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Determiners of cell fates: the tricarboxylic acid cycle versus the citrate-malate shuttle

  • Dong Guo 1,2 ,
  • Haiyan He 1,2 ,
  • Ying Meng 1,2 ,
  • Shudi Luo 1,2 ,
  • Zhimin Lu , 1,2
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  • 1. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, and Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
  • 2. Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
zhiminlu@zju.edu.cn (Z. Lu)

Accepted date: 14 May 2022

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Dong Guo , Haiyan He , Ying Meng , Shudi Luo , Zhimin Lu . Determiners of cell fates: the tricarboxylic acid cycle versus the citrate-malate shuttle[J]. Protein & Cell, 2023 , 14(3) : 162 -164 . DOI: 10.1093/procel/pwac026

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