Beyond bacteria: A fungal metabolite drives liver cancer from within

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   Cell Metabolism indie study

   Beyond bacteria: A fungal metabolite drives liver cancer from within

   Gut bacteria are established drivers of steatotic liver disease and liver cancer—gut fungi, much less so. Zhou et al. show that Rhizopus arrhizus promotes MASLD-associated liver cancer through kynurenic acid, a metabolite that bypasses its own surface receptors to engage the cytoplasmic scaffold…

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