Cell signalling: Nutrient sensing lost in cancer
Abstract
Cells can sense and respond to fluctuations in nutrient availability. Mutations that disrupt such lines of nutrient communication with the cellular growth machinery seem to contribute to the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1038/498444a
- Bibcode:
- 2013Natur.498..444M