Creatine promotes metastatic dissemination.

Lagarde, Damien; Kazak, Lawrence · Cell Metab · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The molecular regulation of cancer metastasis is not fully understood. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Zhang et al. (2021) discover that creatine promotes cancer metastasis in mice by promoting activation of the MPS1-Smad2/3 axis.

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