Lipid metabolism reprogramming and its potential targets in cancer

C Cheng, F Geng, X Cheng, D Guo - Cancer communications, 2018 - Springer
Reprogramming of lipid metabolism is a newly recognized hallmark of malignancy.
Increased lipid uptake, storage and lipogenesis occur in a variety of cancers and contribute …

Lipid metabolism in glioblastoma: from de novo synthesis to storage

Y Kou, F Geng, D Guo - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal primary brain tumor. With limited therapeutic options,
novel therapies are desperately needed. Recent studies have shown that GBM acquires …

[HTML][HTML] Ammonia stimulates SCAP/Insig dissociation and SREBP-1 activation to promote lipogenesis and tumour growth

C Cheng, F Geng, Z Li, Y Zhong, H Wang, X Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumorigenesis is associated with elevated glucose and glutamine consumption, but how
cancer cells can sense their levels to activate lipid synthesis is unknown. Here, we reveal …

The emerging role of progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (PGRMC1) in cancer biology

MA Cahill, JA Jazayeri, SM Catalano… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (PGRMC1) is a multi-functional protein with
a heme-binding moiety related to that of cytochrome b 5, which is a putative progesterone …

Hepatic glycogenesis antagonizes lipogenesis by blocking S1P via UDPG

J Chen, Y Zhou, Z Liu, Y Lu, Y Jiang, K Cao, N Zhou… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The identification of mechanisms to store glucose carbon in the form of glycogen rather than
fat in hepatocytes has important implications for the prevention of nonalcoholic fatty liver …

Identification of key genes affecting porcine fat deposition based on co-expression network analysis of weighted genes

K Xing, H Liu, F Zhang, Y Liu, Y Shi, X Ding… - Journal of animal science …, 2021 - Springer
Background Fat deposition is an important economic consideration in pig production. The
amount of fat deposition in pigs seriously affects production efficiency, quality, and …

Thoughts on interactions between PGRMC1 and diverse attested and potential hydrophobic ligands

MA Cahill, AE Medlock - The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component 1 (PGRMC1) is located in many
different subcellular locations with many different attested and probably location-specific …

PGRMC proteins are coming of age: a special issue on the role of PGRMC1 and PGRMC2 in metabolism and cancer biology

MA Cahill, H Neubauer - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
This is a preface by the guest editors of the special issue of Cancers featuring the biology of
progesterone (P4) receptor membrane component (PGRMC) proteins as it relates to …

Quo vadis PGRMC? Grand-scale biology in human health and disease

MA Cahill - Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 2022 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
The title usage of Latin Quo vadis 'where are you going'extends the question Unde venisti
from where 'did you come?'posed in the accompanying paper and extends consideration of …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of SCAP N-glycosylation and Trafficking in Human Cells

C Cheng, JY Guo, F Geng, X Wu, X Cheng… - Journal of Visualized …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Elevated lipogenesis is a common characteristic of cancer and metabolic diseases. Sterol
regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs), a family of membrane-bound transcription …