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國立成功大學  生命科學系

​彭怡禎老師  實驗室
辦公室電話: 06-2757575 ext. 58123
實驗室電話: 06-2757575 ext. 58114 轉 61
email: ipeng@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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研究專長: 

分子代謝醫學、營養代謝與基因調控、癌症生物學

Introduction of Laboratory

          Dr. Peng’s research focuses on targeting lipid and glutamine metabolism to treat obesity and obesity-related diseases, particularly the molecular mechanisms of oncogenic signaling and epigenetic regulation of lipid and glutamine metabolism in adipocytes, hepatocytes and cancer cells. The long term goal is to determine the key enzymes for targeting in cancer metabolism and translation to the clinic.

Research Summary

         Alteration of lipid metabolism has been increasingly recognized as a hallmark of obesity andobesity-related diseases, i.e. cancer. Oncogenic growth signaling upregulates glycolysis, lipogenesis and glutamine metabolism to meet the biosynthetic demands of rapidly proliferating tumor cells.  However, how cancer cells manipulate glucose, lipid and glutamine metabolism is unclear. The metabolic sensor AMPK is stimulated upon fasting, exercise and calorie restriction to augment lipid and glucose metabolism. Oncogenic Myc has been shown to favor the conversion of glucose to lactate and increase the usage of glutamine in cancer cells. Given that metabolic reprogramming is modulated by circadian-, nutritional-, and environmental-driven molecular signals, epigenetic alterations of metabolic gene expression are dynamic and reversible. Recently, we have discovered that Myc functions as an epigenetic regulator to increase the expression of glutamine synthetase. Therefore, we are interested in investigating mechanotransduction (i.e., AMPK and Myc signaling), transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of lipogenesis and glutamine metabolismin in adipocytes, hepatocytes and cancer cells. Our long term goal is to determine the key enzymes for targeting in cancer metabolism and translation to the clinic.

Current research projects include:

1. Study the molecular link between insulin and metformin signaling with cancer metabolism.

2. Investigate the epigenetic regulation of lipid and glutamine metabolism in adipocytes, hepatocytes and cancer cells.

3. Reveal the biological impacts of lipid droplets on cancer proliferation and drug resistance.

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