FASN, fatty acid synthase, 2194

N. diseases: 215; N. variants: 6
Source: BEFREE ×
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FAS) is highly expressed in many kinds of human cancers, including liver cancer. 23821378 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The growth-inhibitory effects of FAS inhibitors cerulenin and C75 were then investigated on these cancer cell lines, particularly the human melanoma A-375. 17904792 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Accordingly, fatty acid synthase (FAS) plays a crucial role in cancer cell survival and proliferation; thus, we examined the signaling pathways involving FAS. 20126469 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Natural products inhibiting fatty acid synthase are potential therapeutic agents to treat cancer. 27291048 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE We speculate that the role played by FAS either in cancer development or in human brain development has created this selective pressure, although we cannot rule out the various other functions of FAS. 16154299 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Does endogenous fatty acid metabolism allow cancer cells to sense hypoxia and mediate hypoxic vasodilatation? Characterization of a novel molecular connection between fatty acid synthase (FAS) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha)-related expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in cancer cells overexpressing her-2/neu oncogene. 15669079 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The fatty acid synthase (FAS) gene is significantly up-regulated in various types of cancers, and blocking the FAS expression results in apoptosis of tumor cells. 18281474 2008
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is a potential therapeutic target for treatment of cancer and obesity, and is highly elevated in 30% of HER2-overexpressing breast cancers. 22767439 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE One such cancer is cutaneous melanoma, in which the level of FASN expression is associated with tumor invasion and poor prognosis. 24964211 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is downstream of ACC, and previous studies have shown that FASN activity influences both cancer and inflammation. 28848043 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Inhibitors of FASN, such as orlistat, reportedly show antitumor effects against cancers that over-express FASN, making FASN a promising therapeutic target. 23741342 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE C75 represses <i>KIT</i> transactivation, abrogates PI3K/AKT/mTOR activation, and provides a rationale for dual blockade of KIT and FASN in treating imatinib-resistant GISTs.<i>Clin Cancer Res; 23(16); 4908-18.©2017 AACR</i>. 28442505 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Orlistat is a weight loss drug that inhibits gastric lipases, but is also a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase (FASN), which is overexpressed in many types of cancer. 28615298 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The androgen-regulated enzyme fatty acid synthase (FAS), required for de novo lipogenesis, is overexpressed in several cancers including prostate carcinoma and has been associated with aggressive disease. 12939396 2003
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Relatively little information exists on the ultimate molecular mechanisms by which the lipogenic enzyme Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS) is differentially overexpressed in a biologically aggressive subset of human malignancies. 15523670 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In this study, we evaluated FAS activity levels and the expression of its mRNA in normal colorectal mucosa and cancer tissue from patients operated for colorectal carcinoma. 17687193 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Substantial studies on fatty acid synthase (FASN) have focused on its role in regulating lipid metabolism and researchers have a great interest in treating cancer with dietary manipulation of amino acids. 27579768 2016
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is a key enzyme for de novo lipogenesis, and it has been suggested as a potential therapeutic target in cancer and obesity. 28726934 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase plays a role in cancer metabolism beyond providing fatty acids for phospholipid synthesis or sustaining elevations in glycolytic activity. 24200503 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE This review documents the rapidly changing perspectives on the function of FAS in cancer biology. 15577743 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE As the first evidence to confirm dysregulated lipid metabolism in cancer cells, the overexpression of fatty acid synthase (FAS) was observed in breast cancer patients and demonstrated the role of FAS in cancer. 30741424 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The siRNA-mediated FASN gene knockdown in RB cancer cells (Y79, WERI RB1) repressed FASN mRNA and protein expressions, and decreased cancer cell viability. 25958981 2015
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE We here report that FASN is highly and consistently expressed in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), an aggressive form of B-cell lymphoid malignancy. 22485149 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE SK-UT-1 uterine leiomyosarcomas (Ut-LMS) cells were transduced with a fatty acid synthase (FASN)-containing retroviral vector to recapitulate the "lipogenic phenotype of cancer." 28654693 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Higher FAS activity in the cancer tissue was associated with higher LPL activity in the same tissue, which also predicted shorter patient survival, but LPL was the stronger predictor. 21044743 2010