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UC-San Diego: Flipping a Metabolic Switch to Slow Tumor Growth
August 13, 2020
LA JOLLA, California, Aug. 13 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:

The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive that decreases tumor growth, according to a new study by a team of San Diego scientists, who published their findings Aug. 12 in the journal Nature.

By restricting the dietary amino acids serine and glycine, or pharmacologically targeting the serine synthesis enzyme phosphoglycerate de . . .

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