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Deciphering the metabolic roles of the urea-cycle pathway in carcinogenesis for improving diagnosis and therapy

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Project "UreaCa" data sheet

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Coordinator
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE 

Organization address
address: HERZL STREET 234
city: REHOVOT
postcode: 7610001
website: www.weizmann.ac.il

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 Coordinator Country Israel [IL]
 Total cost 2˙000˙000 €
 EC max contribution 2˙000˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2018-COG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2019
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2019-05-01   to  2024-04-30

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1    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE IL (REHOVOT) coordinator 2˙000˙000.00

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 Project objective

Almost 100 years ago, Warburg described a metabolic change in energy flux that occurs during carcinogenesis. Since then, multiple studies have demonstrated how anabolic synthesis of macromolecules can be altered to support cancer cell progression. Yet, the potential effect of altered catabolic degradation of macromolecules on tumour carcinogenesis has been much less studied.

The urea cycle (UC) is the main catabolic pathway by which mammals excrete waste nitrogen. Although the complete UC pathway is liver-specific, most tissues express different combinations of UC enzymes according to the cellular needs. Surprisingly, we find that changes in expression of UC components causing UC dysregulation, (UCD) is a global phenomenon in cancer, metabolically augmenting net nitrogen usage for the synthesis of macromolecules by reducing nitrogen waste. This metabolic alteration is associated with poor patient prognosis. Thus, we hypothesise that UCD provides a major metabolic advantage to multiple aspects of carcinogenesis and as such, leads to specific, identifiable genomic and biochemical signatures, with implications for cancer diagnosis and therapy.

To pursue our hypothesis, we will incorporate state-of-the-art comparative genomic, peptidomic, metabolomic, and molecular approaches to explore this scientific “blind spot” of nitrogen metabolism in carcinogenesis. We will investigate how UCD causally affects carcinogenesis, by characterising tumour-specific functions of UC enzymes (Aim I), correlating tumour phenotypes with systemic biomarkers (Aim II), and testing the treatment efficacy of drug combinations targeting UCD in cancers (Aim III).

Our proposal, strengthened by my training as a physician scientist, harbours considerable potential for translational diagnostic and therapeutic utility of our findings, enabling us to i) identify new diagnostic biomarkers for monitoring cancer initiation and progression and ii) predict and enhance the therapeutic response.

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