Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Identification of metabolic vulnerabilities of receptor tyrosine kinases-driven cancer

  • Nan Jin,
  • Aiwei Bi,
  • Xiaojing Lan,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Xiaomin Wang,
  • Yingluo Liu,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Shuai Tang,
  • Hanlin Zeng,
  • Ziqi Chen,
  • Minjia Tan,
  • Jing Ai,
  • Hua Xie,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Dandan Liu,
  • Ruimin Huang,
  • Yue Song,
  • Elaine Lai-Han Leung,
  • Xiaojun Yao,
  • Jian Ding,
  • Meiyu Geng,
  • Shu-Hai Lin,
  • Min Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10427-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cancer subtypes may have distinct metabolic vulnerabilities that can be exploited for therapeutic interventions. Here, the authors show that in lung cancer, genetic activation of distinct oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases results in unique metabolic liabilities and, in particular, EGFR aberrant cancers rely on the serine biosynthetic pathway while FGFR aberrant cancers rely on glycolysis.