Serine one-carbon catabolism with formate overflow

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Meiser, Johannes ^a   Tumanov, Sergey ^a,b   Maddocks, Oliver ^b   Labuschagne, Christiaan Fred ^a   Athineos, Dimitris ^a   Van Den Broek, Niels ^a   Mackay, Gillian M ^a   Gottlieb, Eyal ^a   Blyth, Karen ^a   Vousden, Karen ^a   Kamphorst, Jurre J ^a,b   Vazquez, Alexei ^a  

^a BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; FIBROBLASTS; MAMMALS; METABOLISM;

CANCER CELLS; CARBON METABOLISM; COMPLEX I; GENOME-SCALE MODEL; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX; ONE-CARBON UNITS; SYNTHETASES;

AMINO ACIDS;

EID: 85041012891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601273     Document Type: Article

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