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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Schug ZT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4297291 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cancer cell 20150101 1
A functional genomics study revealed that the activity of acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 (ACSS2) contributes to cancer cell growth under low-oxygen and lipid-depleted conditions. Comparative metabolomics and lipidomics demonstrated that acetate is used as a nutritional source by cancer cells in an ACSS2-dependent manner, and supplied a significant fraction of the carbon within the fatty acid and phospholipid pools. ACSS2 expression is upregulated under metabolically stressed conditions and ACSS2 silenc ...[more]