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. 2017 Feb 7;25(2):228-230.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.01.016.

Lipid Metabolism Fuels Cancer's Spread

Zhuo Li  1 , Yibin Kang  2
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Lipid Metabolism Fuels Cancer's Spread

Zhuo Li et al. Cell Metab. .
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Abstract

The ability to prospectively identify metastasis-initiating cells is essential for developing new anti-metastasis therapeutics. In a recent issue of Nature, Pascual et al. (2017) demonstrate that the fatty acid receptor CD36 marks a subpopulation of cancer cells with unique metastasis-initiating potential, highlighting a key role of lipid metabolism in metastatic colonization.

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