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 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 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 Together, these results suggest that cancer cell-associated FASN regulates tumor vasculature through alteration of the profile of secreted angiogenic factors and regulation of their bioavailability. 24510238 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE While many studies have focused on the FASN enzyme in cancer biology, few studies have addressed the roles of proteins that modify FASN activity, such as S14. 25472762 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Increasing evidence indicates that FASN is highly expressed in a number of malignant tumors; it can promote the synthesis of endogenous fatty acids in tumor cells and then the synthesized fatty acids provide energy for the proliferation of tumor cells. 25231933 2014
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 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 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is overexpressed in many human cancers and associated with poor prognosis. 23208675 2013
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 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN) overexpression has also been associated with a variety of human malignancies including tumor progression, aggressiveness, and metastasis. 22723001 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE We also found MLPE can not only activate AMPK but also diminish fatty acid synthase, a molecular target for cancer inhibition. 22676643 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE FASN is a promising cancer target, whose inhibition not only abrogates lipogenesis, which is indispensable for cancer growth, but also downregulates oncogenic PI3K signaling. 21970855 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE FASN, a key enzyme of the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway, is overexpressed not only in various types of cancer, but also in premalignant conditions. 21325951 2011
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 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
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The ability of HER2 to supercharge lipogenesis (by activating regulatory circuits that activate and fuel the lipogenic enzyme FASN) while averting lipotoxicity (by promoting conversion and storage of excess FAs to triglycerides in a PPARgamma-dependent manner) supports the notion that best adapted cancer phenotypes are addicted to oncogenic lipid metabolism for cell proliferation and survival. 19782152 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Fatty acid synthase (FASN), the key lipogenic enzyme responsible for the endogenous synthesis of fatty acids, is regulated by ErbB2 and overexpressed in several human malignancies. 20604875 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The objective of this study was to determine whether downregulation of fatty acid synthase (FAS) expression and/or inhibition of its activity by the two major CLA isomers, 10t,12c and 9c,11t CLA, could contribute to their inhibitory effect on the growth of human breast (MCF-7), colon (HT-29) and prostate (LNCaP) cancer cell lines. 20043266 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The development of inhibitors of FASN activity has consequently appeared as a novel antitarget modality for treating cancer. 20973802 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Fatty Acid Synthase (FASN), a 250-kDa cytosolic multi-enzyme catalyzing eukaryotic de novo FA biogenesis, unexpectedly localizes in cancer cell culture supernatants and in the blood of cancer patients. 19032940 2009
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 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Although Cu-ATSM has clinical relevance in the PET imaging of hypoxia in many tumor types, its translation to the imaging of prostate cancer may be limited by the overexpression of FAS associated with prostatic malignancies. 18355682 2008
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 FASN, a nearly-universal druggable target in many human carcinomas and their precursor lesions, offers new therapeutic opportunities for metabolically treating and preventing cancer. 17882277 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Elevation of fatty acid synthase (FAS) in human cancers is often associated with increased tumor aggression. 17352212 2007