Glucose promotes cell growth by suppressing branched-chain amino acid degradation

Hypertrophic cardiomyocytes switch their metabolism from fatty acid oxidation to glucose use, but the functional role of this change is unclear. Here the authors show that high intracellular glucose inhibits the degradation of branched-chain amino acids, which is required for the activation of pro-g...

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Main Authors: Dan Shao, Outi Villet, Zhen Zhang, Sung Won Choi, Jie Yan, Julia Ritterhoff, Haiwei Gu, Danijel Djukovic, Danos Christodoulou, Stephen C. Kolwicz, Daniel Raftery, Rong Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05362-7