Hacking hexokinase halts tumor growth
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Hexokinase specificity of some tumor tissue extracts.
The substrate specificity of hexokinase preparations from Ehrlich ascites cells, a spontaneous adenocarcinoma, Jensen sarcoma, and Walker carcinoma was studied with a number of sugars which differed in structure from glucose at one or more carbon atoms used as substrates. A marked variat ion in specificity was found. The preparations from Jensen sarcoma and Ehrlich ascites cells were relatively...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Biology & Therapy
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1538-4047,1555-8576
DOI: 10.4161/cbt.7.7.6536