ReviewJournal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR2024
Why make it if you can take it: review on extracellular cholesterol uptake and its importance in breast and ovarian cancers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of statin therapy on the prognosis of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Endothelial cytochrome P450 -derived cholesterol limits angiogenesis.Redox biology · 2026Article
- Metabolome analysis identified exogenous cholesterol within lipid rafts that activate the Akt/mTOR signaling pathway in epithelial ovarian cancer.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- HOXC9 enhances cholesterol metabolism and malignancy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through ITGA10/FAK/PI3K/CREB-dependent HMGCR activation.Journal of gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Exploiting synthetic lethality in epithelial ovarian cancer: multi-dimensional approaches beyond DNA damage repair.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- [p53-SOAT1 Axis: A Novel Target for Tumor Lipid Metabolism and Therapy].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2025Review
- Bidirectional crosstalk between ER stress and lipid metabolism: From proteostasis to tumor adaptation.Cell death discovery · 2025Review
- NPC1 as a novel therapeutic target for induction of pyroptosis in cancers.Biomarker research · 2025Article
- Fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling modulates cholesterol storage in a SOAT1-dependent manner to promote mammary tumor cell invasion.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Article
- Sending the Signal to Bone: How Tumor-Derived EVs Orchestrate Pre-Metastatic Niche Formation and Skeletal Colonization.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Lipid metabolic reprograming: the unsung hero in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Prognostic value of the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) in patients with RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cholesterol homeostasis is essential for healthy mammalian cells and dysregulation of cholesterol metabolism contributes to the pathogenesis of various diseases including cancer. Cancer cells are dependent on cholesterol. Malignant progression is associated with high cellular demand for cholesterol, and extracellular cholesterol uptake is often elevated in cancer cell to meet its metabolic needs. Tumors take up cholesterol from the blood stream through their vasculature. Breast cancer grows in, and ovarian cancer metastasizes into fatty tissue that provides them with an additional source of cholesterol. High levels of extracellular cholesterol are beneficial for tumors whose cancer cells master the uptake of extracellular cholesterol. In this review we concentrate on cholesterol uptake mechanisms, receptor-mediated endocytosis and macropinocytosis, and how these are utilized and manipulated by cancer cells to overcome their possible intrinsic or pharmacological limitations in cholesterol synthesis. We focus especially on the involvement of lysosomes in cholesterol uptake. Identifying the vulnerabilities of cholesterol metabolism and manipulating them could provide novel efficient therapeutic strategies for treatment of cancers that manifest dependency for extracellular cholesterol.
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