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2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Characteristics of metabolism of fatty acid and glucose in human cancer

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12670169
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Human pathology
Research InstitutionFukushima Medical University

Principal Investigator

SUZUKI Toshimitsu  Fukushima Medical University, School of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (80018952)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SUGINO Takashi  Fukushima Medical University, School of Medicine, assistant, 医学部, 助手 (90171165)
WATANABE Kazuo  Fukushima Medical University, University Hospital, associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (80167105)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2001
KeywordsFATTY ACID SYNTHASE / FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN / GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER / HUMAN CARCINOMA / SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA / METASTATIC MODEL / DRUG RESISTENCE / CERULENIN
Research Abstract

1. Fatty acid synthase (FAS) was highly expressed in prenoplastic lesions of esophagus and stomach in addition to their carcioma. Bladder carcinoma exhibited high expression of FAS even in dysphasia and/or carcinoma in situ. On the other hand, FAS expression was not observed in hyperplasia or adenoma of the pancreas in spite of high expression in the pancreatic carcinoma.
2. FAS expression combined with Ki-67 labelling indices was an indicator of prognosis in soft tissue sarcoma.
3. Cell lines of colon carcinoma and undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma showed necrosis and apoptosis by treatment with cerulenin, a specific inhibitor for FAS, with marked decrease in ATP content in the treated cancer cells.
4. Multi-drug resistant leukemic cell lines treated with cerulenin exhibited more pronounced cell death1 than their parent cell lines did.
5. The cerulenin-treated cancer cells revealed decreased expression of acyl Co-A synthase, lysophosphatidic acid transferase-β and N-myristoylacyltransferase-2, and increased expression of middle chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase-α and N-mirystoylacyltransferase-1. In addition, the cells disclosed increased expression of hexokinase-1.
6. The carcioma cells derived from widely metastatic clone of AH7974 rat ascites hepatoma highly expressed FAS when they migrated in the blood vessels, while the parent cells of AH7974 in the blood vessels were very low or null in FAS-expression.
7. Expression of liver type fatty acid binding protein (FABP) showed similar pattern to that of FAS in stomach and lung cancers.
8. Expression of heart type FABP was associated with progression, aggressiveness of stomach carcinoma and patient survival of this cancer, which was in marked contrast with breast carcinoma of which growth was suppressed by H-FABP.
9. Glucose trasporter-1 was a marker for prognosis of stomach and lung carcinoma.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Suzuki et al.: "Fatty acid synthase expression in Japanese breast carcinoma patients"International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 4. 381-387 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Takashi Kusakabe et al.: "Fatty acid synthase is expressed mainly in adult hormone-sensitive cells or with high lipid metabolism and proliferating cells of fetus"Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 48. 995-1004 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Suzuki et al.: "Expression of glucose transpoter-1 in human gastric carcinoma.Association with tumor aggressiveness, metatastasis and patient survival"CANCER. 92. 634-641 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Suzuki et al.: "Biological characteristics and chemosensitivity profile of four human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cell lines"BIOMEDICINE and PHARMACOTHERADY. 55. 466-474 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Kazuo Watanabe et al.: "Myofibrosarcoma of the bone : a clinicopathologic study"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. 25. 1501-1507 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Suzuki et al.: "Fatty acid synthase is highly expressed in carcinoma, adenoma, and in regenerative epithelium and intestinal metaplasia of the stomach"HISTOPATHOLOGY. 40(1). 71-79 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Nakamura I, Kimijima I, Zhang G-J, Onogi H, Endo Y, Suzuki S, Tsuchiya A, Takenoshita S, Kusakabe T, suzuki T.: "Fatty acid synthase expression in Japanese breast carcinoma patients"International Journal of Molecular medicine. 4. 381-387 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kasakabe T, Maeda M, Hoshi N, Sugino T, Watanabe K, Fukuda T, Suzuki T.: "Fatty acid synthase is expressed mainly in adult hormone-sensitive cells or cells with high lipid metabolism and in proliferating cells of fetus"Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 48(5). 995-1004 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Kawamura T, Kusakabe T, Sugino T, Watanabe K, Fukuda T, Nashimoto A, Honma K, Suzuki Ty.: "Expression of glucose transporter-1 in human gastric carcinoma Association with tumor aggressiveness metastasis and patient survival"Cancer. 92. 634-641 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Sekiguchi M, Shiroko Y, Aral T, Kishino T, Sugawara I, Kusakabe T, Suzuki T, Yamashita T, Obara T, Ito K, Hasumi K.: "Biological characteristics and chemosensitivity profile of four human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cell line"Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 55. 466-474 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Kusakabe T, Nashimoto A, Honma K, Suzuki T.: "Fatty acid synthase is highly expressed in carcinoma adenoma and in regenerative epithelium and intestinal metaplasia of the stomach"Histopathology. 40(1). 71-79 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Nemoto T, Terashima S, Kogure M, Hoshino Y, Kusakabe T, Suzuki T, Goto M.: "Overexpression of fatty acid synthase in esophageal squamous celldysplasia and carcinoma"Pathology. (in press).

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