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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta2013

Yeast and cancer cells - common principles in lipid metabolism.

Klaus Natter, Sepp D Kohlwein

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Yeast as a Model for Human Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  2. Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2026
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  4. Large enrichments in fatty acidProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Mitochondrial Carriers and Substrates Transport Network: A Lesson fromInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  8. Science translational medicine · 2021
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  11. The yeastJournal of cell science · 2020
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  13. Liquid-crystalline phase transitions in lipid droplets are related to cellular states and specific organelle association.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  16. The glycerol backbone of phospholipids derives from noncarbohydrate precursors in starved lung cancer cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Klaus NatterUniversity of Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Lipidomics Research Center Graz, Humboldtstrasse 50/II, 8010 Graz, klaus.natter@uni-graz.at
Sepp D Kohlwein

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the paradigms in cancer pathogenesis is the requirement of a cell to undergo transformation from respiration to aerobic glycolysis - the Warburg effect - to become malignant. The demands of a rapidly proliferating cell for carbon metabolites for the synthesis of biomass, energy and redox equivalents, are fundamentally different from the requirements of a differentiated, quiescent cell, but it remains open whether this metabolic switch is a cause or a consequence of malignant transformation. One of the major requirements is the synthesis of lipids for membrane formation to allow for cell proliferation, cell cycle progression and cytokinesis. Enzymes involved in lipid metabolism were indeed found to play a major role in cancer cell proliferation, and most of these enzymes are conserved in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Most notably, cancer cell physiology and metabolic fluxes are very similar to those in the fermenting and rapidly proliferating yeast. Both types of cells display highly active pathways for the synthesis of fatty acids and their incorporation into complex lipids, and imbalances in synthesis or turnover of lipids affect growth and viability of both yeast and cancer cells. Thus, understanding lipid metabolism in S. cerevisiae during cell cycle progression and cell proliferation may complement recent efforts to understand the importance and fundamental regulatory mechanisms of these pathways in cancer.

Indexed as

Lipid MetabolismCell CycleCell ProliferationFatty AcidsFermentationHumansNeoplasmsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeFatty Acids

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PMID22989772
PMCPMC3549488

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