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This is due in part to the limited availability of effective treatment options for patients, highlighting a significant need for new targets and approaches. Deregulated metabolism is a hallmark feature of PDA that has gained attention as a promising inroad for therapy. The aspartate transaminases (\n                  <jats:underline>g<\/jats:underline>\n                  lutamate\n                  <jats:underline>o<\/jats:underline>\n                  xaloacetate transaminases, cytosolic GOT1 and mitochondrial GOT2) have several important metabolic functions, including maintaining energy and redox balance and generating aspartate, an essential building block in protein and nucleotide biosynthesis. Previous studies of GOT proteins in preclinical tumor transplant models have yielded conflicting results regarding the requirement of GOT1 and GOT2 for PDA tumor growth. To assess the role of GOT proteins in tumor development and tumor maintenance, we generated conditional knockout mice for\n                  <jats:italic>Got1<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>Got2<\/jats:italic>\n                  and crossed these into pancreas-specific models. Whereas loss of either\n                  <jats:italic>Got<\/jats:italic>\n                  does not impact pancreas development, double\n                  <jats:italic>Got1<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>Got2<\/jats:italic>\n                  knockout results in markedly reduced pancreas size and cellularity without overtly impacting endocrine or exocrine function. In genetically engineered cancer models, single\n                  <jats:italic>Got<\/jats:italic>\n                  loss does not impact lesion formation, tumor size, animal survival, or the composition of the tumor microenvironment. Identical results were also observed in orthotopic allograft mouse models. Together, these findings add to a growing body of work illustrating the adaptability of metabolism in cancer. 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