MYCN-driven fatty acid uptake is a metabolic vulnerability in neuroblastoma
oleh: Ling Tao, Mahmoud A. Mohammad, Giorgio Milazzo, Myrthala Moreno-Smith, Tajhal D. Patel, Barry Zorman, Andrew Badachhape, Blanca E. Hernandez, Amber B. Wolf, Zihua Zeng, Jennifer H. Foster, Sara Aloisi, Pavel Sumazin, Youli Zu, John Hicks, Ketan B. Ghaghada, Nagireddy Putluri, Giovanni Perini, Cristian Coarfa, Eveline Barbieri
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01 |
Deskripsi
Half of high-risk neuroblastoma patients have MYCN amplification. Here, the authors show that MYCN induces fatty acid uptake and synthesis to support neuroblastoma and inhibition of a fatty acid transporter impairs tumor progression in preclinical models.