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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Proposed model of mechanically regulated glycolysis. At left, the cytoskeleton architecture in normal cells responds to mechanical cues to modulate glycolysis. In right image, maintenance of the cytoskeleton architecture in cancer cells decoupled from mechanical cues results in preserved glycolysis.

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