From Prokaryotes to Cancer: Glutamine Flux in Multicellular Units.
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism(2017)
摘要
Bacteria in nature reside in organized communities, termed biofilms, which are composed of multiple individual cells adhering to each other. Similarly, tumors are a multicellular mass with distinct cellular phenotypes. Both tumors and biofilms are considered to be an active interphase between unicellular and multicellular life states. Because both of these units depend on glutamine for growth and survival, we review here glutamine flux within them as a readout for intra- and inter -commensal metabolism. We suggest that the difference between glutamine fluxes in these cellular communities lies mainly in their global multicellular metabolic organization. Both the differences and similarities described here should be taken into account when considering glutaminetargeting therapeutic approaches.
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biofilm,cancer metabolism,nitrogen flux,glutamine
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