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Cellular Fatty Acid Metabolism and Cancer

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Currie, Erin, Schulze, Almut, Zechner, Rudolf, Walther, Tobias C., Farese, Robert V.·2013·Cell Metabolism

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Cancer cells often have characteristic changes in metabolism. Cellular proliferation, a common feature of all cancers, requires fatty acids for synthesis of membranes and signaling molecules. Here, we provide a view of cancer cell metabolism from a lipid perspective, and we summarize evidence that limiting fatty acid availability can control cancer cell proliferation.

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  • ACLY is a key enzyme in the shift from the TCA cycle to lipid formation and has been shown to cause lipid droplet accumulation.

    “For example, expression of ACLY, a key enzyme in the shift from the TCA cycle to lipid formation that has been shown to cause lipid droplet accumulation42, is significantly higher in LDAM than in microglia without lipid droplets.”

    From Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia represent a dysfunctional and proinflammatory state in the aging brain (2020) · cites this paper as [42]

    The ACLY subsection of “Blocking Fatty Acid Synthesis” says ACLY links glucose metabolism to fatty-acid synthesis and that knocking it down reduces conversion of glucose to lipid. The “Diverting Fatty Acids to Storage” subsection discusses lipid droplets, but does not say ACLY causes their accumulation. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • Fatty acid synthesis is an anabolic process that uses cytosolic citrate to produce acetyl-CoA.

    “Fatty acid synthesis is an anabolic process that uses cytosolic citrate to produce acetyl-CoA73.”

    From Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism (2020) · cites this paper as [73]

  • Mitochondrial citrate is transported across the inner mitochondrial membrane via CIC or SLC25A1 to support fatty acid synthesis for tumor progression in hypoxia.

    “Next, mitochondrial citrate is transported across the inner mitochondrial membrane via a citrate carrier (CIC or SLC25A1) to support fatty acid synthesis for tumor progression in hypoxia73 (Fig. 4).”

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  • PHD3 is suppressed in cancers that rely on FAO, such as AML and prostate cancer, and elevated in cancers that rely on FAS such as breast and non-small-lung-cell cancer.

    “PHD3 is suppressed in cancers that rely on FAO, such as AML and prostate cancer, and elevated in cancers that rely on FAS such as breast and non-small-lung-cell cancer.55–57”

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Authors
Currie, E., Schulze, A., Zechner, R., Walther, T. C., & Farese, R. V.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Cancer Research UK (GB)
  • University of Graz (AT)
  • Yale University (US)
Corresponding author
Farese, Robert V.
Venue
Cell Metabolism
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-08
Volume
18
Issue
2
Pages
153-161
ISSN
1550-4131 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1980568044
Cited by
2,123
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 118 · 2025: 221 · 2024: 228 · 2023: 221 · 2022: 266 · 2021: 204 · 2020: 193 · 2019: 177 · 2018: 139 · 2017: 122 · 2016: 115 · 2015: 72 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 1
FWCI
6.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell Metabolism (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM099844, R01GM097194)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK056084, P30DK063720, P30DK026743)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
Keywords
fatty acid metabolism, cancer metabolism, lipid metabolism, tumor cell proliferation, fatty acid availability, membrane lipid synthesis
MeSH terms
Energy Metabolism, Fatty Acids, Humans, Neoplasms, Cell Proliferation, Lipid Metabolism

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