Reductive Carboxylation May Affect Redox State of Cancer Cells

Abstract

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Endocrinology & Metabolism. Reductive carboxylation was first documented as a means for normal brown fat cells to synthesize lipids and was subsequently implicated as a way for hypoxic cancer cells to synthesize lipid from glutamine to grow.

Keywords

• Reductive Carboxylation
• Cancer Cells