{"entity":{"id":"paper-glunde-nat-rev-cancer","kind":"paper","name":"Choline metabolism in malignant transformation","aka":[],"tldr":"Paper cited by one pathway page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 22089420 and published in Nature Reviews Cancer; the citing page links this DOI, which is how the record was matched.","summary":"Abnormal choline metabolism is emerging as a metabolic hallmark that is associated with oncogenesis and tumour progression. Following transformation, the modulation of enzymes that control anabolic and catabolic pathways causes increased levels of choline-containing precursors and breakdown products of membrane phospholipids. These increased levels are associated with proliferation, and recent studies emphasize the complex reciprocal interactions between oncogenic signalling and choline metabolism. Because choline-containing compounds are detected by non-invasive magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), increased levels of these compounds provide a non-invasive biomarker of transformation, staging and response to therapy. Furthermore, enzymes of choline metabolism, such as choline kinase, present novel targets for image-guided cancer therapy.\n\nIndexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 22089420 (DOI 10.1038/nrc3162). Matched by DOI alone: one pathway page cites this DOI among its external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.","asOf":"2026-09-22","links":[{"label":"Nat Rev Cancer 2011","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3162"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22089420/"},{"label":"Europe PMC","url":"https://europepmc.org/article/MED/22089420"}],"tags":["europepmc-ingest"],"related":["choline-metabolism-in-cancer"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["nature-reviews-cancer"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Nature Reviews Cancer","year":2011,"doi":"10.1038/nrc3162","pmid":"22089420","authors":"Glunde K, Bhujwalla ZM, Ronen SM","paperType":"review","findings":[],"whatItMeans":"One pathway page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.","caveats":["Matched to the citing OnCo records by DOI alone; the summary reproduces the Europe PMC abstract and no figure has been verified against the full paper."]},"route":"/key-papers/paper-glunde-nat-rev-cancer/","neighbours":{"pathway":[{"id":"choline-metabolism-in-cancer","kind":"pathway","name":"Choline metabolism in cancer","route":"/pathways/choline-metabolism-in-cancer/"}],"journal":[{"id":"nature-reviews-cancer","kind":"journal","name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","route":"/journals/nature-reviews-cancer/"}]}}