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ArticleCell reports2020

Malic Enzyme Couples Mitochondria with Aerobic Glycolysis in Osteoblasts.

Wen-Chih Lee, Xing Ji, Itzhak Nissim, Fanxin Long

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Article in Cell reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

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100citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

100 citing papers in PubMed, 129 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wen-Chih LeeTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopedics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Xing JiTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopedics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Itzhak NissimDivision of Genetics and Metabolism, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Fanxin LongTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopedics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: longf1@email.chop.edu.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

WU INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCESUL1TR002345 · NCATS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI William G. Powderly · 2017 to 2026
$97.8M
Mechanisms of WNT Signaling In BoneR01AR060456 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LONG, FANXIN · 2010 to 2020
$4.0M
CROSSTALK BETWEEN HEDGEHOG AND IGF SIGNALING IN OSTEOPROGENITORSR01DK111212 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LONG, FANXIN · 2017 to 2020
$1.7M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002345NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR060456NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK111212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The metabolic program of osteoblasts, the chief bone-making cells, remains incompletely understood. Here in murine calvarial cells, we establish that osteoblast differentiation under aerobic conditions is coupled with a marked increase in glucose consumption and lactate production but reduced oxygen consumption. As a result, aerobic glycolysis accounts for approximately 80% of the ATP production in mature osteoblasts. In vivo tracing with

Indexed as

Warburg Effect, OncologicAnimalsHumansMalatesMiceMitochondriaOsteoblastsMalatesmalic acidaerobic glycolysisbonedifferentiationmalate-aspartate shuttlemalic enzymemetabolic tracingmetabolismmitochondriaosteoblastTCA cycle

Identifiers

PMID32905773
PMCPMC8183612
OpenAlexW3084130987

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