Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Compensatory metabolic networks in pancreatic cancers upon perturbation of glutamine metabolism

  • Douglas E. Biancur,
  • Joao A. Paulo,
  • Beata Małachowska,
  • Maria Quiles Del Rey,
  • Cristovão M. Sousa,
  • Xiaoxu Wang,
  • Albert S. W. Sohn,
  • Gerald C. Chu,
  • Steven P. Gygi,
  • J. Wade Harper,
  • Wojciech Fendler,
  • Joseph D. Mancias,
  • Alec C. Kimmelman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15965
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Glutaminase inhibition (GLSi) has promising activity against certain cancers. Here, the authors show that GLSi has no effect on multiple mouse models of pancreatic cancer and characterize the metabolic pathways activated in response to GLSi whose concomitant inhibition may have therapeutic utility.