The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Cancer Discov. 2013 Sep;3(9):975-7. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-13-0427.
In this issue of Cancer Discovery, Witherspoon and colleagues use an unbiased metabolite profiling approach to study the effects of polyamine depletion by 2-difluoromethylornithine in colon cancer cells. Their surprising findings indicate that it is a decrease in thymidine pools resulting from altered tetrahydrofolate availability rather than decreases in polyamines that produces cytostasis.
在本期《癌症发现》中,Witherspoon 及其同事采用一种无偏的代谢物分析方法,研究了二氟甲基鸟氨酸抑制多胺合成对结肠癌细胞的影响。他们的研究结果令人惊讶,表明细胞生长停滞的原因是由于四氢叶酸供应改变导致胸苷池减少,而不是多胺减少。