Molecular aspects of fructose metabolism and metabolic disease

MA Herman, MJ Birnbaum - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Excessive sugar consumption is increasingly considered as a contributor to the emerging
epidemics of obesity and the associated cardiometabolic disease. Sugar is added to the diet …

Dietary fructose and fructose-induced pathologies

S Jung, H Bae, WS Song, C Jang - Annual review of nutrition, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The consumption of fructose as sugar and high-fructose corn syrup has markedly increased
during the past several decades. This trend coincides with the exponential rise of metabolic …

Dietary fructose feeds hepatic lipogenesis via microbiota-derived acetate

S Zhao, C Jang, J Liu, K Uehara, M Gilbert, L Izzo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Consumption of fructose has risen markedly in recent decades owing to the use of sucrose
and high-fructose corn syrup in beverages and processed foods, and this has contributed to …

The small intestine converts dietary fructose into glucose and organic acids

C Jang, S Hui, W Lu, AJ Cowan, RJ Morscher, G Lee… - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Excessive consumption of sweets is a risk factor for metabolic syndrome. A major chemical
feature of sweets is fructose. Despite strong ties between fructose and disease, the …

Fructose and sugar: A major mediator of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

T Jensen, MF Abdelmalek, S Sullivan, KJ Nadeau… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic manifestation of metabolic
syndrome; its rising prevalence parallels the rise in obesity and diabetes. Historically …

“Sweet death”: fructose as a metabolic toxin that targets the gut-liver axis

MA Febbraio, M Karin - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Glucose and fructose are closely related simple sugars, but fructose has been associated
more closely with metabolic disease. Until the 1960s, the major dietary source of fructose …

Four key steps control glycolytic flux in mammalian cells

LB Tanner, AG Goglia, MH Wei, T Sehgal, LR Parsons… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Altered glycolysis is a hallmark of diseases including diabetes and cancer. Despite intensive
study of the contributions of individual glycolytic enzymes, systems-level analyses of flux …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic drivers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

KK Bence, MJ Birnbaum - Molecular metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rapidly increasing
worldwide parallel to the global obesity epidemic. NAFLD encompasses a range of liver …

Inhibition of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by phosphorylation or the inhibitor ND-654 suppresses lipogenesis and hepatocellular carcinoma

JSV Lally, S Ghoshal, DK DePeralta, O Moaven, L Wei… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rapidly increasing due to the
prevalence of obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but the molecular triggers that …

High-fructose corn syrup enhances intestinal tumor growth in mice

MD Goncalves, C Lu, J Tutnauer, TE Hartman… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Excessive consumption of beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is
associated with obesity and with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. Whether HFCS …