As illustrated in the heatmaps, pyrimidine metabolic rate–limiting enzymes CAD, CTPS, CTPS2, DHODH, DTYMK, NT5C3, RRM1, RRM2, TK2, TYMS, UCK2, and UCKL1 were highly expressed in tumor tissues (Fig. 11). Here, CTPS1 is linked to neoplasm.