Modèles alternatifs (5) Crassostrea gigas, une huître au service de la recherche sur le cancer

Translated title of the contribution: The oyster Crassostrea gigas, a new model against cancer

Charlotte Corporeau, Arnaud Huvet, Vianney Pichereau, Lizenn Delisle, Claudie Quéré, Christine Dubreuil, Sébastien Artigaud, Catherine Brenner, Monique Meyenberg Cunha-De Padua, Nathalie Mazure

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    Abstract

    The Warburg effect is one of the hallmarks of cancer cells in humans. It is a true metabolic reprogramming to aerobic glycolysis, allowing cancer cells to meet their particular energy needs for growth, proliferation, and resistance to apoptosis, depending on the microenvironment they encounter within the tumor. We have recently discovered that the Crassostrea gigas oyster can naturally reprogram its metabolism to the Warburg effect. Thus, the oyster becomes a new invertebrate model useful for cancer research. Due to its lifestyle, the oyster C. gigas has special abilities to adapt its metabolism to the extreme changes in the environment in which it is located. The oyster C. gigas is therefore a model of interest to study how the environment can control the Warburg effect under conditions that could not be explored in vertebrate model species.

    Translated title of the contributionThe oyster Crassostrea gigas, a new model against cancer
    Original languageFrench
    Pages (from-to)463-466
    Number of pages4
    JournalMedecine/Sciences
    Volume35
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

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