HAMLET in human milk is resistant to digestion and carries essential free long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and oleic acid

KE Chetta, M Forconi, DA Newton, CL Wagner… - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The oleic acid/alpha-lactalbumin complex HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal
to tumors) is cytotoxic to various cancerous cell lines and is assembled from alpha …

The formation of an anti-cancer complex under simulated gastric conditions

LM Sullivan, KH Mok, A Brodkorb - Food Digestion, 2013 - Springer
A potent anti-cancer complex has previously been formed from two major components of
milk. Human/bovine α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumour cells (H/BAMLET) is a protein–fatty …

α-Lactalbumin, engineered to be nonnative and inactive, kills tumor cells when in complex with oleic acid: a new biological function resulting from partial unfolding

J Pettersson-Kastberg, AK Mossberg… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) is a tumoricidal complex
consisting of partially unfolded protein and fatty acid and was first identified in casein …

Structure and function of human α‐lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells (HAMLET)‐type complexes

AK Mossberg, K Hun Mok… - The FEBS …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Human α‐lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells (HAMLET) and equine lysozyme with oleic
acid (ELOA) are complexes consisting of protein and fatty acid that exhibit cytotoxic …

[HTML][HTML] Compact oleic acid in HAMLET

J Fast, AK Mossberg, H Nilsson, C Svanborg, M Akke… - Febs Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) is a complex between α-
lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells …

Heat-treatment method for producing fatty acid-bound alpha-lactalbumin that induces tumor cell death

T Kamijima, A Ohmura, T Sato, K Akimoto… - Biochemical and …, 2008 - Elsevier
HAMLET (Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made LEthal to Tumor cells), which was identified in
human breast milk as an alpha-lactalbumin (LA)–oleic acid complex, kills tumor cells …

Cytotoxic lactalbumin-oleic acid complexes in the human milk diet of preterm infants

KE Chetta, JL Alcorn, JE Baatz, CL Wagner - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Frozen storage is necessary to preserve expressed human milk for critically ill and very
preterm infants. Milk pasteurization is essential for donor milk given to this special …

α-Lactalbumin species variation, HAMLET formation, and tumor cell death

J Pettersson, AK Mossberg, C Svanborg - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2006 - Elsevier
HAMLET (human α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) is a tumoricidal complex of apo α-
lactalbumin and oleic acid, formed in casein after low pH treatment of human milk. This study …

[PDF][PDF] HAMLET, protein folding, and tumor cell death

KH Mok, J Pettersson, S Orrenius… - … and biophysical research …, 2007 - cohensw.com
HAMLET (Human a-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) was discovered by serendipity.
The first publication in 1995 described the discovery and the unusual properties of what later …

Binding of α-lactalbumin to oleic acid monolayer and its relevance to formation of HAMLET-like complexes

K Dopierała, M Krajewska, K Prochaska - International Dairy Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
The α-lactalbumin from human milk forms a cytotoxic protein-fatty acid complex with oleic
acid (OA) called HAMLET, which is probably formed in the stomach of a breastfed infant …