Anna E. Word

ORCID: 0000-0002-6088-1781
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  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2017-2020

Abstract Although metastasis is the most common cause of cancer deaths, metastasis-intrinsic dependencies remain largely uncharacterized. We previously reported that metastatic pancreatic cancers were dependent on glucose-metabolizing enzyme phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (PGD). Surprisingly, PGD catalysis was constitutively elevated without activating mutations, suggesting a non-genetic basis for enhanced activity. Here we report metabolic adaptation stably activates to reprogram chromatin....

10.1038/s41467-020-17839-5 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2020-08-13
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