Publication Date:
2016-03-08
Description:
Article HMBG1 is a protein expressed in natural killer cells and is important in immunosurveillance. In this study, the authors show that HMGB1 binds to and inhibits PKM2, resulting in a block in aerobic glycolysis and ultimately cell death. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms10764 Authors: Georg Gdynia, Sven W. Sauer, Jürgen Kopitz, Dominik Fuchs, Katarina Duglova, Thorsten Ruppert, Matthias Miller, Jens Pahl, Adelheid Cerwenka, Markus Enders, Heimo Mairbäurl, Marcin M. Kamiński, Roland Penzel, Christine Zhang, Jonathan C. Fuller, Rebecca C. Wade, Axel Benner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister, Hanswalter Zentgraf, Peter Schirmacher, Wilfried Roth
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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