Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling and its role in disease

M Maceyka, KB Harikumar, S Milstien, S Spiegel - Trends in cell biology, 2012 - cell.com
The bioactive sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is now recognized as
a critical regulator of many physiological and pathophysiological processes, including …

Targeting the sphingosine-1-phosphate axis in cancer, inflammation and beyond

GT Kunkel, M Maceyka, S Milstien… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2013 - nature.com
The bioactive lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is involved in multiple cellular signalling
systems and has a pivotal role in the control of immune cell trafficking. As such, S1P has …

Fingolimod interrupts the cross talk between estrogen metabolism and sphingolipid metabolism within prostate cancer cells

RM Allam, AM Al-Abd, A Khedr, OA Sharaf, SM Nofal… - Toxicology Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Sphingolipids are critical regulators of tumor microenvironments and play an important role
in estrogen-dependent cancers. Estrogen and estrogen metabolites were found to be …

Targeting sphingolipids for cancer therapy

O Companioni, C Mir, Y Garcia-Mayea… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sphingolipids are an extensive class of lipids with different functions in the cell, ranging from
proliferation to cell death. Sphingolipids are modified in multiple cancers and are …

Emerging roles of ceramides in breast cancer biology and therapy

P Pal, GE Atilla-Gokcumen, J Frasor - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the classic hallmarks of cancer is the imbalance between elevated cell proliferation
and reduced cell death. Ceramide, a bioactive sphingolipid that can regulate this balance …

Sphingosine kinase 1 in cancer

LA Heffernan-Stroud, LM Obeid - Advances in cancer research, 2013 - Elsevier
The role of sphingolipids as bioactive signaling molecules that can regulate cell fate
decisions puts them at center stage for cancer treatment and prevention. While ceramide …

Inhibition of sphingosine kinase 2 downregulates the expression of c-Myc and Mcl-1 and induces apoptosis in multiple myeloma

J Kummetha Venkata, N An, R Stuart… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Sphingolipid metabolism is being increasingly recognized as a key pathway in regulating
cancer cell survival and proliferation. However, very little is known about its role in multiple …

Importance of sphingosine kinase (SphK) as a target in developing cancer therapeutics and recent developments in the synthesis of novel SphK inhibitors …

D Plano, S Amin, AK Sharma - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Sphingosine kinase (SphK) is an oncogenic lipid kinase that regulates the sphingolipid
metabolic pathway that has been shown to play a role in numerous hyperproliferative …

Expansion of sphingosine kinase and sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor function in normal and cancer cells: from membrane restructuring to mediation of estrogen …

OA Sukocheva - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Sphingolipids, sphingolipid metabolizing enzymes, and their receptors network are being
recognized as part of the signaling mechanisms, which govern breast cancer cell growth …

Sphingosine kinase inhibitors and cancer: seeking the golden sword of Hercules

S Pyne, R Bittman, NJ Pyne - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
There is considerable evidence that sphingosine kinases play a key role in cancer
progression, which might involve positive selection of cancer cells that have been provided …