Acid Gradient across Plasma Membrane Can Drive Phosphate Bond Synthesis in Cancer Cells: Acidic Tumor Milieu as a Potential Energy Source

• Gautam Dhar ,

  * E-mail: gdhar99@gmail.com (GD); gchaudhuri@mednet.ucla.edu (GC)

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1740, United States of America

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• Suvajit Sen ,

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1740, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Gautam Chaudhuri

  * E-mail: gdhar99@gmail.com (GD); gchaudhuri@mednet.ucla.edu (GC)

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1740, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1740, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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