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Table 3 Biological pathways with increased glutamine or glutamate influx across 11 types of cancer

From: Systematic analyses of glutamine and glutamate metabolisms across different cancer types

Pathway

Substrate → product

Cancer type(s)

Purine/pyrimidine metabolisms

Glutamine → nucleotides

BRCA, KIRC

Biomass production

Glutamine → biomass

PRAD, THCA

UDP-GlcNAc metabolism

Glutamine → UDP-GlcNAc

BRCA, PRAD

Asparagine metabolism

Glutamine → asparagine

BLCA, LUAD

Proline metabolism

Glutamine → proline

PRAD

Serine metabolism

Glutamate → serine

BLCA

GSH metabolism

Glutamate → GSH

BRCA, KICH, LUAD

  1. UDP-GlcNAc, uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine; GSH, glutathione