The opposing impacts of dietary methionine restriction on tumor growth in immunodeficient and immunocompetent mice
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT: Methionine, a sulfur-containing essential amino acid, is a key component of dietary proteins important for protein synthesis, sulfur metabolism, antioxidant defense, and signaling. However, the role of methionine in cancer progression remains inconclusive. On one hand, dietary methionine restriction is known to repress cancer growth and improve cancer therapy in xenografted tumors. On the other hand, methionine is also critical for T cell activation and differentiation, making it a potential tumor suppression nutrient by enhancing T cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity. Here we investigated the interaction between dietary methionine, immune cells, and cancer cells by allografting CT26.WT mouse colon carcinoma cells into immunocompetent Balb/c mice or immunodeficient NSG mice, then analyzed how dietary methionine contents affect their growth. Our results show that dietary methionine restriction suppresses tumor growth in immunodeficient NSG mice but promotes tumor progression in immunocompetentt Balb/c mice.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE165993 | GEO | 2023/06/14
REPOSITORIES: GEO
ACCESS DATA