ArticleCancers2021
Adipocytes Promote Breast Cancer Cell Survival and Migration through Autophagy Activation.
Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Targeting programmed cell death: a novel therapeutic paradigm for cancer based on mode-of-death classification.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026Review
- Inhibiting SNX10 induces autophagy to suppress invasion and EMT and inhibits the PI3K/AKT pathway in cervical cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025Article
- Lipid metabolic reprograming: the unsung hero in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of chemoresistance in paediatric pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2024Review
- Reprogramming of Lipid Metabolism Mediates Crosstalk, Remodeling, and Intervention of Microenvironment Components in Breast Cancer.International journal of biological sciences · 2024Review
- Cancer/testis antigen CAGE mediates osimertinib resistance in non-small cell lung cancer cells and predicts poor prognosis in patients with pulmonary adenocarcinoma.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Changes in the mammary gland during aging and its links with breast diseases.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2023Review
- Effects of adipocyte-conditioned cell culture media on S1P treatment of human triple-negative breast cancer cells.PloS one · 2023Article
- The pleiotropic roles of adipocyte secretome in remodeling breast cancer.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2022Review
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Abstract
White adipose tissue interacts closely with breast cancers through the secretion of soluble factors such as cytokines, growth factors or fatty acids. However, the molecular mechanisms of these interactions and their roles in cancer progression remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the role of fatty acids in the cooperation between adipocytes and breast cancer cells using a co-culture model. We report that adipocytes increase autophagy in breast cancer cells through the acidification of lysosomes, leading to cancer cell survival in nutrient-deprived conditions and to cancer cell migration. Mechanistically, the disturbance of membrane phospholipid composition with a decrease in arachidonic acid content is responsible for autophagy activation in breast cancer cells induced by adipocytes. Therefore, autophagy might be a central cellular mechanism of white adipose tissue interactions with cancer cells and thus participate in cancer progression.
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