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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Single-Cell Profiling of Fatty Acid Uptake Using Surface-Immobilized Dendrimers.

Zhili Guo, Hanjun Cheng, Zhonghan Li, Shiqun Shao, Priyanka Sarkar, Siwen Wang, Rohit Chaudhuri, Nicole G Perkins, Fei Ji, Wei Wei and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhili GuoDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Hanjun ChengInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States.
Zhonghan LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Shiqun ShaoDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Priyanka SarkarDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Siwen WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Rohit ChaudhuriDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Nicole G PerkinsDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Fei JiDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Wei WeiInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1018-7708
Min XueDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8136-6551
University of California, Riverside · USInstitute for Systems Biology · US

Funding

Repurposing of cancer therapeutics for treatment of patients with COVID-19 diseaseU54CA199090 · NCI · INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY · PI HEATH, JAMES R., RIBAS, ANTONI · 2015 to 2020
$11.4M
Steady states and cellular transitions associated with carcinogenesis and tumorprogressionU01CA217655 · NCI · INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY · PI HEATH, JAMES R., WEI, WEI · 2017 to 2021
$3.9M
Profiling fatty acid uptake and activity in single tumor cellsR03CA227352 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI WEI, WEI, XUE, MIN · 2019 to 2020
$177k
NCI NIH HHS R03 CA227352NCI NIH HHS U01 CA217655NCI NIH HHS U54 CA199090
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a chemical approach to profile fatty acid uptake in single cells. We use azide-modified analogues to probe the fatty acid influx and surface-immobilized dendrimers with dibenzocyclooctyne (DBCO) groups for detection. A competition between the fatty acid probes and BHQ2-azide quencher molecules generates fluorescence signals in a concentration-dependent manner. By integrating this method onto a microfluidics-based multiplex protein analysis platform, we resolved the relationships between fatty acid influx, oncogenic signaling activities, and cell proliferation in single glioblastoma cells. We found that p70S6K and 4EBP1 differentially correlated with fatty acid uptake. We validated that cotargeting p70S6K and fatty acid metabolism synergistically inhibited cell proliferation. Our work provided the first example of studying fatty acid metabolism in the context of protein signaling at single-cell resolution and generated new insights into cancer biology.

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Single-Cell AnalysisAzidesCell ProliferationCyclooctanesDendrimersFatty AcidsFluorescenceGlioblastomaHumansMolecular StructureSurface PropertiesAzidesCyclooctanesDendrimersFatty Acids

Identifiers

PMID34266234
PMCPMC8336569
OpenAlexW3179041333

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