Serine and Functional Metabolites in Cancer

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 645-657

  Newman, Alice C ^a   Maddocks, Oliver D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; functional metabolites; one carbon metabolism; serine metabolism

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON; NUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; CANCER CELL; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL COMPONENT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL REACTION; FOLATE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SERINE;

EID: 85020450794     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2017.05.001     Document Type: Review

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