Molecular & Cellular Oncology (Jul 2018)

Revisiting glucose metabolism in cancer: lessons from a PKM knock-in model

  • Taku Sato,
  • Mami Morita,
  • Miyuki Nomura,
  • Nobuhiro Tanuma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23723556.2018.1472054
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 4

Abstract

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Isoform selection of pyruvate kinase M (PKM), a glycolytic enzyme, influences fates of glucose-derived carbons in cellular metabolic networks. We recently developed novel mouse lines to study PKM isoform function and identified PKM1 as a potential target in a subset of human lung cancers. This work provides new insight into cancer metabolism.

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