The role of SCAP/SREBP as central regulators of lipid metabolism in hepatic steatosis

P Chandrasekaran, R Weiskirchen - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is
rapidly increasing worldwide at an alarming pace, due to an increase in obesity, sedentary …

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 …

Key events in cancer: Dysregulation of SREBPs

Y Li, S Wu, X Zhao, S Hao, F Li, Y Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lipid metabolism reprogramming is an important hallmark of tumor progression. Cancer
cells require high levels of lipid synthesis and uptake not only to support their continued …

Carbon dioxide regulates cholesterol levels through SREBP2

N Bolshette, S Ezagouri, V Dandavate, I Karavaeva… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In mammals, O2 and CO2 levels are tightly regulated and are altered under various
pathological conditions. While the molecular mechanisms that participate in O2 sensing are …

Caffeine supplementation and FOXM1 inhibition enhance the antitumor effect of statins in neuroblastoma

GB Tran, J Ding, B Ye, M Liu, Y Yu, Y Zha, Z Dong… - Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
High-risk neuroblastoma exhibits transcriptional activation of the mevalonate pathway that
produces cholesterol and nonsterol isoprenoids. A better understanding of how this …

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum H-87 prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by regulating bile acid metabolism in C57BL/6J mice

C Liang, XH Zhou, PM Gong, HY Niu, LZ Lyu, YF Wu… - Food & function, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Bile salt hydrolase (BSH)-producing bacteria are negatively related to the body weight gain
and energy storage of the host. We aimed to obtain a novel BSH-producing strain with …

Enhanced SREBP2-driven cholesterol biosynthesis by PKCλ/ι deficiency in intestinal epithelial cells promotes aggressive serrated tumorigenesis

Y Muta, JF Linares, A Martinez-Ordoñez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The metabolic and signaling pathways regulating aggressive mesenchymal colorectal
cancer (CRC) initiation and progression through the serrated route are largely unknown …

A cholesterol-binding bacterial toxin provides a strategy for identifying a specific Scap inhibitor that blocks lipid synthesis in animal cells

S Xu, JC Smothers, D Rye… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Lipid synthesis is regulated by the actions of Scap, a polytopic membrane protein that binds
cholesterol in membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). When ER cholesterol levels …

A High-Throughput Screening Platform Identifies FDA-Approved Drugs That Inhibit SREBP Pathway Activation

C T. Ishida, CS Kubota, E Carlyle… - ACS chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) transcription factors are central
regulators of lipid homeostasis and are essential for lipid metabolic reprogramming that …

SREBPs as the potential target for solving the polypharmacy dilemma

X Wang, Y Chen, H Meng, F Meng - Frontiers in Physiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The phenomenon of polypharmacy is a common occurrence among older people with
multiple health conditions due to the rapid increase in population aging and the …