Glutamine and the tumor microenvironment

Glutamine fuels a vicious cycle of autophagy in the tumor stroma and oxidative mitochondrial metabolism in epithelial cancer cells

(2012) Ying-Hui Ko et al.   CANCER BIOLOGY & THERAPY

Adipocytes promote ovarian cancer metastasis and provide energy for rapid tumor growth

(2011) Kristin M Nieman et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

The autophagic tumor stroma model of cancer or “battery-operated tumor growth”

(2010) Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outschoorn et al.   CELL CYCLE

Ammonia Derived from Glutaminolysis Is a Diffusible Regulator of Autophagy

(2010) C. H. Eng et al.   Science Signaling

Q's next: the diverse functions of glutamine in metabolism, cell biology and cancer

(2009) R J DeBerardinis et al.   ONCOGENE

Understanding the Warburg Effect: The Metabolic Requirements of Cell Proliferation

(2009) M. G. Vander Heiden et al.   SCIENCE