Lipid Metabolism Fuels Cancer's Spread.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.01.016.
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Abstract
The ability to prospectively identify metastasis-initiating cells is essential for developing new anti-metastasis therapeutics. In a recent issue of Nature, Pascual et al. (2017) demonstrate that the fatty acid receptor CD36 marks a subpopulation of cancer cells with unique metastasis-initiating potential, highlighting a key role of lipid metabolism in metastatic colonization.
Medical subject headings
- Lipid Metabolism
- Neoplasms