MYCN-driven fatty acid uptake is a metabolic vulnerability in neuroblastoma

Autor: 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
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31331-2
Popis: 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.
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