Many cancer cells generate ATP primarily by glycolysis, an anaerobic pathway, even when O2 is available (this

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Many cancer cells generate ATP primarily by glycolysis, an anaerobic pathway, even when O2 is available (this phenomenon was first noted by Otto Warburg in 1924). Explain how a high flux of carbon through the glycolytic pathway could help support a high rate of growth of the cancer cells.
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Fundamentals of biochemistry Life at the Molecular Level

ISBN: 978-0470547847

4th edition

Authors: Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet, Charlotte W. Pratt

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