Interplay between sirtuins, MYC and hypoxia-inducible factor in cancer-associated metabolic reprogramming

In the early twentieth century, Otto Heinrich Warburg described an elevated rate of glycolysis occurring in cancer cells, even in the presence of atmospheric oxygen (the Warburg effect). Despite the inefficiency of ATP generation through glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose into lactate provides can...

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Main Authors: Bernadette M. M. Zwaans, David B. Lombard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2014-09-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
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Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/7/9/1023