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Radiosensitivity of Cancer Stem Cells in Lung Cancer Cell Lines
Published on: August 21, 2019
Sugar? No Thank You, Just a Deep Breath of Oxygen for Cancer Stem Cells
Andrea Viale1, Giulio F Draetta1
1Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Abstract:
Tumors are metabolically heterogeneous, and subpopulations of tumorigenic cells have been recently described to rely more on mitochondrial respiration than glycolysis for energy production. In this issue, Sancho et al. (2015) demonstrate that MYC is a master switch regulating metabolic programs in different subpopulations of pancreatic tumor cells.
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