Fatty acid 2-hydroxylation inhibits tumor growth and increases sensitivity to cisplatin in gastric cancer

Yizhou Yao, Xiaoqin Yang, Liang Sun, Shishuo Sun, Xiaoheng Huang, Diyuan Zhou, Tingting Li, Wei Zhang, Nada A. Abumrad, Xinguo Zhu,

EBioMedicine · 2019 · 62 citations · 37 references

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Abstract

Our results demonstrate that FA2H plays an important role in regulating Hh signaling and gastric tumor growth and suggest that (R)-2-OHFAs could be effective as nontoxic wide-spectrum drugs to promote chemosensitivity. FUND: Grants of NSF, NIH, and PAPD.

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