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Lactate metabolism and protein lactylation in inflammatory and tumor microenvironments
Lactate and lactate-mediated protein lactylation are no longer viewed merely as accompanying phenomena of enhanced glycolysis, hypoxic responses, or tissue acidification. They are now recognized as an important regulatory axis that links local metabolic stress to chromatin regulation and altered protein function. With...
Hua-Qing Lei, Yulin Bai, Jianbo Tang et al.
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