Glycine decarboxylase cleaves a "malignant" metabolic path to promote tumor initiation

Cancer Cell
John E DominyPere Puigserver

Abstract

Tumor-initiating cells (TICs) are thought to be critical for promoting tumorigenesis. In a recent Cell article, Zhang and colleagues found that non-small cell lung cancer TICs overexpress the metabolic enzyme glycine decarboxylase, which leads to increases in pyrimidine synthesis and is critical for proliferation and tumor initiation.

References

Jan 1, 1990·Advances in Enzyme Regulation·K Snell, D A Fell
Jan 11, 2012·Oncogene·L M R FerreiraJ E Dumont

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