Review
Open access
Sep 2026
Glutamine metabolism and its roles in tumor radiotherapy by regulating DNA damage repair
Background As a conditionally essential amino acid that is required by tumor cells, glutamine serves as a key metabolic hub in tumor cells, functioning both as a carbon source for the tricarboxylic acid cycle and lipid synthesis and as a nitrogen source for amino acid and nucleotide biosynthesis. Cancer cells reprogram...
Yu-Wei Huang, Huan-Huan Wang, Shuang Zhang et al.
· Frontiers in Cell and Develo... · 0 citations