Fatty acid synthase: an emerging target in cancer

CW Fhu, A Ali - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, lipid metabolism has garnered significant attention as it provides the
necessary building blocks required to sustain tumor growth and serves as an alternative fuel …

Overview of cancer metabolism and signaling transduction

HS Chae, ST Hong - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite the remarkable progress in cancer treatment up to now, we are still far from
conquering the disease. The most substantial change after the malignant transformation of …

Inhibition of de novo palmitate synthesis by fatty acid synthase induces apoptosis in tumor cells by remodeling cell membranes, inhibiting signaling pathways, and …

R Ventura, K Mordec, J Waszczuk, Z Wang, J Lai… - …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Inhibition of de novo palmitate synthesis via fatty acid synthase (FASN) inhibition provides
an unproven approach to cancer therapy with a strong biological rationale. FASN …

[HTML][HTML] p53 and metabolism: from mechanism to therapeutics

FM Simabuco, MG Morale, ICB Pavan, AP Morelli… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The tumor cell changes itself and its microenvironment to adapt to different situations,
including action of drugs and other agents targeting tumor control. Therefore, metabolism …

Orlistat as a FASN inhibitor and multitargeted agent for cancer therapy

A Schcolnik-Cabrera, A Chávez-Blanco… - Expert opinion on …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Cancer cells have increased glycolysis and glutaminolysis. Their third feature is
increased de novo lipogenesis. As such, fatty acid (FA) synthesis enzymes are over …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroptosis in hematological malignancies and its potential network with abnormal tumor metabolism

J Zhang, Y Liu, Q Li, A Xu, Y Hu, C Sun - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis, a new type of regulated cell death, displays characteristics that transparently
differ from apoptosis, autophagy and necroptosis. There is growing appreciation that …

The fatty acid synthase inhibitor orlistat reduces the growth and metastasis of orthotopic tongue oral squamous cell carcinomas

M Agostini, LY Almeida, DC Bastos, RM Ortega… - Molecular cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is the biosynthetic enzyme responsible for the endogenous
synthesis of fatty acids. It is downregulated in most normal cells, except in lipogenic tissues …

Progress in the development of fatty acid synthase inhibitors as anticancer targets

GE Mullen, L Yet - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Fatty acid synthase (EC 2.3. 1.85; FASN) is a multifunctional enzyme system that
catalyzes the formation of fatty acids from acetyl-CoA, malonyl-CoA, and NADPH and plays …

Orchestral role of lipid metabolic reprogramming in T-cell malignancy

A Mehta, YK Ratre, VK Soni, D Shukla… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The immune function of normal T cells partially depends on the maneuvering of lipid
metabolism through various stages and subsets. Interestingly, T-cell malignancies also …

Drug redeployment to kill leukemia and lymphoma cells by disrupting SCD1-mediated synthesis of monounsaturated fatty acids

AD Southam, FL Khanim, RE Hayden, JK Constantinou… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
The redeployed drug combination of bezafibrate and medroxyprogesterone acetate
(designated BaP) has potent in vivo anticancer activity in acute myelogenous leukemia …