Cancer BiologybioRxiv
Adaptive stimulation of macropinocytosis overcomes aspartate limitation in cancer cells under hypoxia
J. Garcia-Bermudez, S. Prasad, L. Baudrier…·K. Birsoy
The paper identifies GOT2-catalyzed mitochondrial aspartate synthesis as essential for pancreatic tumor cell proliferation under hypoxia, but this dependency is bypassed by hypoxia-induced macropinocytosis.
DOI 10.1038/s42255-022-00583-z