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Alternative glucose breakdown ensures the survival of cancer cells

by German Cancer Research Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A key enzyme in sugar metabolism is inactivated particularly easily and efficiently by oxidative stress. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now shown that with this oxidation, cells switch to an alternative sugar breakdown pathway and can thus escape oxidative stress. Cancer cells...