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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Cell. 2018 Mar 12;33(3):347–354. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.02.001

Figure 1. Brain metastases are able to use acetate, branched chain amino acids and glutamine as alternative sources of fuel |.

Figure 1

As metastatic cells colonize the brain, they adapt their metabolism to be able to use locally available nutrients—acetate, branched chain amino acids and glutamine—when glucose becomes limiting.