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Metabolomic profiling identifies distinct phenotypes for ASS1 positive and negative GBM.
BMC cancer - 8 Feb 2018
Mörén Lina, Perryman Richard, Crook Tim, Langer Julia K, Oneill Kevin, Syed Nelofer, Antti Henrik
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BACKGROUND: Tumour cells have a high demand for arginine. However, a subset of glioblastomas has a defect in the arginine biosynthetic pathway due to epigenetic silencing of the rate limiting enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS1). These tumours are auxotrophic for arginine and susceptible to the arginine degrading enzyme, pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20). Moreover, ASS1 deficient GBM have a worse...
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