruvate kinase (PK) M2 isoform, rather than the PKM1 isoform, serves important functions in reprogramming the glucose metabolism of cancer cells. Preferential expression of PKM2 is primarily driven by alternative splicing, which is coordinated by a group of splicing factors including heterogeneous...

Vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase), a hetero-multimeric ATP-driven proton pump has recently emerged as a critical regulator of mTOR-induced amino acid sensing for cell growth. Although dysregulated activity of cell growth regulators is often associated with cancer, the prognostic significance and metabolic roles of V-ATPase in esophageal cancer progression remain unclear. Here, we show that high lev...

Shikonin, a small-molecule natural product which inhibits the activity of pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2), has been studied as an anti-cancer drug candidate in human cancer models. Here, our results demonstrate that shikonin is able to sensitize human breast cancer cells to chemotherapy by paclitaxel (taxol). Human breast adenocarcinoma MBA-MD-231 cells, which have higher levels of PKM2 expression an...

Background: Endometriosis is a painful disorder characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside uterine cavity. Here, we investigated effects cinnamic acid isolated from Chinese medicinal plant Cinnamomum cassia Presl on primary stromal cells. Methods: Immunohistochemistry was used to examine protein expression and cell purity. Quantitative RT-PCR conducted assess mRNA expression, Wes...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect scutellarein on proliferation neuroblastoma cells and underlying mechanism. Six cell lines were used with drug intervention. Cell Counting Kit-8 was select best, namely, SH-SY5Y, then its IC50 value determined. To further mechanism scutellarin affecting SH-SY5Y proliferation, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) detect exp...

Liver cancer is the second cause of death from cancer worldwide, without effective treatment. Traditional chemotherapy for liver cancer has big side effects for patients, whereas targeted drugs, such as sorafenib, commonly have drug resistance. Oroxylin A (OA) is the main bioactive flavonoids of Scutellariae radix, which has strong anti-hepatoma effect but low toxicity to normal tissue. To date...