Transport-exclusion pharmacology to localize lactate dehydrogenase activity within cells

Abstract Background Recent in vitro and in vivo work has shown that lactate provides an important source of carbon for metabolic reactions in cancer cell mitochondria. An interesting question is whether lactate is oxidized by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the cytosol and/or in mitochondria. Since m...

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Main Authors: Xiangfeng Niu, Ying-Jr Chen, Peter A. Crawford, Gary J. Patti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Cancer & Metabolism
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40170-018-0192-5