The role of lipids in cancer progression and metastasis

M Martin-Perez, U Urdiroz-Urricelqui, C Bigas… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Lipids have essential biological functions in the body (eg, providing energy storage, acting
as a signaling molecule, and being a structural component of membranes); however, an …

Dietary fat and cancer—which is good, which is bad, and the body of evidence

B Bojková, PJ Winklewski… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A high-fat diet (HFD) induces changes in gut microbiota leading to activation of pro-
inflammatory pathways, and obesity, as a consequence of overnutrition, exacerbates …

Reprogramming of palmitic acid induced by dephosphorylation of ACOX1 promotes β-catenin palmitoylation to drive colorectal cancer progression

Q Zhang, X Yang, J Wu, S Ye, J Gong, WM Cheng… - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer. However, it is not well known how
metabolism affects cancer progression. We identified that metabolic enzyme acyl-CoA …

TNF compromises intestinal bile-acid tolerance dictating colitis progression and limited infliximab response

M Zheng, Y Zhai, Y Yu, J Shen, S Chu, E Focaccia… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
The intestine constantly encounters and adapts to the external environment shaped by
diverse dietary nutrients. However, whether and how gut adaptability to dietary challenges is …

Diet, lipids, and antitumor immunity

H Prendeville, L Lynch - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour growth and dissemination is largely dependent on nutrient availability. It has
recently emerged that the tumour microenvironment is rich in a diverse array of lipids that …

Single-cell mapping of lipid metabolites using an infrared probe in human-derived model systems

Y Bai, CM Camargo, SMK Glasauer, R Gifford… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding metabolic heterogeneity is the key to uncovering the underlying mechanisms
of metabolic-related diseases. Current metabolic imaging studies suffer from limitations …

Microbial metabolites in colorectal tumorigenesis and cancer therapy

Y Liu, HCH Lau, J Yu - Gut Microbes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Trillions of microbes are indigenous to the human gastrointestinal tract, together forming an
ecological community known as the gut microbiota. The gut microbiota is involved in dietary …

Pentadecanoic acid, an odd-chain fatty acid, suppresses the stemness of MCF-7/SC human breast cancer stem-like cells through JAK2/STAT3 signaling

NB To, YTK Nguyen, JY Moon, MK Ediriweera, SK Cho - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Saturated fatty acids possess few health benefits compared to unsaturated fatty acids.
However, increasing experimental evidence demonstrates the nutritionally beneficial role of …

Targeting tumor innervation: premises, promises, and challenges

X Li, X Peng, S Yang, S Wei, Q Fan, J Liu, L Yang… - Cell death …, 2022 - nature.com
A high intratumoral nerve density is correlated with poor survival, high metastasis, and high
recurrence across multiple solid tumor types. Recent research has revealed that cancer cells …

High-fat diet aggravates colitis-associated carcinogenesis by evading ferroptosis in the ER stress-mediated pathway

X Zhang, W Li, Y Ma, X Zhao, L He, P Sun… - Free Radical Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis, a type of programmed cell death caused by lipid peroxidation has recently been
observed in colitis. Whether a high-fat diet (HFD) affects ferroptosis and whether it …