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Tumor malignancy is engaged to prokaryotic homolog toolbox.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Apr 2012
Fernandes Janaina, Guedes Patrícia G, Lage Celso Luiz S, Rodrigues Juliany Cola F, Lage Claudia de Alencar S
Abstract excerpt
Cancer cells display high proliferation rates and survival provided by high glycolysis, chemoresistance and radioresistance, metabolic features that appear to be activated with malignancy, and seemed to have arisen as early in evolution as in unicellular/prokaryotic organisms. Based on these assumptions, we hypothesize that aggressive phenotypes found in malignant cells may be related to acquired unicellular...
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