Sarah‐Maria Fendt

This study identifies mTORC2 as a convergent dependency in lung cancer that stabilizes HIF-1β to drive metabolic adaptation and tumor progression, revealing a therapeutic target in sphingolipid metabolism.

This paper shows that asparagine enables transsulfuration to restore redox balance in tumors lacking aspartate synthesis enzymes, highlighting transsulfuration as a targetable vulnerability.

This study shows that mitochondrial pyruvate import in astrocytes is essential for maintaining neurotransmitter homeostasis and seizure resistance, rather than primarily for bioenergetic purposes.

This study identifies a lipid-mediated signaling pathway driven by microglia that promotes glioblastoma invasion and shows that targeting this pathway can suppress tumor invasion.

This study shows that species-specific fatty acid oxidation rates influence temporal patterning of corticogenesis through protein acetylation dynamics in human and mouse cortical progenitors.

This study shows that loss of UFMylation promotes prostate cancer metastasis by reprogramming glucose metabolism towards hexosamine biosynthesis.

This study shows that methylmalonic acid impairs CD8+ T cell function and promotes tumor growth by inducing metabolic dysfunction and exhaustion.

This study shows that slower mitochondrial development and lower metabolic activity in human cortical neurons compared to mice delay neuronal maturation, and stimulating mitochondria accelerates this process.