Metabolic changes promote rejection of oncogenic cells.

Nat Cell Biol

Department of Cell Biology, Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, USA.

Published: April 2017

Dysfunctional cells are eliminated from epithelial monolayers by a process known as cell extrusion to maintain tissue homeostasis. Normal epithelial cells are now shown to induce the extrusion of oncogene-transformed cells by inducing metabolic changes in the oncogene-expressing cells through PDK4-mediated inhibition of PDH and mitochondrial metabolism.

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