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Cellular Fatty Acid Metabolism and Cancer
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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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Metadata
- 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)
- PMC
- PMC3742569
- 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
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (vor, 370 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- 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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