Control of cell growth and survival by enzymes of the fatty acid synthesis pathway in HCT-116 colon cancer cells

Y Zhan, N Ginanni, MR Tota, M Wu, NW Bays… - Clinical Cancer …, 2008 - AACR
Purpose: For many tumor cells, de novo lipogenesis is a requirement for growth and
survival. A considerable body of work suggests that inhibition of this pathway may be a …

Fatty acid CoA ligase 4 is up-regulated in colon adenocarcinoma

Y Cao, KB Dave, TP Doan, SM Prescott - Cancer research, 2001 - AACR
Arachidonic acid metabolism plays an important role in colon carcinogenesis.
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of …

Fatty acid synthase as a potential therapeutic target in cancer

R Flavin, S Peluso, PL Nguyen, M Loda - Future oncology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is a key enzyme involved in neoplastic lipogenesis.
Overexpression of FASN is common in many cancers, and accumulating evidence suggests …

[HTML][HTML] Leucine deprivation inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis of human breast cancer cells via fatty acid synthase

F Xiao, C Wang, H Yin, J Yu, S Chen, J Fang, F Guo - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Substantial studies on fatty acid synthase (FASN) have focused on its role in regulating lipid
metabolism and researchers have a great interest in treating cancer with dietary …

Research progress on FASN and MGLL in the regulation of abnormal lipid metabolism and the relationship between tumor invasion and metastasis

J Zhang, Y Song, Q Shi, L Fu - Frontiers of medicine, 2021 - Springer
Tumorigenesis involves metabolic reprogramming and abnormal lipid metabolism, which is
manifested by increased endogenous fat mobilization, hypertriglyceridemia, and increased …

Inactivation of fatty acid synthase impairs hepatocarcinogenesis driven by AKT in mice and humans

L Li, GM Pilo, X Li, A Cigliano, G Latte, LI Che… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Cumulating evidence underlines the crucial role of aberrant lipogenesis
in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we investigated the oncogenic potential of …

Enhancing cancer‐associated fibroblast fatty acid catabolism within a metabolically challenging tumor microenvironment drives colon cancer peritoneal metastasis

S Peng, D Chen, J Cai, Z Yuan, B Huang… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most cancer‐related deaths result from the progressive growth of metastases. Patients with
peritoneal metastatic (PM) colorectal cancer have reduced overall survival. Currently, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian cancer-intrinsic fatty acid synthase prevents anti-tumor immunity by disrupting tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells

L Jiang, X Fang, H Wang, D Li, X Wang - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Fatty acid synthase (FASN), the key metabolic enzyme of de novo lipogenesis, provides
proliferative and metastatic capacity directly to cancer cells have been described. However …

Lipid desaturation–the next step in targeting lipogenesis in cancer?

B Peck, A Schulze - The FEBS journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Metabolic reprogramming is a central feature of transformed cells. Cancer metabolism is
now fully back in the focus of cancer research, as the interactions between oncogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Involvement of fatty acid-CoA ligase 4 in hepatocellular carcinoma growth: roles of cyclic AMP and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase

YC Liang, CH Wu, JS Chu, CK Wang… - World journal of …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AIM: Fatty acid-CoA ligase 4 (FACL4) is an arachidonate-preferring enzyme which has been
shown to be up-regulated in human colon cancer tissues and implicated in the colon …