Emerging roles for lipids in non-apoptotic cell death

L Magtanong, PJ Ko, SJ Dixon - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2016 - nature.com
Non-apoptotic regulated cell death (RCD) is essential to maintain organismal homeostasis
and may be aberrantly activated during certain pathological states. Lipids are emerging as …

Lipid cell biology: a focus on lipids in cell division

EM Storck, C Özbalci, US Eggert - Annual review of biochemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Cells depend on hugely diverse lipidomes for many functions. The actions and structural
integrity of the plasma membrane and most organelles also critically depend on membranes …

Shotgun lipidomics-based characterization of the landscape of lipid metabolism in colorectal cancer

Y Wang, S Hinz, O Uckermann, P Hönscheid… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid tumors are characterized by global metabolic alterations which contribute to their
growth and progression. Altered gene expression profiles and plasma lipid composition …

Very long chain fatty acids are functionally involved in necroptosis

LR Parisi, N Li, GE Atilla-Gokcumen - Cell Chemical Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Necroptosis is a form of regulated cell death that is linked to various human diseases.
Distinct membrane-related, thus lipid-dependent, alterations take place during necroptosis …

A localized hydrogel-mediated chemotherapy causes immunogenic cell death via activation of ceramide-mediated unfolded protein response

A Kar, D Jain, S Kumar, K Rajput, S Pal, K Rana… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is challenging because of its “COLD”
tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME). Here, we present a hydrogel-mediated …

Regulation of lipids is central to replicative senescence

DY Lizardo, YL Lin, O Gokcumen… - Molecular …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellular replicative senescence, a state of permanent cell-cycle arrest, has been linked to
organismal aging, tissue repair and tumorigenesis. In this study, we comparatively …

Metabolic coessentiality mapping identifies C12orf49 as a regulator of SREBP processing and cholesterol metabolism

EC Bayraktar, K La, K Karpman, G Unlu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Coessentiality mapping has been useful to systematically cluster genes into biological
pathways and identify gene functions,–. Here, using the debiased sparse partial correlation …

MicroRNA-143 promotes apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells by caspase-3 activation via targeting Bcl-2

W Li, H Wu, Y Li, H Pan, T Meng, X Wang - Biomedicine & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor. In recent years, although a lot of
research in the mechanism of osteosarcoma development and metastasis had been done …

Ceramide kinase (Cerk) emerges as a common therapeutic target for triple positive and triple negative breast cancer cells

K Rajput, MN Ansari, SK Jha, T Pani, N Medatwal… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Existing chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer patients are high on
toxicity. There are very limited options available for triple-positive breast cancer (TPBC) …

Acid ceramidase controls apoptosis and increases autophagy in human melanoma cells treated with doxorubicin

M Lai, R Amato, V La Rocca, M Bilgin, G Freer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acid ceramidase (AC) is a lysosomal hydrolase encoded by the ASAH1 gene, which cleaves
ceramides into sphingosine and fatty acid. AC is expressed at high levels in most human …