Functional Specialization in Proline Biosynthesis of Melanoma
Jessica De Ingeniis, Boris Ratnikov, Adam Richardson, David A. Scott, Pedro Aza-Blanc, Surya K. De, Marat Kazanov, Maurizio Pellecchia, Ze'ev Ronai, Andrei L. Osterman, Jeffrey W. Smith
My research focuses on human tumor metabolism with the dual goals of therapeutic discovery and technology development. We apply stable isotope-based metabolic tracer methods which allow us to determine metabolic fluxes in human cells, along with other techniques. The understanding gained from these experiments allows us to identify potential anti-tumor targets that we then confirm using a combination of molecular and chemical biology approaches.