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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Amanda Petrina Scotá Ferreira in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The versatile use of the amino acid glutamine by cells, especially for the purposes of biosynthetic activities, makes it the one of the most consumed extracellular nutrients by tumors. In normal differentiated cells, the first step in its metabolism, i.e., conversion of glutamine to glutamate plus an ammonium ion, is performed mainly by three mitochondrial glutaminase isozymes: the Kidney…
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