Inducing metabolic catastrophe in cancer cells

Monday, August 31, 2015 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Eliminating HK2 (shown here), which is a key enzyme for glucose metabolism, may be a way to prevent cancer cells from surviving, A study published in The Journal of Cell Biology describes a way to force cancer cells to destroy a key metabolic enzyme they need to survive.

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