Spatiotemporal control of acetyl-CoA metabolism in chromatin regulation

S Sivanand, I Viney, KE Wellen - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
The epigenome is sensitive to the availability of metabolites that serve as substrates of
chromatin-modifying enzymes. Links between acetyl-CoA metabolism, histone acetylation …

The metabolic fate of acetate in cancer

ZT Schug, J Vande Voorde, E Gottlieb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Recent high-profile reports have reignited an interest in acetate metabolism in cancer. Acetyl-
CoA synthetases that catalyse the conversion of acetate to acetyl-CoA have now been …

[HTML][HTML] Amino acids rather than glucose account for the majority of cell mass in proliferating mammalian cells

AM Hosios, VC Hecht, LV Danai, MO Johnson… - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Cells must duplicate their mass in order to proliferate. Glucose and glutamine are the major
nutrients consumed by proliferating mammalian cells, but the extent to which these and …

[HTML][HTML] Acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 promotes acetate utilization and maintains cancer cell growth under metabolic stress

ZT Schug, B Peck, DT Jones, Q Zhang, S Grosskurth… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
A functional genomics study revealed that the activity of acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 (ACSS2)
contributes to cancer cell growth under low-oxygen and lipid-depleted conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Acetate is a bioenergetic substrate for human glioblastoma and brain metastases

T Mashimo, K Pichumani, V Vemireddy, KJ Hatanpaa… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Glioblastomas and brain metastases are highly proliferative brain tumors with short survival
times. Previously, using 13 C-NMR analysis of brain tumors resected from patients during …

[HTML][HTML] Acetate dependence of tumors

SA Comerford, Z Huang, X Du, Y Wang, L Cai… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Acetyl-CoA represents a central node of carbon metabolism that plays a key role in
bioenergetics, cell proliferation, and the regulation of gene expression. Highly glycolytic or …

[HTML][HTML] ATP-citrate lyase controls a glucose-to-acetate metabolic switch

S Zhao, AM Torres, RA Henry, S Trefely, M Wallace… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Mechanisms of metabolic flexibility enable cells to survive under stressful conditions and
can thwart therapeutic responses. Acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) plays central roles in energy …

[HTML][HTML] Memory CD8+ T cells require increased concentrations of acetate induced by stress for optimal function

ML Balmer, EH Ma, GR Bantug, J Grählert, S Pfister… - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
How systemic metabolic alterations during acute infections impact immune cell function
remains poorly understood. We found that acetate accumulates in the serum within hours of …

Acetate metabolism in physiology, cancer, and beyond

S Bose, V Ramesh, JW Locasale - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Acetate and the related metabolism of acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) confer numerous
metabolic functions, including energy production, lipid synthesis, and protein acetylation …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analysis of acetyl-CoA production in hypoxic cancer cells reveals substantial contribution from acetate

JJ Kamphorst, MK Chung, J Fan, JD Rabinowitz - Cancer & metabolism, 2014 - Springer
Background Cell growth requires fatty acids for membrane synthesis. Fatty acids are
assembled from 2-carbon units in the form of acetyl-CoA (AcCoA). In nutrient and oxygen …