Shutting down the power supply for DNA repair in cancer cells

Marcel A. T. M. van Vugt*

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    Abstract

    Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 (PGAM1) functions in glycolysis. In this issue, Qu et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201607008) show that PGAM1 inactivation leads to nucleotide depletion, which causes defective homologous recombination-mediated DNA repair, suggesting that targeting metabolic enzymes increases cancer cell susceptibility to DNA damaging agents.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)295-297
    Number of pages3
    JournalThe Journal of Cell Biology
    Volume216
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb-2017

    Keywords

    • PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE
    • STRESS
    • DAMAGE
    • G2

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