Cationic Amino Acid Transporter-1-Mediated Arginine Uptake Is Essential for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cell Proliferation and Viability

Interfering with tumor metabolism by specifically restricting the availability of extracellular nutrients is a rapidly emerging field of cancer research. A variety of tumor entities depend on the uptake of the amino acid arginine since they have lost the ability to synthesize it endogenously, that i...

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Main Authors: Anke Werner, Daniel Pieh, Hakim Echchannaoui, Johanna Rupp, Krishnaraj Rajalingam, Matthias Theobald, Ellen I. Closs, Markus Munder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2019.01268/full