Amino Acids Rather than Glucose Account for the Majority of Cell Mass in Proliferating Mammalian Cells

Developmental Cell

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 540-549

  Hosios, Aaron M ^a   Hecht, Vivian C ^a,b   Danai, Laura V ^a   Johnson, Marc O ^c   Rathmell, Jeffrey C ^c   Steinhauser, Matthew L ^d,e   Manalis, Scott R ^a,b   Vander Heiden, Matthew G ^a,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON; FAT; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CARBON; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS;

EID: 84959280789     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.012     Document Type: Article

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