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Lucas Pontel

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Group Leader @CarrerasIJC, Barcelona 🧬 How cancer cells survive aldehydes, DNA damage and redox stress. Cancer metabolism · Fanconi anaemia
Barcelona, Spain carrerasresearch.org/en/research/ca… Joined August 2010
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Cells make toxic metabolites every minute they’re alive. How do they survive them?

In our @ScienceAdvances paper, we report that NRF2 coordinates the defences against genotoxic formaldehyde and ferroptosis resistance by regulating SLC7A11 (xCT)👇
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www.science.org NRF2 coordinates cystine import and glutathione use to sustain ferroptosis resistance and formald... Cancer cells must balance detoxification of reactive metabolic by-products while preserving redox homeostasis, but how this trade-off is managed remains unclear. The Kelch-like ECH-associated protein...
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Formaldehyde: a genotoxin today but possibly a creator billions of years ago. Asteroid Bennu sample analysis reveals biologically relevant sugars produced via formaldehyde-driven prebiotic reactions. nature.com/articles/s4156…
www.nature.com Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu Nature Geoscience - Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde,...