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CANCER CELL
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 211-222Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2014.11.019
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- German Research Foundation
- ATTRACT program of the Luxembourg National Research Fund
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26640082] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Controversy over the role of antioxidants in cancer has persisted for decades. Here, we demonstrate that synthesis of the antioxidant glutathione (GSH), driven by GCLM, is required for cancer initiation. Genetic loss of Gclm prevents a tumor's ability to drive malignant transformation. Intriguingly, these findings can be replicated using an inhibitor of GSH synthesis, but only if delivered prior to cancer onset, suggesting that at later stages of tumor progression GSH becomes dispensable potentially due to compensation from alternative antioxidant pathways. Remarkably, combined inhibition of GSH and thioredoxin antioxidant pathways leads to a synergistic cancer cell death in vitro and in vivo, demonstrating the importance of these two antioxidants to tumor progression and as potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
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