Researchers Uncover Signal That Switches Cells to Cancerous Metabolism
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine report in Nature Communications that an enzyme called MnSOD causes cells, as they become cancerous, to switch from aerobic metabolism -- using oxygen to break down sugars for energy -- to a type of fermentation called glycolysis, which does not require oxygen.