Effects of deranged metabolism on epigenetic changes in cancer

Arch Pharm Res. 2015 Mar;38(3):321-37. doi: 10.1007/s12272-015-0561-3. Epub 2015 Jan 29.

Abstract

The concept of epigenetics is now providing the mechanisms by which cells transfer their new environmental-change-induced phenotypes to their daughter cells. However, how extracellular or cytoplasmic environmental cues are connected to the nuclear epigenome remains incompletely understood. Recently emerging evidence suggests that epigenetic changes are correlated with metabolic changes via chromatin remodeling. As many human complex diseases including cancer harbor both epigenetic changes and metabolic dysregulation, understanding the molecular processes linking them has huge implications for disease pathogenesis and therapeutic intervention. In this review, the impacts of metabolic changes on cancer epigenetics are discussed, along with the current knowledge on cancer metabolism and epigenetics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly / genetics*
  • Epigenesis, Genetic*
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / genetics
  • Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Neoplasms / pathology
  • Phenotype